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IN THE NEWS....
"A Little HOPE" grants KIds Haven $5,725!
We are incredibly grateful to A Little HOPE . This grant will be used to underwrite our May Grief Symposium and provide funding for the training of our facilitators. Their mission "is to help provide grief counseling and bereavement support services to children and teens who have experienced the loss of a parent or a loved one, regardless of the circumstances of the death”.
A Little HOPE, Inc. a not for profit, publicly supported charitable foundation was founded in early 2002, as a personal response to the World Trade Center tragedy by Whitney Siderman Michaels. Whitney was on her honeymoon with her husband Evan on September 1l, 200l, far from her desk on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower. Most of the people with whom she worked died during the attacks. As she attended numerous memorial services, she witnessed many bereaved children now having to face a new reality – life without their mother or father – and wanted to find a way to offer them hope for the future. As a tribute to her friends who perished, Whitney and her husband Evan Michaels founded A Little Hope.
THANK YOU WSET ABC 13 NEWS!
ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH PROVIDES GRANT
St. John's Outreach Committee chose Kids' Haven as one of its grant recipients. Their gift has been marked for supplies. As our program is growing rapidly this money will be most needed to buy craft supplies, journals, books and materials for our facilitators. Thank you St. John's for believing in Kids' Haven!
SPRING GRIEF SYMPOSIUM PLANNED
Please save the evening of May 3rd and the day of May 4th for two events. Thursday evening from 6:30 - 8pm, Central Mental Health Marketing and Kids' Haven will host a free community talk in the Pearson Cancer Center Garden. Donna Schuurman, Executive Director of the Dougy Center, will share her expertise on how children and young adults grieve. Coffee and dessert will be served.
Friday, May 4th, an all day workshop will be held at the Pearson Cancer Center. Donna Schuurman will present four different topics, all related to children, young adults and grief. This workshop is open to anyone who works with children, and families of grieving children. There is a $95 fee for professionals/adults and a $75 fee for students. Registration will be open soon.
2ND ANNUAL
BUTTERFLY KISSES
Our second annual butterfly release and cocktail party fundraiser will be held Saturday, May 5th. More information will follow.
