Baby items

I had several people give me decent baby items. Let me know if you want any.
1. carriage for infant car seat. (frame, car seat goes in it)
2. double Stroller- front is regular seat, back is a 1/2 seat for an older child
3. 2 portable folding swings. The small kind
4. baby bath
5. 1 bouncey seats
6. Carriage- nice regular type carriage.

I am also expecting a few more things this week including a pack and play

Merry Christmas!

Just wanted to wish you a very Merry Christmas!
Thank you so much for the great care you give our children!

Disney on Ice Discounted Tickets

 

FINALLY I have an answer!!

 

Ok so the show in December is at the Agganis Arena this year, not TD Garden.

They no longer have me buy them ahead but send me coupons so you can buy your own tickets (each coupon is good for up to 6 tickets)

They were supposed to be sent a week ago Monday but I never got them.  They Fed-Ex’d new ones so I assume I will have Monday.

 

My Understanding (so don’t quote me or yell if I am wrong) is that the coupons entitle you to up to six tickets at the rate of $15. 

It is also my understanding that the tickets are goof for shows next Thursday and Friday only.

 

Please let me know if you need tickets.  Let me know if you want to pick up or have me mail.  If you want them mailed please provide address if you are not my home.

Also keep in mind the timing issue on mailing!  They are only good (I understand) for next Thursday and Friday.  

 

 

 

Check out our blog!!!   http://capeanndss.blogspot.com/

 

Carla King

Foster Parent Recruiter

Department of Children and Families (formerly known as Dept Social Services)

Cape Ann Area Office

45 Congress Street, bldg #4

Salem, MA 01970

978-825-3862   direct DCF ext 33862

 

 

 

DISCOUNTS Edaville USA Consignment Code

 

 

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The Consignment Ticket Discount is good for all events except Day Out With
Thomas, Polar Express and Saturdays in December during our Christmas Festival of Lights.

If you need any more information feel free to give me a call

Thank you for your interest in Edaville USA and enjoy your day!

Take care,

Tammy Garnett

(508) 866-8190  x14
Tgarnett@edaville.com

FW: Please read! Foster youth scholarship- MLK

 

 

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From: Hubbard, Jennifer (DCF)
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 11:48 AM
To: DSS-DL - CapeAnn Users; DSS-DL - Lynn Users
Subject: FW: Please read! Foster youth scholarship- MLK

 

Hi everyone,

I sent the following email to several foster youth that I have emails for.

Could you please check in with your foster youth who are high school seniors or are already in college?

This scholarship is for MA DCF foster youth only and no one has applied as of yet.  Deadline is fast approaching.

Thank you!

Jen

 

Jennifer Hubbard

Adolescent Outreach Worker

Cape Ann/Lynn DCF

978-825-3918

 

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From: Hubbard, Jennifer (DCF)
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 11:45 AM
Subject: Please read! Foster youth scholarship- MLK

 

Hi everyone,

 

I am sending you this information regarding four scholarships that will be awarded to Mass foster youth to honor Martin Luther King day.

Four educational scholarships will be awarded ($1500, $1000, AND 2 FOR $750) at the HOPE

Worldwide MLK Day celebration on January 19, 2014, to help defray the cost of fees and books

to three young men or women who will attend (or who are already attending) school after high

school graduation.

The deadline for youth to apply is midnight, January 5^th, the winners will be notified and must attend the celebration event .

 

Information attached. Please to apply as soon as possible!

 

Thank you!

Jen

Free Infant class

 

Hi Carla, 

 

I am going to offer a Free introductory class in wenham this weekend if you would kindly forward, much appreciated.  It does require pre-registration or class will be cancelled. (I also attached some details for you)

 

Where: Insideout Health & Wellness 162 Main st., Wenham, ma.

Who: Mom, Dad, Expectant parent(s), Caregiver

What: For babies 6wks to 1 yr old, you will massage your own baby, or bring a doll to practice on. 

What to bring: pillow or cushion to sit on floor, baby blanket you don't mind possible oil stains, anything baby needs.

