Beech Acres Parenting Center
Beech Acres Parenting Center Collecting Backpacks For Kids
Beech Acres Parenting Center needs our help in ensuring children of parents in Cincinnati who are working to overcome financial challenges, will have the necessary supplies they need to begin their school year on the right track.
Last year more than 180 children served by the nonprofit agency received backpacks filled with school needs. They want to increase that number for the 2015 school year, for students of all grade levels.
They are aski
ng for donations of backpacks filled with items including pocket folders, notebooks, paper, scissors, glue sticks and crayons.
To help, please fill out the form at this link, and then drop your donation off to one of these Beech Acres locations during business hours:
Administration Building: 6881 Beechmont Ave in Anderson
Glenmore Location at 3325 Glenmore Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45211
Lebanon Location at 767 Columbus Avenue Suite 2, Lebanon, Ohio 45036
For more information, you can call them at 513-233-4729 or visit www.beechacres.org.
Anderson Township Students Shopped For Beech Acres’ Families
Pennies and quarters at a time, students from Wilson Elementary, Summit Elementary, and Nagel Middle School collected nearly $7,000 in change to purchase holiday gifts for more than 200 needy local families who participate in Beech Acres Parenting Center programs. They bought their presents at the Anderson Target store last week and I had so much fun taking their pictures. It was part of the Shop & Share Holiday Project, a Beech Acres Parenting Center tradition. Forest Hills students and Beech Acres supporters raise money and shop for families facing financial hardships.
“For every $100 that the students donate, we are able to help another family. It’s been so exciting for them each morning when we announce how many families they’ve helped that day,” said Jen Schlosser, who coordinated the school fund-raising efforts. “The kids are surprised and humbled by all the things that people
are asking for.”
An estimated 205 Beech Acres families will receive gifts this year. Now that is a good thing!
Community Donated Over 240 Backpacks To Beech Acres Parenting Center
Each year, Beech Acres Parenting Center, a non-profit dedicated to strengthening families for children, works with more than 17,000 children and parents throughout Hamilton, Clermont, Butler and Warren Counties to become better equipped to raise capable, caring, contributing children. For those who are working to overcome financial challenges, this work is that much more difficult.
Beech Acres’ Beech Reach Projects consists of three projects to help in this effort. Fill-a-Backpack provides their kids with the tools they’ll need to succeed in the classroom. This year, caring neighbors and friends generously donated more than 240 backpacks filled with school supplies! Donations are accepted year-round for the new School Supply Store, to have supplies readily available as families need them. Adopt-a-Family will kick off by November 1st to provide gifts for the holidays. For more information on how to get involved, please visit www.BeechAcres.org/BeechReach or call (513) 231-6630.
A Husband Shares Why He Loves His Wife
It is so wonderful when you ask someone on the spot to talk about who in their life inspires them and gives their life meaning. Here, one Cincinnati area husband spontaneously shares what he loves about his wife. His response is pretty special.
In my public relations work for Beech Acres Parenting Center, I met them when I stopped by the organization’s free Hitched and Happy class, part of Beech Acres community-based Building Strong Marriages and Relationships Program. The goal is to empower couples with skills and strategies to establish positive attitudes, behaviors and patterns of emotional expression that lead to healthy habits for loving family relationships.
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The Cincinnati Herald Staff Are Good Things Pledge Champions
I created my Good Things Pledge as a fun way of reminding people that they have the power to do and feel Good Things. We have the power to stand tall and rise above when things may not appear to be going our way. We have the power to appreciate all that is beautiful and meaningful in our world.
It has been so fulfilling to see how many people have signed up to become Good Things Pledge champions. Today, I just added Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney, Dan Yount, Courtney Myrick, Inez Barnes, Walter White, Andrea Laudat Blackmon, Wade Lacey Sr., Gwen Seay, and Rachel Roberts to the list. They all work for The Cincinnati Herald and they invited me to their office today to hand out their certificates and take their picture.
I have worked with The Cincinnati Herald for years on behalf of my clients, the YMCA of Greater Cincinnati, Beech Acres Parenting Center and others. They are truly caring group of people who do so much for the community – individually and collectively. I appreciate their generosity. Not to mention their excellence in reporting news.
To become a Good Things Pledge Champion, simply add your information to this page and I’ll send you a certificate.
If you’d like for me to stop by and take a photo of your office or group with certificates, just send me a message
in the Contact Lisa page.
