Mercy Street FRCä (A program of CHAC, funded by FIRST 5)
June News at Mercy
Street FRCä
Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Cupertino Family Resource
Centers
CHAC’s FIRST 5
Partnership to Continue!
We are
thrilled to announce that the FIRST 5 Commission has approved CHAC as the
grantee to continue offering the high quality Family Resource Center programs
you’ve grown to love in Northern/Northwestern Santa Clara County.
Our current
contract ends June 30 and we are planning for new programming. Please see our summer
schedule changes below for details, and do check back with us for any additions
or changes.
Thanks again
for all of your support and encouragement –come celebrate with us at our annual
Volunteer Appreciation Picnic on June 18 (details below).
Aloha! Volunteer Recognition
and Community Party
“Ohana” means family and we consider all of
you our FAMILY! Thank you, for your continual support for our program over the
past 5 years.We are heading into summer, Hawaiian style! Feel free to come dressed in your best Hawaiian attire. Please join CHAC/FIRST 5 Staff to celebrate all our AMAZING Volunteers!
We invite everyone who will be attending to bring a dish to share with the community (we kindly ask that you defer from sugary items. Also, as part of being Soda-Free, we ask that you please do not bring soda).
Kids are most definitely welcome! Remember to wear sun protection. Also, bring an EXTRA pair of clothes for your children. Ortega park has a water play area.
We have reserved the PICNIC #1 area. It is near the play areas: http://sunnyvale.ca.gov/Portals/0/Sunnyvale/DCS/Parks/OrtegaParkr02.pdf
To our Volunteers, it would be wonderful if you can all attend, because during the event, we will honor all our amazing volunteers for their dedication and hard work serving the community. This will be a great opportunity for the community to come and honor the work of non-paid staff.
We hope to see you there!
Mahalo!
Run / Walk for CHAC Mercy Street Family Resource Center
We are inviting you to join CHAC/Mercy Street Family Resource Center at this year’s Sevathon, July 12th at Bayland Park, Sunnyvale. Our goal is to raise a minimum of $5,000 to support our Family Resource Center & satellite sites so we can continue providing classes, linkage to community services, and opportunities for families to connect, as well as enhancing our program to meet community needs.
Sevathon is a walkathon that brings non-profit organizations together to strengthen their communities. It enables non-profit organizations to deliver their message and further their cause. We hope you will join us in reaching our goal. If you are not able to participate in Sevathon walk/run you can support us with a donation to our cause.
Please help make a difference in our community by contributing to the success of CHAC/Mercy Street Family Resource Center:
Steps to register for Sevathon walk/run
1. Click on Sevathon (upper right conner)
2. Register for the event (select activity: 5k/10k/Half Marathon or Yoga)
3. Select CHAC as you Sevathon 2015 Non-profit partner
4. Enter required information to complete registration
Donation
Summer Schedule Changes
Please stay tuned and
contact us to find out what will happen to classes after June 30. Our Google
calendars will remain up to date and we will email subscribers to let you know
when classes resume.
In the meantime, the
following classes are going on summer break:
Vargas
- Last class for spring is on Friday, June 12.
- All classes on break until August.
Canon
- All classes on break until the week of August 17.
Escuela
- Normal schedule unless we must temporarily suspend activity.
Mercy
- Normal schedule unless we must temporarily suspend activity.
- Triple P Special Summer Series
Mondays: June 8, 15 & 22 at 10:00am to 12:00pmRegistration and childcare requests required 3 days before attendance of each workshop.Please call (650) 967-4813 or e-mail mercystreetfrc@gmail.com to register.
- Family Stressbusters/The Little Village (non-FIRST 5 class) will run on Tuesdays, July 7 – August 25 at 10:00am-12:00pm. Please see the information below for details.
- Triple P Special Summer Series Offers Ideas for Your Toughest Parenting Challenges.
Learn ways to respond to issues like tantrums, disobedience & whining using positive parenting Triple P skills. Children ages 3-5 will enjoy crafts, stories and games while parents learn.
Mondays: June 8, 15 & 2210:00am-12:00pmCost: FreeRegistration is required by Friday, June 5: 650-967-4813 or mercystreetfrc@gmail.com
New! Family
Stressbusters & The Little Village offered in Summer!
If you like our “I’m
Ready for Kindergarten” series, you won’t want to miss our Family Stressbusters
& The Little Village class this summer.
Parents and children
(ages 3-5) will have their own classrooms.
Parents
will learn how reducing stress can:
- Create more ease and joy in your family.
- Help you have more patience as a parent
- Improve your child’s mood and behavior
Kids
will learn:
- How to make friends
- What are feelings?
- What do I do when feelings get BIG?
Dates/Time: Tuesdays 10:00-12:00, July 7 – August
25
Cost: $229 for parent and one child, $80
for each additional child
$149 for parents only (parents may
attend without children present, but children must have one parent present.)
New! Parenting
Playfully Workshop Helps Parents Invent Creative Solutions to Parenting
Challenges
We have the best
intentions
We’ve read the books and
taken the parenting classes
We had all these ideas
before we were parents…and yet…
We can still get stumped
and stuck, because kids and most of life are UNPREDICTABLE! As much as we wish
there were a manual, life and day-to-day parenthood come without a script!
This workshop playfully
introduces the application of the Improv principles, skills and tools to
parenting. This innovative work by Sue Walden of ImprovWorks! And Maddi Pascua
ATR, will get your creative juices flowing for how to handle the challenges of
parenting with fun and spontaneity.
Date: Saturday, September 12
Time: 9:30am – 5:00pm
Location: CHAC, 590 W. El Camino Real (training
room), Mountain View, CA 94040
Cost: $175 per person
This full day workshop
includes lunch. Proceeds will support our Family Resource Center program.
Learn More About
Stress Reduction
Here is a presentation
by Brandy Vanderheiden, MFT, SEP about reducing stress in families. She is one
of the co-developers of the Family Stressbusters and Little Village classes.
Click hereà https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y3jU8f20B4
A special thank you to all of the people who
have donated to our Family Resiliency Program (aka Family Stressbusters), so
that we can offer this helpful information to our community. Katie U., Ellen
B., Kristen M., Candace M., Yvonne L., Katie M., Neal W., Mike C., Deborah B.,
Suzanne S., Phyllis S., Julia G., [Maddi’s friends]
THANK YOU!
We very much appreciate all of you who kindly
give us gently used clothing, supplies and toys for our classrooms. In order to make sure that we have adequate space
and good use for your donations, please call us first at (650) 967-4813 before
bringing your donations to our centers.
Thank you!
If you would like to make a donation for
supplies, our Amazon Wish List is on the side bar. Monetary donations can be directed
to Program Director Maddi Pascua, made out to CHAC and mailed to: 748 Mercy
Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
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Feedback: Do you have comments that you would like to send the staff? Please send us a note to:mercystreetfrc@gmail.com