 

Pick ONE of the two dates for this free introductory class.
Saturday December 14th, 3:30-5:00 pm
Sunday December 15th 11:00-12:30 pm

Pre-registration is required, space limited Please call: 
Vickie G. at 978-468-4294 or cell 978675-6429 to register.

 

 

 

Vickie Greenaway, LMT
Insideout Health & Wellness    
162 Main St. Wenham, MA
978-468-4294

Massage Therapist, Fitness Foam Roller Instructor

For appointments available click: BOOK NOW 

 

 

Training for Wednesday is CANCELLED

 

 

A small request from a foster parent

 

 

As you are aware, we did not have the Helicopter Santa Party this year as the owner of MAC and helicopter chauffer to Santa found out before the party last year that his body was consumed with cancer.  Today, a year later he is still fighting his battle.  Sue Genovese, a foster parent thought it would be a wonderful idea to have all the kids send him cards!

 

So her request is simple.  Please have the child in your home send a get well or Christmas card to John to let him know we are thinking of him. Please send this week.  Deadline to receive them is Dec 20^th.

 

Sue and I will be hand delivering them to him and wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could fill a huge Santa sack with them! (or better yet maybe Santa can come with us to deliver!!!)

 

 

cards can be given to me, or sent to :

Sue Genovese

56 Granite St

Gloucester, MA 01930

Shopping Night

Shopping night for foster parents

 

Please come to the Salem DCF office on Monday Dec 16^th 6-8pm

 

We will have gifts for each child in your home as well as new books and more.

 

This to help supplement gifts under the tree.

 

Please RSVP with childrens genders and ages (your own children included)

 

 

Check out our blog!!!   http://capeanndss.blogspot.com/

 

Carla King

Foster Parent Recruiter

Department of Children and Families (formerly known as Dept Social Services)

Cape Ann Area Office

45 Congress Street, bldg #4

Salem, MA 01970

978-825-3862   direct DCF ext 33862

 

 

 

FW: From advocates community counseling - Teen Choices Group

FYI

 

Attached please find a resource for teens experiencing relationship/peer challenges.

 

Teen Choices Group

Managing the ups and downs of teen relationships

A group for those who have been or are experiencing being picked on

Through Yoga, peer support and skill building you will learn: 

• Facts about bullying
• Social-emotional skills to improve your situation
• How to take charge of your own emotional and physical safety
• How to explore, identify and support personal values
• How to tolerate distressful situations
• How to build better interpersonal skills to improve ability to make healthy friendships

 

When
Wednesdays 6:15 pm- 7:30 p.m

 

Where
Advocates Community Counseling
354 Waverly Street, 2^nd floor, Framingham

Facilitator
Keri Van Beek, LICSW

 

Most Insurance Accepted

To sign up call (508) 661-2020

To sign up call (508) 661-2020

 

Judi Maguire

Parent Support Coordinator

Wayside Youth and Family

118 Central Street

Waltham MA 02453

judi_maguire@waysideyouth.org

Building Strength, Hope and Resiliency

 

 

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FW: Patriots tickets for this Sunday's game!

 

 

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From: Patty [mailto:oden80@msn.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 10:42 AM
To: King, Carla (DCF)
Subject: Patriots tickets for this Sunday's game!

 

Hi everyone!

We have 4 tickets available to this weekend's Patriot's game (Sun., Dec. 8) against Cleveland Browns. The 4 tickets are in Sec 330, Row 20, seats 19-22 and are $127/ticket. First come, first served. Call or text @ (978)804-9788.

Hope everyone is well!

~Patty
 

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FW: MLK flyer

 

 

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From: Lerman-Caruso, Saf (DCF)
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 11:45 AM
To: Fultz, Toni (DCF); Brown, Evelena (DCF); Mendez, Luz (DCF); Headrick, Barbara (DCF); Narcisse, Linda (DCF); Morin, David (DCF); King, Carla (DCF); Cosgrove, Andrea (DCF); Hamelin, Linda (DCF); DSS-DL - Family Resource APM's; DSS-DL - Family Resource Sups; DSS-DL - Area Clinical Managers; DSS-DL - APMs
Cc: Banks, Michelle (DCF)
Subject: FW: MLK flyer

 

Hi,

 

I am sending you this information regarding four scholarships that will be awarded to our youth to honor Martin Luther King day.

