May 2017
Exciting news & announcements from
Sierra Association of Foster Families
Sierra Association of Foster Families
SAFF Tutors Get Results!
Congratulations to our tutored student, Brendan DeShane graduated from Damonte Ranch High School. Brendan's SAFF tutor is Ellen Crawford, a valued educator and mentor. Ellen has been working with Brendan for 4 years. She says" ...SAFF has made it possible for me to know him and to watch him become the unique and, yes, courageous young man he is today..." Click on the image to visit the SAFF FaceBook page to view this awesome video about a wonderful young man.
Cinderella Girls Rule!!!
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Marshella (left) has no qualms of admitting she was - for years - in Washoe County's foster care system. Why should she? She stands on stages in scholarship competitions with a crown on her head ... serving as an inspiration to girls and young women throughout Nevada.
Living in the Clark home - her loyal foster mom who is active as a pageant director for the Cinderella Program - a scholarship pageant - Marshella received years of academic tutoring from SAFF... and years of love and nurturing from her foster mom Yvette Clark . Is it any wonder Marshella - after graduating high school last year - now works in a Reno pharmacy?
The Clark's biological daughter Gracie (right) has a series of her own achievements that leaves one astonished! The 2 girls have been inspiring many other girls under the nurturing of foster mom - adoptive mom - Yvette.
Now .. working professionally and representing themselves and Nevada - both have an upcoming pageant of beauty, talent, intelligence... and they are raising $$ to pay for the expenses of travel.
If you would like to make a donation to help these inspirational girls .. contact Joseph at [email protected] at SAFF .. 100 percent of your donation will go to the girls!!!!
We are so proud! The Clark family truly demonstrates the power of being a mom who is dedicated to making sure both her biological daughter and foster care daughter excel in life!
Living in the Clark home - her loyal foster mom who is active as a pageant director for the Cinderella Program - a scholarship pageant - Marshella received years of academic tutoring from SAFF... and years of love and nurturing from her foster mom Yvette Clark . Is it any wonder Marshella - after graduating high school last year - now works in a Reno pharmacy?
The Clark's biological daughter Gracie (right) has a series of her own achievements that leaves one astonished! The 2 girls have been inspiring many other girls under the nurturing of foster mom - adoptive mom - Yvette.
Now .. working professionally and representing themselves and Nevada - both have an upcoming pageant of beauty, talent, intelligence... and they are raising $$ to pay for the expenses of travel.
If you would like to make a donation to help these inspirational girls .. contact Joseph at [email protected] at SAFF .. 100 percent of your donation will go to the girls!!!!
We are so proud! The Clark family truly demonstrates the power of being a mom who is dedicated to making sure both her biological daughter and foster care daughter excel in life!
Vote for N.E.A.T.
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Its mission: Using horses as therapy for children, teens and adults. In their eight-and-a-half-year existence, Nevada Equine Assisted Therapy (N.E.A.T.) had to move locations more than once.
And just last fall, the Little Valley Fire forced them to evacuate. "And it felt like the flames were right across the street. They were huge and the sky was lit up, and then I had to pick which of my 3 horses, we have 7 horses plus the two miniatures, which of the three horses I was going to take first," N.E.A.T's co-founder Laurie Roberts told us back in October of 2016, during that fire.
A harrowing time for N.E.A.T., but now things are back to normal. N.E.A.T has its eyes on developing a bigger program, helping more people. Just a couple weeks ago, N.E.A.T was recognized by four premier organizations, NAIOP Northern Nevada, CREW of Northern Nevada, CCIM of Northern Nevada, and the Nevada Builders Association. The group honored N.E.A.T for its work and presented the organization with a check.
N.E.A.T is in talks with the Sanford Center for the Aging at UNR, and is using its award money to develop a pilot program for seniors. And there is more.
N.E.A.T is in the running to win one of the 20 Gypsy Vanner horses offered by the Lexlin Gypsy Ranch. While there are 75 therapy groups in the country in the competition, all N.E.A.T has to do is place in the top 20 to win a horse. The breed is beautiful, small and stout. It's ideal for clients N.E.A.T currently serves and clients of the future. "We have been working with the VA now, for about 6 months, starting a program with them. And obviously the males we work with might be larger in size. So having a larger horse that could carry the weight would be great. And I think this would be great for all of our clients," says Bambi Spahr, the other co-founder of N.E.A.T You can vote every 24 hours for N.E.A.T, vote here, all the way up to June 15.
N.E.A.T. is hoping your vote will give a Gypsy Vanner a good home here in Northern Nevada, where it will be loved, and where countless clients will learn from a steady soul. (excerpted from RENO, Nev. (KOLO)) By Terri Russell)
And just last fall, the Little Valley Fire forced them to evacuate. "And it felt like the flames were right across the street. They were huge and the sky was lit up, and then I had to pick which of my 3 horses, we have 7 horses plus the two miniatures, which of the three horses I was going to take first," N.E.A.T's co-founder Laurie Roberts told us back in October of 2016, during that fire.
A harrowing time for N.E.A.T., but now things are back to normal. N.E.A.T has its eyes on developing a bigger program, helping more people. Just a couple weeks ago, N.E.A.T was recognized by four premier organizations, NAIOP Northern Nevada, CREW of Northern Nevada, CCIM of Northern Nevada, and the Nevada Builders Association. The group honored N.E.A.T for its work and presented the organization with a check.
N.E.A.T is in talks with the Sanford Center for the Aging at UNR, and is using its award money to develop a pilot program for seniors. And there is more.
N.E.A.T is in the running to win one of the 20 Gypsy Vanner horses offered by the Lexlin Gypsy Ranch. While there are 75 therapy groups in the country in the competition, all N.E.A.T has to do is place in the top 20 to win a horse. The breed is beautiful, small and stout. It's ideal for clients N.E.A.T currently serves and clients of the future. "We have been working with the VA now, for about 6 months, starting a program with them. And obviously the males we work with might be larger in size. So having a larger horse that could carry the weight would be great. And I think this would be great for all of our clients," says Bambi Spahr, the other co-founder of N.E.A.T You can vote every 24 hours for N.E.A.T, vote here, all the way up to June 15.
N.E.A.T. is hoping your vote will give a Gypsy Vanner a good home here in Northern Nevada, where it will be loved, and where countless clients will learn from a steady soul. (excerpted from RENO, Nev. (KOLO)) By Terri Russell)
FINANCIAL LITERACY
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