Children's Home Society

Art therapy works wonders at Warm Springs Counseling Center in Boise

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This artwork was created by a young child in our community being raised by grandparents due to mother’s homelessness & substance abuse, and father’s inprisonment. The child is shy and withdrawn but in counseling at our Warm Springs Counseling Center working on social and assertiveness skills. As a result of counseling, grades have improved and the child is now able to approach others to express needs or emotions without fear. Art is the favored mode of therapy. The child chose to create this dinosaur because “they are strong and eat healthy things” and because “they do not hurt others.” You can help fund this child’s counseling and therapy, and the hundreds of others who are in similar situations, by clicking on the donate now button at the top of this page, or here!

Self-Esteem Group – Girls 16-18 Postive About Self

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Warm Springs Counseling Center is offering a girls group ages 16-18. “Positive About Self” will help girls build self esteem, re-frame from negative self-talk, and more!

Date: starting April 4, 2012 (occurs weekly on Wednesdays for 11 weeks) ending on June 6, 2012

Time: 4:00-5:00 p.m

Location: Children’s Home Society of Idaho/2nd Floor Conference Room 740 Warm Springs Avenue Boise, Idaho 83712

Registration: Amy Thompson, LMSW 208-343-7797 x 1211 or athompson@childrenshomesociety.com

Cost: $35 per session

Body Image & Self-Esteem Group sessions will focus on:

Building self-esteem
Reframing negative self-talk into positive attributes
Increasing awareness of negative cultural & societal influences, and developing coping skills
Learning techniques to increase self-confidence
Creative/expressive process through art
Verbal processing

This group is for girls 16-18 years old. Sessions are held weekly on Wednesdays from 4:00-5:00 p.m. for eleven weeks. Class tuition will be waived for those who cannot afford it, and bus passes are available to help with transportation.

Sessions will consist of educational material combined with related activities and processing of topics. Concepts and skills will be taught in a progressive order. Participants should plan to attend all sessions.

The leaders of this group are Lisa Williams, LCPC, ATR, NNC; and Jennifer Ritter, LCPC.

Warm Springs Counseling Center accepts most insurance plans and Medicaid.

Subsidy programs are available for those who qualify.

Funding for this program has been provided by The Gibney Family Foundation.

The Lightfoot Foundation Awards $25,000 to Children’s Home Society’s Warm Springs Training Institute

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Children’s Home Society of Idaho has received a $25,000 grant from The Lightfoot Foundation to further advance its Warm Springs Training Institute Professional Development Series.

This is great news for the 38 therapists on staff at our Warm Springs Counseling Center, and for mental and behavioral health care students and professionals throughout Southwest Idaho. That’s because the Lightfoot grant helps allow the Warm Springs Training Institute to continue to offer specialized, affordable training and continuing education credits through its Professional Development Series.

To that end, the Warm Springs Institute has an excellent line up of seminars and workshops planned throughout this year.

Many thanks to The Lightfoot Foundation and to all others in our community who believe in our work.

Children’s Home Society Appoints Intermountain Gas Executive Linda Murray to Board of Directors

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BOISE, Idaho (Jan. 13, 2012) — Children’s Home Society of Idaho, a non-profit organization that provides emotional and behavioral health care to at-risk children and the families that care for them, has appointed Linda Murray, director of human resources for Intermountain Gas Company, to its board of directors.

An Idaho native, Murray brings a 27-year background in human resources and leadership development to the Children’s Home Society’s board. Prior to joining Intermountain Gas in 2007, she was Regional Human Resource Manager at Trus Joist Weyerhaeuser, and assistant Vice President of Corporate Benefits at U.S. Bank. She has served on the board of directors for Casa and the March of Dimes, and the advisory board for the Casey Family Program.

As a Children’s Home Society board member, Murray will provide expertise in leadership development, strategic planning and organizational. Her three-year term began on Jan. 1, 2012.

About Children’s Home Society of Idaho

The mission of the Children’s Home Society is to continue a century-old legacy of improving the lives of children in the community. Today, the organization accomplishes this mission by operating the Warm Springs Counseling Center which provides superior emotional and behavioral health services to at-risk children and the families that care for them.

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Contact:

Joanne Taylor, Marketing & Development Manager

208-3432-7813, ext. 1510

jtaylor@childrenshomesociety.com

Self Esteem Group – Girls 13-15 Positive About Self

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Warm Springs Counseling Center is offering a girls group ages 13-15. “Positive About Self” will help girls build self esteem, re-frame from negative self-talk, and more!

Positive About Self flyer

Date: starting January 11, 2012 (occurs weekly on Wednesdays for 11 weeks) ending on March 21, 2012

Time: 4:00-5:00 p.m

Location:
Children’s Home Society of Idaho/2nd Floor Conference Room
740 Warm Springs Avenue
Boise, Idaho 83712

Registration:
Amy Thompson, LMSW
208-343-7797 x 1211 or athompson@childrenshomesociety.com

Cost: $35 per session

Body Image & Self-Esteem Group sessions will focus on:

Building self-esteem
Reframing negative self-talk into positive attributes
Increasing awareness of negative cultural & societal influences, and developing coping skills
Learning techniques to increase self-confidence
Creative/expressive process through art
Verbal processing

This group is for girls 13-15 years old. Sessions are held weekly on Wednesdays from 4:00-5:00 p.m. for eleven weeks.