Four educational scholarships will be awarded ($1500, $1000, AND 2 FOR $750) at the HOPE

Worldwide MLK Day celebration on January 19, 2014, to help defray the cost of fees and books

to three young men or women who will attend (or who are already attending) school after high

school graduation.

The deadline for youth to apply is midnight, jan. 5, the winners will be notified and must attend the celebration event .

 

Information attached. Please, help and encourage youth to apply

 

thanks saf

 

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From: Deborah Drake [mailto:qwdrake@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 9:34 AM
To: Banks, Michelle (DCF); Lerman-Caruso, Saf (DCF)
Subject: MLK flyer

Hi Michelle and Saf,

 

I am sending the flyer in another format, because I think it did not copy correctly the last time I sent it.

 

Thanks!

 

Debbie

I'm Thankful!

Better late than never! I tried to send this last Wednesday but could not access my foster home list. My desk was under water! Still a bit soggy but able to pop on to send a few emails!

 

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From: King, Carla (DCF) [mailto:carla.king@massmail.state.ma.us]
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 3:37 PM
To: King, Carla (DCF)
Subject: I'm Thankful!

 

Hi all!

 

I just wanted to send a note to wish you all of you that celebrate a wonderful Thanksgiving!   I am thankful to each and every one of you for the love and care you give our children each day!

 

I also want to wish those that celebrate Hanukah a wonderful start to your holiday!

 

 

December Support Group

 

 

With the Holiday season in full swing, it will be nice to have a few hours to relax and have a few laughs. Hope you can make it to the group. Please RSVP for directions.

                                                                            Thanks. Gerrie

                                                                

PLEASE RSVP to party!

You don’t have to RSVP if you are not coming, but if you are, please let me know ASAP.  IM shopping black Friday so I need to know by noon Wed. But the earlier the better for me!

Thanks!

Carla

 

 

Please join us!

 

For our Annual Foster Family Holiday Party!

 

Sponsored by the local Rotary clubs with help from All Saints Church!

 

Saturday December 14th

1:00

Beverly High School Field House

 

Come enjoy food, fun and conversation with other foster families while the kids enjoy snacks, activities, a balloon artist and a magician and of course a visit from the one and only SANTA CLAUS who will give every child a great gift!

 

Please RSVP to Carla King 978-825-3862 or Carla.King@state.ma.us

By noon November 27th

If leaving a message, please leave children's names, gender and ages.

 

Directions will go out the week before the event.

 

** We are unable to accommodate anyone outside of the foster family at this event

 

 

 

 

Check out our blog!!!   http://capeanndss.blogspot.com/

 

Carla King

Foster Parent Recruiter

Department of Children and Families (formerly known as Dept Social Services)

Cape Ann Area Office

45 Congress Street, bldg #4

Salem, MA 01970

978-825-3862   direct DCF ext 33862

 

 

 

anyone have babies???

I have someone willing to give FIVE FREE weeks of massage class for babies.

I know many of you out there have babies now! It’s up to age 1. 

I want to feel folks out to see what interest is. She needs 5 to make a class.  Once a week.

Can you let me know if this interests you? Thanks!

 

 

New Beginnings @ Insideout Health & Wellness, 

162 Main St. Wenham, Ma  978-468-4294

 

New Beginnings was inspired by Vickie Greenaway, LMT(licensed massage therapist), CEIM (certified educator infant massage) because of her passion to share the therapeutic benefits of massage.  Touch is Baby’s first language, and the art of soothing your baby will create deep emotional bonds, it will lay the foundation for a lifetime of love, trust, courage and dependability.

 

The power of touch can relax, help with communication and development, and build confidence for the infant and caregiver through creating a stronger bond between the two. Invest in your child’s health and learn tools that will last a lifetime!

