FOSTER CARE AUXILIARY NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2011 |
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JOY!! |
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You Are Amazing!
You are an amazing group of individuals who choose to make your family from others children. I hope the holidays has brought and will bring comfort and joy to you and those you care about and that your family (whomever that may encompass this year) feels the love you share with them. Here’s to Foster and Adoptive Families making a difference – and to a happy and meaningful 2011!
New board roster
Welcome 2011 Board!
Download the new board roster
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FCAOC MEMBERSHIP |
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Full membership privileges!
New members get full membership privileges starting immediately included in their 2011 membership!
Download the application form
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SUPPORT / TRAINING |
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‘Book Club’ style training and support
January 3 • Introduction • Foster Care: Making a Difference for America’s Children
Please join us for this ‘book club’ style training and support group in 2011. You may sign up now!
Participants will meet monthly to review and discuss specific chapters of the Boys Town Press’ book, Practical
Tools for Foster Parents. A copy will be given to each participant at the first meeting. Participation at all
6 meetings is encouraged. Parents will discuss Boys Town’s approach to foster care in the 21st century, which focuses on teaching skills, building relationships, and empowering kids through teaching them self-discipline and self-control. During these six months, foster parents learn how to provide a safe home for kids and how to deal with their behaviors –
both positive and negative.
Meetings: • Various Mondays • 9 am – 11 am • Free Book
Foster Parent Book Club & Support Group
Download the flyer
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CELL PHONE FUNDRAISER DRIVE |
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DANCE! DANCE! DANCE! |
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WW Dance Company of Anaheim
is pleased to offer a partnership program for families of the Foster Care Auxiliary. Reduced tuition and scholarships are available! You do so much for your foster child, now you have a way to bring them fun, affordable dance lessons that help them build social skills, learn a performing art and become more confident! Our studio is located on Magnolia just south of Lincoln in West Anaheim. Offer is available for single students or siblings, so apply for consideration now.
Just visit our website at www.wwdanceco.com and select the scholarship option on our registration form.
Rachel Strong, Owner, WW Dance Company,
Anaheim, CA
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RALPH'S |
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BABY GEAR! |
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YAHOO GROUPS |
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Don’t miss out on our opportunities and give aways!
You need to be signed up to receive messages from the Yahoo group that I post opportunities on! Please join the site. You do need a yahoo email account (free) but you can forward it whatever your usual email address is. It’s easy for you and easy for me to get word of these special offers to you. If you are having trouble, see if you can get questions answered from their tech support, ask a computer whiz teen neighbor or relative, or ask me and I’ll do my best to help. It really is important – I don’t want anyone to miss these great offers! (see below for the link)
Be Sure to Join our Yahoo Group site to get the Latest Info from Us!
You will continue to get the newsletter emailed to you, but all other mass correspondence that goes out to our Foster Care Auxiliary Group will be posted to this group site and you will be notified (if you choose) of the posting. (You can have the email from the group forwarded to your regular email account)
Click to join FosterCareAux
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FOSTER CARE TOOLBAR! |
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We have our own
Customized toolbar!
Please make every gift count this holiday season. More than 1,600 top stores including Amazon, Toys R Us, Best Buy, Apple, Gap and more will donate a percentage of virtually every sale to The Foster Care Auxiliary.
Just go to GoodShop.com, designate us as the cause you support and then click over to your favorite store. You pay nothing extra - and you can even save money as GoodShop lists thousands of money-saving coupons and free shipping offers.
Or, add our toolbar to your browser at http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar - and your purchases will count even if you forget to go to GoodShop first! There's no easier way to support us this holiday season! Please spread the word
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MEMBER DISTRIBUTION DAYS |
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*Please note the following changes concerning Distribution Days:
We understand that childcare can be difficult to find and not always convenient for your trip to the Auxiliary for distribution day. To be fair to everyone and to help members not able to make care provisions for their children, a pre-made box of selections will be given to any member who cannot come without their precious little ones starting in November. Alternatives might be to ‘buddy up’ with another shopper and ‘swap’ childcare while you are in the center. I’d be happy to keep a list of parents that are interested in this. Children should never be left unsupervised in the store.
January Distribution Days:
FOCUS MEMBERS:
Jan 3 (Monday) 11am -1pm (Training Support ‘Book Club’ meets right before at 9- please join us!)
Jan 4 (Tuesday) 11:00am -1pm
Jan 8 (Saturday) 9:00am -2pm By Appointment only
SUPPORTING MEMBERS:
Jan 7: 11:00am -1pm
Jan 8: 11:00am -1pm
You can always check the Foster Care Auxiliary Calendar for our plans http://calendar.yahoo.com/fostercareaux
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QUESTIONS? COMMENTS? |
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Contact Us!
I’d love to hear any questions or comments from you!
Kathy Harvey, President, Foster Care Auxiliary
FosterCareAux@yahoo.com
714 778-3383
333 S. Brookhurst (between Orange and Broadway) in Anaheim
www.FosterCareAux.com
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