On Saturday, September 8, 2007 in Lacey, Washington approximately 2000 people gathered to show their support for military families. The event was sponsored by the Hawks Prairie Rotary Club. All proceeds from the event went to support local military families in need. Over $50000 was raised for the families. Jason Hearn, a candidate for Lacey City Council, and some of his supporters were among the participants.
The Friends Programme is a highly successful, innovative and unique volunteer service designed to work in partnership with professionals to provide volunteer family support to New Communities (Refugees, Asylum Seekers and EU Immigrants) in Coventry.
Catholic Community Services is a non-profit, faith-based organization serving children, youth, adults and families with special needs in the Mid-Willamette Valley and Central Oregon Coast. Founded in Salem in 1938, CCS offers more than twenty programs providing Family Support Services; Independent Living Services; and Community Homes for children in long term foster care and for adults with developmental disabilities. We serve more than 4000 people annually and employ 250 members of our community. Dedicated to providing the highest quality services and research-based practices, CCS is accredited by the National Council on Accreditation for Child and Family Services. Our mission: empowered people. Our core values: love, justice, truth and freedom Our stand: a forever home for everyone.
Gateway to the Arts, a Pittsburgh-based non-profit, collaborated with the Family Support Policy Board to put teaching artists into 16 Family Support Centers throughout Allegheny County. Video by Curtis Reaves.
Jeffrey S. Kreutzer, PhD, ABPP, is the Rosa Schwarz Cifu Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Medical College of Virginia Campus. There, he is also a professor of Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. Dr. Kreutzer serves as Director of Virginia’s federally designated Traumatic Brain Injury Model System and coordinates VCU Health System outpatient services for families and persons with brain injury. For the last two decades, he has been active in implementing empirically based vocational rehabilitation, psychological support, cognitive rehabilitation, and family support programs. Dr. Kreutzer has co-authored nearly 150 peer-reviewed publications, most in the area of traumatic brain injury and rehabilitation. Co-Editor-in-Chief of the international journals Brain Injury and Neurorehabilitation, he has also published a dozen books focused on topics including vocational rehabilitation, community integration, behavior management, and cognitive rehabilitation. Currently, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of the soon to be published by Springer, New York, Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Taryn M. Stejskal, PhD is a licensed marriage and family therapist and an Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training (ARRT) postdoctoral research fellow at Virginia Commonwealth Medical University (VCU) in the division of neuropsychology in the department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM& R). She received her masters degree in Marriage …
This video deals with the difficulties the family experiences when a family member is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
Actor Augustine speaks about his film career, acting in this episode of ‘Chit Chat’. www.istream.in
The UCSD Cancer Center presents Webcast #2 with Dr. Matthew Loscalzo. He discusses Patient and Family Support. This is part 1 of 3 videos.