span katrina kids calendar

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FYI:

I just received this e-mail from Autin, SPAN Executive Co-Director

Hey ya'll -

There is a wonderful Katrina calendar with drawings by evacuee kids for sale

for $10.00 each. You can order them from the wonderful woman, Helen Hudson,

who created and produced them in Virginia. See below for address and

shipping costs. The donation will go directly to benefit Turning Point

Partners which is beginning to do work in trauma healing.

Here's the story of how they came to be:

Turning Point Partners (TPP) is a group that is led by Handley and Lou

Furman. The two of them have been doing restorative justice work with youth

in Louisiana courts, schools and correctional facilities for five years. I

am on their board.

When Katrina hit, Jean's home was filled with water to the ceiling. She

evacuated to Memphis to live with her sister and began to reach out. Jean

has had a longtime association with Eastern Mennonite University in

onburg, Virginia. She began to dialogue with them about adapting

their STAR program- Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Recovery (started to

respond to 9-11) to this natural disaster. Ten of us went to Virginia a

few weeks ago to work on this project. STAR, through Jean's influence, is

shifting to include more experiential and artistic modalities in the

presentation of trauma healing.

Helen, one of the associates at EMU-STAR (a clinical social worker and

artist), wanted to do some direct help and offered to produce a calendar

that would benefit TPP's efforts. We put out a call, got some wonderful

drawings from evacuee kids in Atlanta and Dallas. She found a printer who

donated his work - and now there are 500 copies of a beautiful Katrina Kids

calendar available. Again, all donations will go directly to support TPP.

Folks in Atlanta, Dallas, Birmingham, Lafayette and here in New Orleans are

beginning to offer " Circles of Hope. " TPP will soon offer training for

trainers and community leaders in trauma recovery. In the 3rd week of

January, a workshop in theater and trauma healing will also be offered.

Thanks for reading this far! My best to each of you and hopes for a deep

recovery of this city and the people here and in the diaspora, nna

Send Checks made payable to Turning Point Partners to:

Helen Hudson

1416 Valley St./onburg, VA 22801

$10 each + ,Postage amounts:

1 calendar--$1.50; 2--$2.00;3--$3.00;

4-10--$4;11--$5.50;12--$6.00;13--$7.00;14-20 $8

1. Please send this e-mail on through your email list, with a note as to

how you know me or my family and friends, etc., so that people know this is

" ligit " .

2. Please buy as many calendars as you can afford at $10 per calendar plus

postage.

For more information, contact Helen at : HNamlitt@...

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR GENEROSISTY, Blessings, Helen Hudson

For further information on Turning Point Partners go to

http://www.turningpointpartners.com

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nna D. Padgett, LCSW, Ph.D.

504-865-7143 (home)

225-284-0418 (cell)

My friend, Mark , wrote this....

" send us your hearts, send us your poet laureate, send us every last

compassionate conservative, help us rebuild our levees - get the Dutch!,

help us protect our coast and restore our wetlands, help us rebuild our

housing stock without exploiting us, help us clean our land, give us phone

service, mail service, stoplights, notice our power company declared

bankruptcy, bring in planners, listen to our visionaries - not just the

official ones, ignore media misinformation, be our friend, feel our tears,

be our family, be our nation. Please, hold us in your prayers. "

MTK Autin

Executive Co-Director

Statewide Parent Advocacy Network

35 Halsey Street

Newark, NJ 07102

973-642-8100 x 105

diana.autin@...

http://www.spannj.org/

Home of Region I Parent TA Center

Parent Training & Information Center

Family to Family Health Information & Resource Center

Family WRAP: Project CARE, Family Voices, Parent to Parent

Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health Chapter

NJ Inclusive Child Care Project

Statewide Technical Assistance Resources Team

Transition to Adult Life/Champions for Progress

Healthy Adolescent Partnership

Training Calendar Website

Violence Prevention/Family Strengthening Project