All For Kids

JANUARY 17, 2025

Holiday magic shined brightly this season, thanks to the incredible generosity that powered the All For Kids 2024 Holiday Gift Drive. Under the theme Lets Grow Joy Together, One Gift at a Time, the event brought smiles to nearly 2,100 children and their families nationwide. Over $65,000 worth of toys, clothing, and surprises made their way into the hands of children, turning holiday wishes into reality.

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CO4Kids

JANUARY 17, 2025

Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog Cobbled Streets Offers Transformative Experiences to Kids in Foster Care Shari Shink, founder and executive director of Cobbled Streets, is like a fairy godmother to kids in foster and kinship care. Cobbled Streets provided individualized and group activities to 3,192 kids in 2024. The enriching activities they provide include equine therapy, trauma-informed yoga, educational trips, cultural excursions, tickets to shows, swimming lessons, summer camps, music les

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Children’s Defense Fund

JANUARY 17, 2025

By Marian Wright Edelman If you want to be importantwonderful. If you want to be recognizedwonderful. If you want to be greatwonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. Thats a new definition of greatness. And this morning, the thing that I like about it: by giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 17, 2025

Ruth Pearlman, LCSW, LICSW, MEd Wednesdays, March 19 and 26, 2025 10 am 12 pm 4 CECs – participants must attend both sessions to earn CECs Registration Fee: $100 10% discount for UConn SSW Alumni and Current SSW Field Instructors Webinar link will be emailed when your registration is complete. In response to feedback from participants in her previous trainings, instructor Ruth Pearlman has expanded this webinar to 2 parts.Even before COVID children were grieving losses that were not large

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Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 17, 2025

Senior officers say fraction of child abuse cases relate to gangs and funding could be diverted from current cases Senior police officers fear that government pressure to reinvestigate closed historic cases of gang grooming could make it harder to catch those targeting children today. The government on Thursday announced more reviews of past cases and also that victims, whose cases did not end in prosecutions, will be given a new right of appeal to have their investigations reopened.

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Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 17, 2025

I was close to my dad. His esophagus ruptured when he was 57. I rushed him to hospital. It was late evening. Mom was in the back seat of the car. He survived. It took it’s toll. He was in ICU three months, most of which was in an induced coma for the massive surgical wounds to mend. Then there was two months in a regular hospital room. To return home he needed three dressing changes daily.

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Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 17, 2025

Mom had chosen MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying). We had discussed this since before her cancer diagnosis. She had friends who had chosen this before her. She was no stranger to the concept. Even before turning 100, we discussed death and dying. How could we not given her advanced age. Indeed, I let her know that when the time comes and she might have had enough, I would take her out back and shoot her.

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Interviewing Private Practice Mental Health Counseling 130

Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 17, 2025

A dosette box is a pill container. It is divided by day and for some, additional dividers for morning, noon and night. It helps organize the taking and timing of pills. Mine is organized by the days of the week, morning and nighttime. For the last few weeks my dosette was like an hourglass. Each administration of my pills lay empty a line of sections as if counting down to my mother’s death.

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Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 17, 2025

In the scheme of things, my grief with the loss of my mother was uncomplicated. There was no unfinished business. There was no associated family strife. The settling of her estate is easy and straightforward. It still bites. I will get through it. My mood has been steady and the acute pain has subsided. My sleep is returning to my normal. Clearly not everyone’s experience.

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Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 17, 2025

I don’t consider 2024 to be a bad year. Despite the passing of my mother and my grief, she went on her own terms, peacefully and surrounded by family. For that I am grateful. My goal for 2024 is to honor her by taking her lessons forward into 2025. Sure, her motto was spread love, not hate. However, beyond that I got to see just how generous of spirit she could be.

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Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 17, 2025

Trigger warning. This post discusses nightmares. — It was a particularly rough night. It was Thursday past. I’ve had nightmares before. I might awaken and just turn over. These were different. Extreme. Arlene woke me from one. I was screaming in my sleep. I woke from another having punched the bedside table with both fists. It was like a zombie apocalypse.

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Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 17, 2025

Her passing was remarkable. The day prior she met one-on-one with the great-grandkids. It was a master-class on saying goodbye to young children. She told each how she loved them and then extolled their unique strengths and virtues leaving each child that special gift; knowing they are loved, worthy and of value. We too each had our turns. On the day of her passing our entire family was present, each supportive of ourselves and of our mother/grandmother.

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Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 17, 2025

When someone loses a loved one, I often message with, “May their memory bring peace when the pain of grief subsides.” The pain of my grief has subsided substantially. The peace I feel is contemplative. I think of my mother and our times together. They are pleasant memories for me. I recognize that not everyone was at peace with their loved one at the time of their passing.

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Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 17, 2025

It is with a broken heart that I inform that my mother, Bess Direnfeld-Plosker passed away – December 27, 2024. Bess Direnfeld-Plosker, a cherished wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, passed away in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. Born in Winnipeg, Ontario, Canada on June 3, 1924, Bess touched the lives of all who knew her with her unwavering love, strength, and grace.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.