 Research has shown:

 

Benefits for Parents/caregiver

Helps parents feel more confident and competent in caring for their children
• Helps parents to ease their stress and bond with child

• Creates a regular time of intimacy between parent and child.
• Increases parents' self-esteem by reinforcing and enhancing their skills as parents, and validates their role
• Gives parents the tools for understanding their child's unique rhythms and patterns
• Teaches parents how to read their infants' cues and recognize their states of awareness

• Daily massage helps parents to unwind and relax
• Provides a positive way for fathers to interact with their infants/children

Benefits for infants, babies and children include the following:

• Provides a special time of communication that fosters love, compassion, and respect
• Improves general well-being
Improves overall functioning of the gastrointestinal tract
• Promotes relaxation and helps babies self-regulate calm, which reduces crying
• Helps to normalize muscle tone
• Improves circulation
• Enhances immune system function

Helps to improve sensory and body awareness
• Enhances neurological development
• Helps baby/child to sleep deeper and more soundly
• Helps to increase oxygen and nutrient flow to cells. Improves respiration
• Helps to improve pain managament; can relieve discomfort from teething,

• Helps with congestion, gas, and colic
• Enhances release of hormones in the body. The growth hormone can be stimulated which helps weight gain.
• Reduces levels of cortisol, the stress hormone
• Provides all of the essential indicators of intimate parent-infant bonding and attachment: eye-to-eye, touch, voice, smell, movement, and thermal regulation.
• Stimulates all of the physiological systems. Massage sparks the neurons in their brains to grow and branch out to encompass other neurons.

 

About Infant Massage Classes

classes are designed to help parents and caregivers learn massage techniques and exercises to help babies (and parents) with a wide variety of conditions. The class' primary focus will be on babies aged 6 weeks through 1 year, however the techniques can be valuable for children older than a year as well. Babies are welcome and encouraged to be brought to class so that the parent can practice the techniques right on the baby. If a baby is unavailable or unwilling to cooperate, a simulation (doll) can be used

 

For expectant parents, f you would like to attend the class as an addition to your prenatal education, you are more than welcome.

this class is still wonderful and beneficial for children over the age of one through the toddler years, however once children start moving, crawling, walking, etc - it is difficult to keep them contained and focused during the class which then distracts mom or whoever has brought the child. For older children, they are more than welcome - it simply depends on the child and how the caregiver feels the child will handle the class.

 

WHAT TO BRING: 

- A pillow or "Boppy" for the baby and a pillow or cushion for yourself to sit on
- A receiving blanket or other warm blanket in case baby gets cold
- Additional diapers just in case
- A notepad or other device for taking notes during class
- A baby (preferably yours)
- For expectant parents / grandparents / others, we will try to have enough dolls available, but if you wish you can bring a doll or a similarly shaped stuffed animal (4 limbs, torso, head).

 

TO WEAR: Comfortable, lightweight clothing (we will be sitting on the floor and the room will be heated for the baby's comfort.) Dress baby in an outfit with separate top and bottom (so we can keep one end warm while we work on the other.)

 

It was through massage Vickie found freedom from debilitated pain and improved quality of life. In 2010 she became a licensed massage therapist from SpaTech Institute in Plymouth, MA. She is passionate and dedicated to help others achieve optimal health and well-being. With her fresh and intuitive approach, she specializes in deep tissue, trigger point, pre-natal, myofascial, positional release and other modalities. Her treatment plans include client self care techniques. Vickie is a fitness foam roller instructor. She is currently working on her Doula Certification and Parent Infant Massage Educator Certification. In her free time she loves creative outlets and discovering outdoor adventures

 

 

 

Vickie Greenaway, LMT
Insideout Health & Wellness    
162 Main St. Wenham, MA
978-468-4294

Massage Therapist, Fitness Foam Roller Instructor

For appointments available click: BOOK NOW 

 

 

 

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From: carla.king@state.ma.us
To: ALarsen@pw4c.org
CC: nbwellness@live.com
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 14:12:32 -0500
Subject: RE: baby massage

Yes that was me!  I thought I could do a training here, but I can certainly offer folks to attend yours! Thanks!

