Sacramento
Crisis Nurseries. Their Mission is to prevent child
abuse and neglect by providing support to families at times of crisis
through residential respite care for children from birth through age
5.
Farside Chapel's specific involvement is with a "funding" organization
called Gifted Grandma's (GG's). Membership requires a fiscal year
commitment of $300.00. As in years past, we have carried
through on our GG's membership commitment for 2007-2008.
This past year the North Nursery served 1620 children in the facility
located on Pasadena Avenue. The Nursery is currently implementing
a new program: Parent Child Interactive Therapy (PCIT), which
will help educate the parents of the children in the Nursery with
better parenting and coping skills. Also, the Nursery is starting
a "Baby Boutique" with gently used clothing, toys and equipment for the
benefit of parents whose children are at the Nursery.
La Sierra
Guild. One of 14 guilds who raise funds for Children's Hospital of
Central California. The La Sierra Guild membership is comprised
of women and men in the mountain communities surrounding the
hospital. In 2008 the Child Abuse Prevention Program Endowment
has been approved by "all guilds" to raise $1,000,000 over the next two
years. Funding will be utilized for improving Valley Childrens'
Suspected Child Abuse & Neglect Team (SCAN); Medical director
leadership; Team administration coordination support; Social workers
coordination; Formalized child protection policies; Legislative
advocacy & public prevention education efforts; Child maltreatment
education reaching the broader community - pediatricians, child
protective services, law enforcement, etc.; Research studies;
Development of funding and reimbursement opportunities.
Craycroft
Youth Center. A much needed branch of
the Fresno Rescue Mission. The "Rescue the Children" Craycroft
Youth Center is a 30-day emergency shelter for abandoned, abused and
neglected children who are picked up by Child Protective Services and
placed in the Center. They provide a safe and secure
environment for children who experience one, some, all of these
conditions:
Living in a house without electricity, water or food
Left home alone for hours and sometimes days at a
time
Present while spouses abuse and even kill one
another.
Whose parent commits suicide.
Being physically and mentally abused.
Unprotected from child molestation.
Whose parents are arrested.
In 2008, the Fresno
Rescue Mission's Board Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer awarded us
a coveted Certificate of Appreciation for graciously extending
compassion to homeless and poor men, women, and children in our
community. "This service that you perform is not only supplying
the needs of God's people but is also overflowing in many expressions
of thanks to God."
~2 Corinthians 9:12 (NIV)
Beads
of Courage. A resilience-based intervention designed to support and
strengthen the protective resources in children coping with cancer.
Through the program children tell their story using colorful beads as
meaningful symbols of courage that commemorate milestones they have
achieved along their unique treatment path. In 2006, Farside Chapel
donated over $300.00 to further this remarkable, innovative, national
outreach.
Warming
Grace. Our granny squares in pinks and purples were sewn into one
of the blankets delivered to the Canadian Children's Hospital, and
honoring Grace, a very young girl battling leukemia.
Warm Up
America. In 2007 we have been warming Central Californians, one
head at a
time. Saint Agnes, Fresno, California, has a senior day care center.
The elderly have cold heads when confined indoors due to health
problems and risks. We met forty of the most delightful patients. They
each made a personal hat selection from the mounds of hats we ladies
knitted and crocheted. Their warm smiles and cozy heads said all we
needed to hear in our hearts.
Yarn Farm. The central California chapter of
Head Huggers which is a national non-profit organization that is
comprised of volunteers ages 10-90 who crochet, knit, and sew caps and
give them away. In 2006 and 2007 we have given away several hundred
handmade hats to sick, injured, poor, abused, or forgotten children and
adults. We shall never forget the appreciation they have shared with
us. Their gratitude reminds us that we are making a difference by
sharing our time, and talents.
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internet donations can be accomplished for any one, or all, of the
non-profit organizations listed on this website at the Network for Good.
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