Company Sponsored
“Wear Jeans to Work Day”
for
Cerebral Palsy Association of Colorado Springs
Easy as 1 2 3,
Be Comfortable, Wear em with pride!
- Company signs up with CPACS, designates a Jean Day, and post provided flyers
- Employees sign up with company to donate $1.00 to wear jeans on designated day and receive a “Jeans Day” supporter sticker.
- Company collects then sends a check to CPACS
Benefits???
- Company will receive Certification of Appreciation to post and be entered into a quarterly drawing to win “Continental Breakfast” catered by CPACS.
- Participating employees will receive a tax deduction receipt for their donations.
- All will have the satisfaction of knowing they have helped out their community.
Adult Support Group
This group provides a unique opportunity to meet with other young adults who are living with CP. Most members live independently (or desire to learn how to do so). An outside facilitator provides new topics and guides discussions. Those who have attended speak highly of the lively discussions and feel that they go home with information they didn’t have before.
Every 3rd SATURDAY of the month at THE CPACS OFFICE 1322 N. ACADEMY, Ste. 115.
Meeting and program start at 10am Refreshments provided.
The goal is to share and problem solve common issues, make new friendships and appreciate the unique lives that we live. Call the CP office at 638-0808 for information.
Father of CP Little Girl Competing in 2009 Triathlons Events
Steve is in the Air Force here at Peterson AFB. In 2006, his wife, Sarah, gave birth to a beautiful baby girl at 28.5 weeks. Eight weeks after the birth the doctors suspected she might have CP. It was confirmed by doctors at Denver Children’s Hospital. Since then, they have found that many of their friends and relatives don’t really understand CP. They seem to automatically assume that having CP means you are mentally disabled. This is not the case for their little girl. The impact of CP on her has been muscular stiffness in her lower extremities which prevent her from sitting, or walking but her cognitive skills are unaffected. She is a bright and beautiful baby girl. Given this experience, he would like to help raise awareness and educate folks who don’t really understand. He also would like to give to the CPACS community so they can help families that might need assistance in therapies or equipment. Steve’s recent desire to compete in Triathlons has presented a great opportunity to do so.
He has created a web page from: www.yourcausesports.org for people who would like to support him and his cause. Donations can be made on that webpage as well. He is sponsoring Cerebral Palsy Association of Colorado Springs and hopes to raise awareness as well as funds for the CP community.
He has been an avid cyclist and only recently became interested in running triathlons and 2009 will be his first season. His first of three races will be in Boulder starting in June 2009. He is planning to keep a training diary log over the next six months as he prepares for the races. .
Go To: http://www.active.com/donate/TFYCJune62009/gritf15 to support him through his journey.
CPACS Recycle Program
Cerebral Palsy Association of Colorado Springs is involved in a Recycle Program and needs your help. This program helps YOUR community in three ways:
The most important is to help keep our community clean and safe by recycling items that normally might end up in our landfills and contaminating YOUR environment.
Another way it can help, is it will pay our community back therefore assisting families of Cerebral Palsy get the proper therapies, equipment, and recreation that they need to keep the muscles and mind more flexible.
The last way is that it gives YOU a warm, fuzzy feeling that you are conscience of YOUR surroundings while helping others.
How??? Just collect up all this kind of stuff you have around the house or office that you did not know how to dispose of properly.
Items needed for this Recycle Program are:
*Printer Cartridges
*Old Cell Phones
*Old scratched Cd's/ DVD's
*Non-working IPOD/ MP3 players
*Old laptops or PDA's
*Non-working Digital Camera's
*Video games/ Consoles
Ever see these items just cluttering your home or office and don’t really know what to do with them? Do you throw them away? Where do you think they end up??
Instead, bring them to our office at 1322 N. Academy Blvd. Ste 115
or call 719 638-0808. Your caring, giving, thoughtfulness is greatly appreciated!
Thank you for helping YOUR environment and community!
( Sorry, we do not take anything that is not on this list, but they can be taken to ARC or DAV to help others, too).