This week, our featured charity is Third Level Crisis Intervention Center.
Third Level Crisis Intervention Center’s mission is to help youth, adults, and families to grow, change, and thrive during times of crisis and life transitions. Their 24 hour crisis telephone line and walk in services focus on: crisis intervention, counseling, suicide prevention and intervention, information and referral services, after hours mental health emergency services access, follow up counseling in furtherance of suicide prevention. The Art Van grant will help fund Pete’s Place Youth Shelter that provides temporary emergency shelter for up to 21 days for runaway, homeless and at risk youth, age 14-17.
This week, our featured charity is Yatooma’s Foundation For The Kids.
Bringing Tenderness To Tragedy and turning tragedy to triumph for the families of kids who have lost a parent by providing practical, professional, and personal assistance at each stage of the grieving and recovery process. This Foundation is dedicated in honor and loving memory of Manuel S. Yatooma (1947-1993).
The sudden loss of a parent triggers a broad range of family crises that may take years to surmount. Through partnerships with business professionals and social service organizations, Yatooma’s Foundation For The Kids assembles a team of volunteers to meet each family’s unique needs throughout each phase of their grieving and recovery process.
This week our featured charity is the Woman’s Caring Program.
The Women’s Caring Program (WCP) began in 1979 as a circle of friends who met at the home of WCP Founder Carol Walters. As time passed, this growing group of women became especially concerned about the childcare needs of working families. They created the Women’s Caring Program in 1995 and launched the ChildCare Commitment program. The statewide ChildCare Commitment program was created to help disadvantaged and working poor families not eligible for child care payment from another funding source. It gives tuition assistance for children from birth to five years for quality care and early education. WCP works to break the cycle of poverty by promoting academic achievement early in the life of a child. Awards are distributed on a statewide basis with priority focus in regions with high population density and corresponding poverty levels. More than 1,000 families in 64 of Michigan’s 83 counties have been helped with awards. The group’s mission is to serve as leaders for supporting children and families on the road to independence through early childhood development.
This week, our featured charity is Yatooma’s Foundation For The Kids.
Bringing Tenderness To Tragedy and turning tragedy to triumph for the families of kids who have lost a parent by providing practical, professional, and personal assistance at each stage of the grieving and recovery process. This Foundation is dedicated in honor and loving memory of Manuel S. Yatooma (1947-1993).
The sudden loss of a parent triggers a broad range of family crises that may take years to surmount. Through partnerships with business professionals and social service organizations, Yatooma’s Foundation For The Kids assembles a team of volunteers to meet each family’s unique needs throughout each phase of their grieving and recovery process.
This week, our featured charity is Variety, The Children’s Charity.
The generous grant support received from Art Van allowed Variety to continue to reach out to more than 15,000 children in need in our community. Grant funds were used in support of the Variety Myoelectric Center to benefit children to live fuller and more productive lives. Once the amazing “miracle limb” is put on a child, there is a tremendous physiological change which immediately leads to a more normal life.
Art Van’s support has enabled us to continue our mission to serve children by assisting children in the costs of myoelectric prostheses and to provide hope and opportunity for children with special needs in our community.
The grant funds were used in support of the The Variety Produce Rescue Mission Program which provides healthy, nutritional food to children. Many needy people don’t get any fresh vegetables or fruit and perishables are hard for agencies to handle and hard to get to people, so what we are strive to do through this program is close the loop. Variety’s goal for the Produce Rescue Mission has been to provide healthy, nutritional food to children who otherwise might go to bed hungry. With the help of Art Van, this year we were able to provide thousands of children and their families with much needed nutritional food.
The funds were also used to support the Variety K.I.D.S. (Kids in Distressed Situations) Program. This program provides coats, clothing, shoes, books, toys, and school supplies to children to keep them safe and healthy. This program provides children with a sense of pride and dignity.
This week, our featured charity is The First Day Shoe Fund.
The First Day Shoe Fund’s mission is to provide new shoes to children in grades K – 2 in the Kalamazoo Public School system who qualify for free and/or reduced lunch as set by the Federal government. The Art Van grant will go towards shoes for 2011 distribution.
This week, our featured charity is Special Kids Inc.
Special Kids offers individual, specialized therapies and services to children with developmental and learning disabilities. Special Kids focuses on providing quality and affordable therapeutic programs to children in need. Special Kids has been providing these important and vital programs since 2002. We believe in helping the kids who need it the most!
This week, our featured charity is the The Andre’ Bosse Center.
The Andre’ Bosse Center was created in response to the brutal abduction and murder of 11 year old Andre’ Bosse. The Center has gone on to become the first rural child advocacy center in Michigan to be accredited by the National Children’s Alliance. The Art Van Grant will help fund assessment and treatment services.
This week, our featured charity is The Bottomless Toy Chest.
The Bottomless Toy Chest, Inc. is devoted to delivering art projects, crafts and interactive toys to hospitalized pediatric cancer patients. Their mission is to promote a positive state of mind in young cancer patients by providing them with empowering, engaging activities. The Art Van grant will help provide emotional support for pediatric cancer patients.
This week, our featured charity is Association for the Blind & Visually Impaired.
Association for the Blind & Visually Impaired’s mission is to promote the independence of people who are visually impaired and to promote the prevention of blindness. The Art Van Grant will help with vision loss, prevention and rehabilitation.