 

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From: Amy Larsen [mailto:ALarsen@pw4c.org]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 2:03 PM
To: King, Carla (DCF)
Cc: nbwellness@live.com
Subject: baby massage

 

Hi Carla,

 

I had a message today on my voicemail from Vicki in regards to an email that she received from you (I think!) about offering the baby massage for foster parents.  It would be perfectly appropriate and wonderful to have any families fostering children  attend the training we are offering. 

 

Once Vicki finishes her certification she will be offering trainings in Hamilton where she practices massage.  You can follow up with her directly as to what the cost may be and if she is available to come to Salem or what have you.  She presently is doing some volunteer hours for Pathways and otherwise is quite busy with her practice and her new venture in baby/parent massage training so isn’t able to offer any additional free trainings .  If you are interested in offering it to foster parents you may consider contacting the Salem or Peabody CFCE grant coordinator (contact info on EEC website) to see if they could fund it.  We are able to use some CFCE funds in Gloucester to offer Vicki some compensation for your time and talents.

 

Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any information.

 

Warm regards,

Amy

Amy Larsen, CFCE Grant Coordinator

Pathways for Children

29 Emerson Ave.

Gloucester, MA 01930

978 281-2400 x 120

alarsen@pw4c.org

 

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FW: A Practice Update on the Department of Children and Families - Family Rounds Thursday 12-1:30 Davenport 4 Board Room, Salem Hospital

 

 

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From: mroberts2@partners.org [mailto:mroberts2@partners.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 3:13 PM
To: King, Carla (DCF)
Subject: A Practice Update on the Department of Children and Families - Family Rounds Thursday 12-1:30 Davenport 4 Board Room, Salem Hospital

 

Please post and share with families! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------     Family Rounds     A monthly series for parents and professionals    November 21, 2013 ~ 12 noon - 1:30 p.m.    "A Practice Update on the Department of Children and Families:  Engaging and Supporting Families"    Davenport 4 Board Room, Salem Hospital   The Department has implemented a new "Integrated Casework Practice Model" or ICPM. The framework is based on a set of core values and priority objectives that include Family Engagement, Improving Safety/Reducing Repeat Maltreatment and Supporting Permanency for children. Changes in our practice involve a Differential Response at the point of intake, which results in significant changes in timeframes, language and timeliness of service provision. A brief overview of these changes will be provided.   Another key element of the ICPM is the Signs of Safety framework. Social workers are trained to identify danger and safety concerns as well as protective capacities within the family and community. Safety Mapping is a concrete, visual tool that clearly identifies the impact of a caregiver's actions on a child. Sample Safety Maps will be presented at this training.   Perhaps most exciting is the growing engagement of families in the process of developing safety plans, identifying goals and expanding the use of kinship resources to support families during their DCF involvement and beyond. Parents are included in more and more meetings and planning sessions regarding their children. Greater efforts are made to engage fathers at all points during the case. Fatherhood classes and support groups are up and running in the Cape Ann office on a regular basis. Parents and foster parents are being trained in the effects of trauma on children and their parents. Community agencies are working closely with the Department to support this effort. Our Diversity Leadership Team examines how the agency meets the needs of the diverse populations we serve and where we still need improvement.   Finally, the Department has implemented a new Permanency Planning Policy which has the clear directive to 1) Safely Stabilize and Preserve Families 2) Safely Reunify Families or 3) Safely Create New Families. This means involving community and kinship supports early on in a case, serving children after they turn 18 years old and determining realistic goals earlier in the life of a family's case. The goal is to improve the well being of children by supporting safety and permanency through an integrated approach. To date, feedback suggests we are achieving this goal.       Lectures are free and held the third Thursday of the month.  Registration is necessary 978-354-2670 or ithomson@partners.org    Stay in touch with us through the NSMC Facebook page and NSMC Twitter feed!

 

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