To: William S a
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Sent Wed 3/22/2017 9:08:44 PM
Subject Re: PLAYshops and Caring for Caregiver Funding
Fabulous!! Thank ou for this...I have passed along to Jeffrey...so happy to hear your work is
doing great things!
On Mar 22, 2017, at 4:27 PM, William Spear ote:
Hi Jeffrey=
I sent you summary material on these projects mid January as you requested. Now, as the
1st Quarter of 2017 nears an end, you mentioned the possibility of helping us with
the shortfall in funding our School Resiliency Program which we arc rolling out in
six schools (budget $200,000) for which we raised $163,000 thus far.
The feedback from students (we worked with 400) and teachers we trained (36) was truly
exceptional — it is a huge success and lays the groundwork for expansion into
many school systems throughout the state and beyond. We will continue to work
with these schools through the rest of the school year.
<Bristol Feedback.pdf,
Here's the link on our website that further explains the
program: http://www.secondresponse.orgischool-resiliency-program-public/
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Next month, we will commence a new "Caring for the Caregivers" program at the largest
homeless shelter and soup kitchen in Western CT. An earlier
program we completed late last year was also a tremendous success. Here's a short video
and interview with the Clinical Director of the Center for Youth
and Families at the Charlotte Hungerford Hospital:
https://vimeo.com/191798439
and additional background to the program itself: hup://www.secondresponse.org/caring-
for-the-caregivers/ .
The budget for this individual program which runs 16 hours over 8 weeks is $22,000 of
which we received a small community foundation grant of $7,500 thus far.
This program will launch on April 28th.
A donation of $50,000 from you would put us over the top to complete the funding for
both programs. I'm hopeful you will enable us to continue
to develop this good work here and elsewhere. We already have requests for similar
programs in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York,
California and Texas for which advance funding support already looks promising.
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Many thanks, and hope you are remaining healthy and prosperous!
Best,
William
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