Join the HKYFS May Wellness Challenge by making time for things that make you and your family feel great!
Try these ideas and programs! HKYFS is always available for resources, referrals, and support!
Download the sheet to play along.Β Bring your Challenge Calendar to Summer Solstice Family Fest on June 20th to win a prize!
Our services include support for family crises, school truancy, substance abuse, and youth crime; programs for positive youth development, bullying prevention, and mentoring; and diversion options for at-risk youth committing first offenses, functioning as a Juvenile Review Board (JRB).
HKYFS runs events throughout the year. The goal is to have fun and raise money while supporting a variety of needs in the Haddam-Killingworth community.
Over the past two years, 21 families worked with our Juvenile Review Board volunteers committed to the process of restorative justice.
$4,500 in redirected or direct grant funding supported local families and businesses.
Over the last two years, 103 children received free school supplies in our Back-to-School Backpack Program.
Offering everyone unique ways to share ideas on how we can effectively solve problems and make our community a better place for us all to live.
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Providing help to children of all ages through innovative programs addressing a range of challenges.
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Programs that offer help to those in need, and give members of the community the opportunity to help those less fortunate.
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Counseling services for families, young people, and individuals of all ages, available to Haddam and Killingworth residents regardless of their financial situation.
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You can call 988 for any mental health or substance use crisis. Free and confidential crisis support by a counselor.
Please help to spread the word during May Mental Health Awareness Month.
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HKYFS Wellness Challenge!
Did you know that giving back to our planet as a family supports over-all youth well-being and happiness?
What better way than giving back to a community treasure at @Deer Lake Day Camp and @Deer Lake Outdoor Center while also creating a pollinator pot for your home?!
Saturday, May 25 10-12PM Please register ahead so we have enough supplies! Appropriate for all ages. ππͺ΄πΈπΊ
https://hkyfs.org/event/polinator-train-and-family-planting-day/
Yoga! We all know about it, but have we all tried it?!
Try yoga on your own OR for our families with children who are home during the day....... join Miss Becky in one week out on the Lawn Social Services- Haddam Connecticut !
Monday May 13 10-10:30 See you there!π
MATCHES are made! HUGE thank you to the families who have signed up to help seniors who just need an extra hand in their yards and gardens this Spring.
As the HKYFS Wellness Challenge continues for May Mental Health Awareness Month, we just want to share that helping others is as GOOD for YOU as it is for the recipient. Community connection, feelings of being valued, and time outdoors helping others will lift your mood and spirits.
Can you imagine all the great feelings that come from role modeling that for and with your family?
We have MORE people in need-
email alli.behnke@hkyfs.org TODAY to sign up for a match. Just a little................makes a huge difference. π₯°π
ps this is a GREAT community service opportunity for our HS students! reach out!
May Wellness Challenge continues!
Food plays a HUGE role in how we feel. It also plays a very big role in how our children behave and experience their world each and every day.
Why not connect with a few others over a cup of tea and delicious healthy snack at Bittersweet Bistro to learn more about specific foods and how they work together to either help or hurt how we (and our kids) feel? Tips, ideas, resources, and great conversation with neighbors and friends. Wellness at its best!
May 15 7-8PM
Free Food! Amazing Company!
Our guide for the evening is Karen Therrien, owner at HK Health and Fitness and passionate Health Coach with experience and knowledge in over-all well-being.
Sign up ASAP! Bring a friend! Space is limited to 10
https://hkyfs.org/event/food-and-mood/
HK Health and Fitness
HKYFS is one of 100 YSBs serving 142 towns across Connecticut. A stand-alone nonprofit agency, we are part of the delivery system for youth and family services within the Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF).
As a Youth Service Bureau (YSB), our job is to: assess the needs of youth and the availability of resources to meet them; develop resources to improve services and fill gaps, and to encourage the creation of innovative programs; conduct programs to increase the publicβs knowledge and understanding of youth needs; advocate for youth groups whose needs
are not being met and for individuals having difficulties obtaining services; maintain confidentiality when reporting youth data to the State Department of Education, providing the data they need for evaluations and grants.
The work of HKYFS encompasses counseling services and support; direct prevention services; case management referral and follow-up services; resource support; coordination of services working with other local providers of health, social, and educational services.
