(Alliance E-News Service) — Wellspring Family Services Creates Innovative Classroom
In order to address the under-acknowledged issue of preschoolers expelled from their classrooms because of behavior problems, Alliance member Wellspring Family Services in Seattle has created a new preschool program called Cornerstone Classrooms. Central to the program are its classrooms that are staffed with teachers and therapists who support the students’ academic and emotional development.
This program aims to target children with delayed social and emotional development early, before these issues can lead to difficulties in the classroom, loss of motivation, and social isolation. Using the Cornerstone Method of Reflective Therapy, the program allows staff to intensively work with children one-on-one through play and socialization in a natural classroom setting.
“When children’s feelings and thoughts are understood they can be communicated through words instead of behavior, and then behavior can be changed,” says Judy Burr-Chellin, director of Parent/Child Services at Wellspring.
Community Service Society CEO Blogs for The Huffington Post
One of his most recent posts addresses the passing of health care reform. Jones expresses his concern for protecting individual health care consumers in the new health care paradigm. He also notes work done by CSS to lobby congressmen to include language in the health care reform bill that would create local and state nonprofit ombuds programs to help consumers get adequate coverage and help in resolving disputes with providers.
Families First Recognizes Its Supporters in Monthly Video Series
Alliance member Families First in Atlanta has launched a new monthly online video series called Faces of Families First. It features the many diverse individuals that support the organization and its values.
One of the recent videos features John and Tamera Bradley who, after being foster parents for years, became “the Bradley Bunch” when they adopted five siblings. The new parents talk about how meaningful it has been to provide a concrete future for the five children.
In another recent video, Richard Jones, senior vice president and general counsel for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, who was born to a family of 12, shares how strong families are important to him personally and professionally.
The videos, as they continue to be posted, will paint a picture of the diverse supporters of Families First.  |
