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Youth
Advocacy Awards
10th Annual Breakfast Event
The Board of Directors of Youth Continuum invites
you to The 10th Annual Youth Advocacy Awards Breakfast, honoring those that work
to serve children, youth and families in our
community.
On June 8, 2010, Bishop Theodore Brooks will be honored with the Youth Advocate Award for his dedication to
improve neighborhoods and opportunities for youth through Beulah Heights Pentacostal
Church and Beulah
Land Development Corporation.
Habitat for Humanity of Greater New Haven will also receive the Youth Advocate award for
their collaboration on the Skills for Life project, giving our youth the
chance to build a home from start to finish for a deserving family.
Partnership awards will be presented to the
Connecticut State Medical Society and St. Barnabas’ Church
of North Haven for their years of support to Youth Continuum and
other organizations fighting poverty hunger and homelessness in Connecticut.
The
Youth Advocacy Awards Breakfast will be held at The New Haven Lawn Club on June 8th at
8:00am. For tickets or sponsorship
information, please contact the Development Office at 203-526-3396 ext.
28. This event supports
programming at MacMullen
Center. for more
than 1,000 youth each year.
Lotus
Feet Yoga, Earthdance Yoga Retreat
A non-profit fundraiser for Youth Continuum,
June 11-13, 2010
Erika Dixon, certified yoga instructor and founder
of Lotus Feet Yoga has organized a retreat to benefit the arts program at
MacMullen Center. The three day excursion in June will
feature meditation, yoga instruction, live music, nature walks, hearty
meals and various housing options.
Lotusfeet Yoga was born from
the belief that all yogis have lotus flowers for feet. Offering opportunity and illumination
to those stuck in the shadows of the world while drawing from both the
beauty and strength of the lotus flower.
Growing from the murky depths up towards the radiance above where
full potential blooms, Lotusfeet Yoga is an organization dedicated to
bridging the gap between the dark and the light, creating the ability to
find renewal and positive change within ourselves and the world.
To learn more about this
extraordinary retreat including schedules, teacher bios, classes, rates
and registration information, please visit http://www.lotusfeetyoga.com
today.
Building Homes,
Building Hope
Marisol Morales and her three children were living out of
their car not too long ago. Today they
have a two story house built by the young people of Youth Continuum to
call home.
In a collaborative effort between Youth Continuum and
Habitat for Humanity of Greater New Haven, the Skills for Life project
emerged with a dozen at-risk and homeless youth building a home for a
family in need. The project on Dewitt Street
began with an empty lot and ended with a dozen youth better prepared for
their future.
Too often young adults transitioning out of foster-care
and homelessness are not fully prepared to be self sustaining adults and
often find themselves poorly prepared for the workforce. This project
aimed to provide Youth Continuum clients with the rare opportunity to go
beyond classroom learning and use their hands and minds to build a house
from start to finish. The project also provided a deserving family with
the chance to own a home.
Skills For Life was a great success, but this project
wouldn’t have been possible without the financial support of The
Annie E. Casey Foundation, the passion of the staff involved from both
Youth Continuum and Habitat and the young people who invested so much of
themselves into Marisol’s new home.
Together we have made a difference in our community, in our
organizations and in our youth.
Thank you to all involved for making this project
possible.
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