United Way Community Care Week Café

Redwood & Ethicon Endo Surgery Partner or Lanscaping

2008-10-27T10:44:00.002-04:00

The Industrial Design Team of Ethicon Endo-Surgery landscaped Redwood's playgrounds for their Community Care Day project, October 23! Redwood guides children and adults with multiple and severe disabilities to achieve independence and reach their highest potential throughout their lives, by providing enriching educational, therapeutic, and vocational services. At Redwood, children and adults flourish, prosper, and are empowered to achieve the quality of life they deserve.

Children's Hosp. Child's Life Team and Brighton Center

2008-10-22T19:52:00.003-04:00

On Tuesday August, 26th Brighton Center’s Youth Leadership Development Program and Children’s Hospital’s Child Life Team partnered up for a day of painting during United Way’s Annual Community Care Week.

Youth Leadership Development (YLD) is a 34 week after school prevention program for youth in grades 5-8 in the communities of Newport, Dayton, and Silver Grove Kentucky. YLD works with youth on building their self esteem, making healthy decisions, team building and strives to get kids actively involved and giving back to their communities through service learning.

The Youth Leadership Development (YLD) classroom, which is housed in one of Brighton Center’s community buildings, was in need of a little TLC. The staff from Children’s Hospital Child Life took on this project with excitement and enthusiasm.
The room received freshly painted walls. The Children’s Hospital Child Life staff was thorough and precise making sure all needs were met to create a beautiful space for Brighton Center’s YLD youth to learn and have fun. The best part of this Community Care Week project was youth and adults working together to accomplish a goal. It teaches us all that partnerships made up of any age, can accomplish wonderful things when we work together.

Redwood's Walk & Roll Path was a Zoo thanks to Ernst & Young Our Give campaign

2008-10-10T17:02:00.006-04:00

Ernst & Young LLP's first annual Our Give campaign was a great success with Redwood's children and clients. The Zoo themed stations along the path included many animals, one of the favorites was the Cat House station. Noah Payne is displaying the cat tail he wore on the path with Maria Brolley from School Age Services and Ernst & Young's employees.

Redwood guides children and adults with multiple and severe disabilities to achieve independence and reach their highest potential throughout their lives, by providing enriching educational, therapeutic, and vocational services. At Redwood, children and adults flourish, prosper, and are empowered to achieve the quality of life they deserve.

For more information about volunteering at Redwood go to www.redwoodnky.org.

Western Southern Financial Group Has Partnered with Redwood for the 11th Year

2008-09-23T17:39:00.014-04:00

Western & Southern Financial Group (W&SFG) and Redwood are celebrating 11 years of being a Community Partners. W&SFG Co-Chair Kent Finley, Redwood's Volunteer Coordinator, Susan Bushey, United Way's President Rob Reifsnyder and Co-Chair Scott Dinius of W&SFG are pictured below.

Western Southern Financial Group of 70+ volunteers landscaped all 5 acres of Redwood! They weeded, fluffed mulch, and trenched all the main entrances during this family friendly project. At the Adult Independence Entrance they donated a nosegay of flowers just in time for the Fall Formal dance. Some of the folks stayed inside and helped clean the classrooms.

Western & Southern Finacial Group gave items to Redwood's wish list for their children and clients.
Redwood guides children and adults with multiple and severe disabilities to achieve independence and reach their highest potential throughout their lives, by providing enriching educational, therapeutic, and vocational services. At Redwood, children and adults flourish, prosper, and are empowered to achieve the quality of life they deserve.

Oak Hills Basketball team supported Western & Southern on this adventure of preparing our gardens for the winter.

For more information about volunteering at Redwood go to www.redwoodnky.org.

Ethicon Endo Surgery Cleans Up For GCB

2008-09-04T09:27:00.016-04:00

Ethicon Endo Surgery volunteered on Friday, August 29 for a clean-up project for Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services (GCB). The project was at a group residence for mentally ill clients of GCB. The sweltering heat was no deterrant for the enthusiasm and kind and giving spirit of the 29 volunteers. The clean-up work included some landscaping and painting on the outside of the home.

Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services (GCB) is the largest and most comprehensive mental health agency serving adults with severe mental illness in the tri-state area. GCB has a stated, believed and enacted mission to help persons with mental illness and related barriers to lead productive and fulfilling lives.

GCB sends its heart-felt thanks to the great volunteers at Ethicon Endo Surgery!

Unum presented a Paradise Cruise at Redwood

2008-08-26T13:59:00.008-04:00

Unum Insurance Company volunteered on Friday, August 15 to create a Paradise Cruise for our children and clients with disabilities. They had the cruise event on our Walk & Roll path that is 1/4 of a mile around our building. I was so impressed with the creativity that Unum used in making the Paradise Cruise so informative and fun.

The Unum Group prepared a passport with fun facts from 4 different continents. They also let the children and clients touch plastic lizards from Australia and pan for gold in Alaska. Even I learned things about the world I live in from this volunteer driven event. I have attached a picture of the happy Unum crew from the cruise.

For more information about volunteering at Redwood go to www.redwoodnky.org.

American Tribal Belly Dancers at Redwood

2008-08-26T13:47:00.010-04:00

Quality of Life just got better at Redwood!

Entertaining the clients in Adult Independence is

Terpsichore, the American Tribal Belly Dance troupe, voluntarily performed at Redwood in the Adult Independence program on Thursday, August 21. The troupe, Diana Humbert, Christie Schulte, Beth Jones, Julie King and Francine Luzak, surrounding Gary Heidrich , gives lessons as well as being booked for entertainment. For More Information on Terpsichore bookings Terpsichore@fuse.net For More Information on Redwood and volunteering go to http://www.redwoodnky.org/

Ethicon Endo Surgery

2008-08-22T10:48:00.002-04:00

Ethicon Endo Surgery gave school children at Woodlawn Elementary the tools they need to begin the year. This was the kick off Community Care Week project for the Operation Department. Thank you Ethicon for advancing the common good.

Groups Brighten Playgrounds

2008-08-21T21:08:00.008-04:00

Last week Children, Inc. welcomed two groups volunteering for 's Community Care Week.

On Tuesday, Ethicon Endo-Surgery employees and board members spruced up the playground, or "outdoor classroom" at Montessori and Early Learning Academy in Covington. They spent the morning trimming trees to let more sunlight into the classrooms, refilling sandboxes with fresh sand and much more, making the area more inviting to children.

On Wednesday, employees from BASES spent the afternoon mulching, painting and sprucing the playground at Gardens at Greenup Child Development Center in Covington. After finishing, they spent a few minutes playing with the children who would enjoy the product of their volunteerism.

Thank you Ethicon Endo-Surgery and BASES! View pictures from their projects here.

Are You Ready to LIVE UNITED?

2008-08-20T09:21:00.000-04:00

Have you scheduled your Community Care Project yet? It's a terrific way to do your part to improve our Greater Cincinnati community through a hands-on volunteer project. It's also a perfect element to add to your company's United Way campaign. Check back here to learn more about projects others are doing!

Welcome

2008-07-02T09:58:00.000-04:00

Welcome to the Community Care Week blog! Please share your volunteer stories and pictures with the Tri-state area. Tell us how you LIVE UNITED and are advancing the common good in our community.