June Newsletter: THE PULSE
June is PRIDE month!
Sacred Heart Community Service would like to join the community in celebrating the legacy of the Stonewall Uprising.
We stand in solidarity
Program Spotlight: Safe, Secure and Loved Resilient Families!
The Resilient Families Program is a community-based model for strengthening children's resiliency by focusing on attachment, executive functioning skills and stress reduction in families with Infants. The aim of the program is healthier family functioning among families experiencing economic disadvantage, stress and trauma. And it provides community healing.
Workshops offered for Parents and Caregivers!
Parents and Caregivers attend 7 classes to learn how to handle stress and create a support network. This provides parents and caregivers with skills tips to help their children feel safe, secure, and loved and be better prepared to start school!
Benefits:
Helping parents to cope with their own stress, better understand their child’s social and emotional development
Interact with their child in healthy and positive ways
Increasing healthy family functioning to allow parents to provide more sensitive and supportive care for their child, so that their child develops a healthy attachment.
Mothers who have successfully completed the classes and are willing to teach them to other groups become "promotoras" which increases their leadership skills
Offered in Spanish and English!
VOLUNTEER WITH US!
Get involved! We welcome new and returning volunteers to come share their time with us by being part of our community united!
We are currently seeing 600-800 households that come in for food, clothing, hygiene items and other services. Volunteers are key to providing customer service, accepting and sorting donations, and bagging produce and essential items and many other things. When you volunteer your time, you are lifting up your community.
There are many ways to volunteer at Sacred Heart. Register online and volunteer today!
UPCOMING EVENTS
PACK-A-BACK GIVE & VOLUNTEER
PACK A BACK
Pack a Back 2023 is coming up in August! Get involved in many different ways to help give the gift of learning to 4,000 students this school year!
Pack a back is a back to school campaign that provides families and students in our community all the school supplies they will need for the coming school year. This will help prepare them to learn and become the future leaders in our community!
Parents of Preschoolers
Sacred Heart offers parents classes four days a week to improve English skills, gain more parenting skills, and provide a mutual support environment for each other’s families. Simultaneously, their children attend pre-kinder classes in the classroom next door to prepare them for emotional and developmental success in the American public school system.
Turning Leaders Into Learners
There is nothing like the excitement of the first day of school. The feeling of wearing your brand new outfit, your new backpack in tow, and the potential of all the things to come. I loved walking through the school doors dreaming about all of the new things I would learn, the new friends I would make, and getting to know my new teacher. I am reminded of the smell of freshly sharpened pencils, the sound of the school bell, and the feeling of butterflies in my stomach as I imagined the possibilities of the year ahead.
What I don’t remember is the financial burden that was placed on my family in order to obtain school supplies so I had the best opportunity to learn. It wasn’t until later I learned that each year my parents would stress and worry about how they would pay for five young children to have the school supplies for the upcoming school year. They would make sacrifices so we had the very basics for our classrooms and had everything we would need to be successful for the coming school year.
SACRED HEART READS
Summer is here! Hopefully this is a time of rest and relaxation for you and your family. When our staff is not working to realize of our vision of a community free from poverty they enjoy downtime by reading, watching TV,
