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Wellspring’s 7th Annual Fundraising Gala – April 28, 2012
Wellspring’s 7th Annual Fundraising Gala, Saturday, April 28, 2012
Join friends of Wellspring as they come together and celebrate at “Home Is Where the Art Is” – Wellspring’s 7th Annual Benefit Auction. The event will take place at The Washington Club Hall in Washington, CT. To learn more please contact Wellspring at 203-266-8000.
Wellspring Offers New Groups for Alum Families
We are proud to announce two post-discharge opportunities for families of former residents and students of Wellspring. Beginning in September we will offer Parent Support and Multi-Family Groups which will meet in Middlebury, CT and in Rye, NY. Parents in Partnership, our mutual assistance alumni organization, will also become operational again in the fall.
The Parent Support Group (PSG) and Multi-Family Group (MFG) are clinical in orientation and a fee will be set for both. Both groups will provide ongoing clinical support for families who completed treatment or school at Wellspring. They will offer a continuation of the kind of clinical support familiar to families from the Adolescent and the Arch Bridge School Programs. For families whose children were in either the Children’s or Adult residential programs at Wellspring, these groups provide an opportunity to process with other parents common issues and concerns facing families, particularly around discharge and transition. The Middlebury groups will be led by Ann Watson, who has run the PSG and MFG in the Adolescent Program for many years and in Rye by Melodee Morrison, LCSW, a Wellspring Board Member and mother of a former resident. Ann Watson will also assist initially with the NY groups to help build a bridge to this new location and format.
If you are interested in registering or learning more about these new programs please contact Christina Reddington in our Community Relations Office at christina.reddington@wellspring.org or 203-266-8027.
To learn more about the re-launch of Parents in Partnership please click here.
American Residential Treatment Association
Wellspring is a founding members of ARTA, the American Residential Treatment Association. This group is comprised of 30 member facilities that offer residential care to adults with serious mental challenges, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, personality disorders, and disorders combined with substance abuse.
You can learn more about ARTA and other member organizations by visiting their website at: www.artausa.org
Members:
Academy Street Community Residence
Appleton Continuing Care Program at McLean
CooperRiis, Healing Farm Community
Gateway Homes of Greater Richmond
The Greystone Program; Friends Hospital
Hopewell, A Therapeutic Farm Community
Institute of Living/Buckingham House: formerly Institute Health Care, Inc.
Parents’ Foundation for Transitional Living, Inc.
SLSHealth: formerly Supervised Lifestyles
Angelus House, The Wellspring Foundation, Inc.
Brene Browne: The power of vulnerability
Wellspring co-founder Phyllis Beauvais recently shared Brené Browne’s TED video titled: The power of vulnerability with our staff. TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading – you can learn more at www.ted.com.
The video’s about twenty minutes long, so make yourself comfortable and enjoy!
About Brené Brown:
Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past ten years studying vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame. She spent the first five years of her decade-long study focusing on shame and empathy, and is now using that work to explore a concept that she calls Wholeheartedness. She poses the questions:
How do we learn to embrace our vulnerabilities and imperfections so that we can engage in our lives from a place of authenticity and worthiness? How do we cultivate the courage, compassion, and connection that we need to recognize that we are enough – that we are worthy of love, belonging, and joy?
You can learn more about Brené at her website www.brenebrown.com
Beauvais House at Wellspring Photo Tour
Many of you are aware that we have been working with Mike Marques Photography to capture Wellspring with images of daily life here on campus. We look forward to sharing the photographs with you – and thought that a quick montage of photos from the Adolescent Girls Program (Beauvais House @Wellspring) would be a great start!
Please feel free to leave your feedback in the comments section!
Wellspring is on facebook!
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Just over a year ago we started our facebook fan page. It was a slow and quiet start, asking friends and family to become part of our digital tribe. But, before we knew it others were finding us on facebook and connecting with Wellspring.
I have had the pleasure of getting to know former residents of our programs, families whose children are in our care, colleagues from other treatment facilities, and countless others whose comments and messages enliven the digital community of our fan page. It has been a truly delightful experience.
Last week I spent a few moments catching up with a resident’s family. They shared with me that the Wellspring updates and photographs help them stay connected with our daily living milieu during this difficult time of being apart. Their words of encouragement were heartfelt, and provided me with a boost of energy to continue expanding our social media outreach.
Those of you who are reading this who are fans – I thank you from the bottom of my heart for all of your support, encouragement, feedback, and “liking.” Without YOU our fanpage would not be the magical place that it has become.
Are you a fan of Wellspring on facebook? You can visit our fan page at www.facebook.com/wellspring and click on the “like” button.
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