The leaders of this group are Lisa Williams, LCPC, ATR, NNC; and Jennifer Ritter, LCPC.

Warm Springs Counseling Center accepts most insurance plans and Medicaid.

Subsidy programs are available for those who qualify.

Teresa Alexander and Joanne Taylor of Children’s Home Society Featured in Boise Weekly

admin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:44:13 +0000

George Prentice, news editor at the Boise Weekly, recently came by to chat with Children’s Home Society CEO Teresa Alexander and Marketing & Development Manager Joanne Taylor. This story, which ran as the “Citizen” feature in the most recent edition of the Weekly is the result of their discussion. Thanks to George and Boise Weekly for helping to shine a light on the many valuable nonprofit organizations in our community. You have to wonder where we would be without them.

The Cornerstone, Fall 2011

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In this issue:

Philanthropic Giving-Return on Investment
Holiday Wish List
Philanthropic Profiles
Philanthropic Partnerships
Philanthropic Deeds
2012 Gala UpdateView the Fall 2011 Newsletter

View the Fall Newsletter

Community Sponsorship Program Thrives Thanks to Local Support

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We’ve received more than 25 donations since launching a fundraising campaign last week for Children’s Home Society’s Community Sponsorship Program. This program provides subsidies to the 60-70 kids we see each day whose families cannot afford to pay or co-pay for counseling and therapy.

Counseling and therapy are needed, though, to address mental, emotional and behavioral health issues, many of which stem from trauma, abuse, illness, and grief.

Thanks to individual donors, private foundations, and corporate contributions, the Community Sponsorship Program continues to thrive. In fact, this week we received nearly $32,000 to support this program. Granted, the program costs nearly $1 million per year, but this is a terrific bump.

Special gratitude goes to Scentsy ($24,000 corporate contribution), Bank of America ($5,000 grant), and The Penny Foundation ($2,000 grant). Also, a big thank you to our individual supporters. We appreciate your generosity!

Pictured below (left to right) are Children’s Home Society Marketing & Development Manager Joanne Taylor, Bank of America VP Dana Heath, and Children’s Home Society CEO Teresa Alexander.

Children’s Home Society Increases Staff at Warm Spring Counseling Center

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The Children’s Home Society of Idaho, a Boise-based non-profit organization that provides emotional and behavioral health care to at-risk children in southwest Idaho, has added nine new staff members to its roster of professional counselors and psychosocial rehabilitation specialists.

The expansion of clinical staff will allow Children’s Home Society’s Warm Springs Counseling Center to better meet the needs of the community by offering a wider variety of appointment options, including evenings and weekends, and reducing the wait list for emotional and behavioral health care.

New clinical staff members include Julia Wood, LPC, NCC; Tori Beauclaire, LPCP; Melinda Kaserman, LPC; Cyndia Glorfield, LCPC; Kim Keys, LPC; Erica Van Leuven, LCPC, NCC; Kristi Weismann, LPC; Brhe Minkler, LPC; and Beau Dahlgren, PSR. For more information about new staff or the Warm Springs Counseling Center, please call 343-7797 or visit www.childrenshomesociety.com.

About the Children’s Home Society’s Warm Springs Counseling Center

The Warm Springs Counseling Center is an outpatient counseling center for children and families. It is operated by the Children’s Home Society of Idaho, an organization that has been caring for Idaho’s children since 1908. The mission of the Children’s Home Society is to improve the lives of children in the community. Today the organization accomplishes this mission by operating the Warm Springs Counseling Center which provides superior emotional and behavioral health services to at-risk children and the families that care for them.

Children’s Home Society Gets a Financial Boost

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The Children’s Home Society of Idaho, a Boise-based nonprofit organization that provides emotional and behavioral health care to at-risk children in the community, has recently received contributions from several companies that do business in Idaho. PacificSource Health, Walmart Foundation, Wells Fargo Foundation, Weyerhaeuser, and the Schindel Foundation have all recently pledged their support for Children’s Home Society of Idaho’s Community Sponsorship Program.
The Community Sponsorship Program eliminates funding as a barrier to emotional and behavioral health care for low-income and Medicaid families in Idaho, and allows for early intervention in the assessment and treatment of emotional and behavioral health conditions. Programs and services provided by Children’s Home Society Warm Springs Counseling Center help children and their families develop coping skills, attitudes and positive experiences necessary to succeed in educational settings, and lead happy, healthy, independent and productive lives.

In addition to corporate contributions made by PacificSource Health, Walmart Foundation, Wells Fargo Foundation, Weyerhaeuser, and the Schindel Foundation; the Boise Co-op selected Children’s Home Society of Idaho to be a recipient of its Shop for Good Program last month. On September 15, 4% of the Co-ops total store and Wine Shop sales were donated to Children’s Home Society of Idaho totaling $2,824.31. The Boise Co-op’s Shop for Good program benefits one local non-profit each month.

About the Children’s Home Society

The Children’s Home Society of Idaho was established in 1908 to privately oversee the state’s orphanage. The mission of the Children’s Home Society is to continue a century-old legacy of improving the lives of children in the community. Today the organization accomplishes this mission by operating the Warm Springs Counseling Center which provides superior emotional and behavioral health services to at-risk children and the families that care for them.