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Madison Area Down Syndrome Society
August 28, 2009
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Greetings!
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To do:
1) Buy school supplies
2) Register for Step UP Walk
3) Mow lawn (optional)
4) Buy school supplies you forgot the first time
5) Squeeze in last weekend of summer fun
6) Collapse in heap
Be Well,
Andrea*see you in September!*
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Volunteers Needed
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 MADSS
is holding our 8th annual fundraising & awareness walk on Willow Island at
the Alliant Energy Center on October 10th. The Step Up for Down Syndrome
walk will not only help raise awareness and a significant portion of our
operating funds for MADSS, but it is a great way to connect with other
families, our community, and our organization. We are looking for
volunteers to help make this event successful! Some of these volunteer
opportunities the day of include: setup for the event, registration, serving
food, working the adventure course, helping in the kids area, and take down
after the walk. If you can't help the day of since you have family in town, but
would like to help out before hand we need volunteers to stock shirts and help
with pre-registration. If you're interested in volunteering please contact
Jennifer Skolaski at jenniferskolaski@gmail.com. OR if you know of
others who may be interested, please feel free to forward this message! |
Brewers V. Cubs: DADS Night Out!
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DADS - Brewers vs. Cubs // Sept 22nd, Tuesday Night
This is our 2nd annual DADS only Baseball game. This is a "fathers night out" type event (no kiddos this time). Bleacher seats ($30-$35)
We will likely meet at the HWY 51 & beltline Park and ride, and car pool over to MKE.
Please RSVP to Joe
jdrapeaupioneer@rxn.com
608-358-7182
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Thank you to our Sponsors
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MADSS' 2009 Great Dane Golf Outing, presented by Winston & Strawn LLP
would like to thank all of our generous sponsors:
Great Dane Pub & Brewing Company
Winston & Strawn, LLP
Comprehensive Computer Consulting
Wipperfurth Excavating, Inc.
Pioneer Environmental, Inc.
US Bank
Hill Glowacki Jaeger & Hughes, LLP
Tall Oaks Financial Services & Wisconsin Special Needs Advisory Group
Special Thanks to
Bruce Dimmig of the Edgewater Hotel, for his gracious assistance with our silent auction
Sue Dahlen
Jen Skolaski
Jen & Tim McDonald
And, of course,
Our fantastic Golfers & Volunteers!
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Register NOW
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Registration Now Open!
STEP UP FOR DOWN SYNDROME
Walk 2009
New Name! New Location! No Rain!
Saturday, October 10, 2009
9:30am Registration
11:00am Walk
lunch and music to follow!
Register NOW
or
Look for your brochure in the mail in early September.
This year's event will be held at our all new location:
Willow Island at the Alliant Energy Center.
Bucky, Brat Man, Maynard, Dottie T. Dot, & Happy Heart will all be there...Will you???
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3rd Annual DADS Fall Camping Trip
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UWP Owners Retreat
5 miles West of Fenimore, WI ( a quick 1 hour trip from Madison, WI)
SEPT 11, 12 & 13, 2009
Come and go as you please... come for a couple hours, a day, or
the whole weekend. This is a DADs and all children event.
Lodging options are either in the house
on lower farm, the rustic cabin, or your
own tent/camper. Indoor and outdoor
games and activities for all ages, along
with a campfire, and Saturday night
fireworks.
Bring your own sleeping bags, sheets,
pillows, and tents.
D.A.D.S. will supply food for the main
meals. Bring snacks, or preferred food
of choice for you and your flock.
R.S.V.P to Russ Krantz 608-333-7348
Russ.krantz@uwprovision.com
Or Joe Drapeau 608-358-7182 or
mailto:JDRAPEAUPIONEER@RXN.COM
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Safety Awareness for Kids 12-18
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Communication Innovations & MADSS would like to team up on a Class for kids ages 12-18 on personal safety issues such as knowing who to trust, safety in public areas and listening to your intuition.
Tentative plans include a monthly meeting.
Please contact Andrea if interested.
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Mark Your Calendars- MADSS Events Coming Up
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DADS 3rd Annual Fall Campout
Sept 11-13
DADS-only Brewers Outing
Sept 22
Step Up for Down Syndrome Walk
Saturday, October 10th, 2009
Willow Island at the Alliant Energy Center
Registration open www.firstgiving.com/MADSS
Quality IEP Workshop, in partnership with the Madison Metropolitan School District, coming in Fall 2009
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Mentoring Opportunity
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Dear
Families,
We
are writing to you to ask whether you would be interested in participating in a
program that offers UW graduate students from many departments the opportunity
to learn about issues of importance to families who have children with special
health care needs. Some of you
have helped us as mentor families in the past; others may not know about our
Maternal and Child Health-funded Leadership Program in Neurodevelopmental and
Related Disabilities, which we call MCH LEND.
For
many years, the Waisman Center MCH LEND program has benefited from our
relationships with families who have opened their homes to train and mentor our
interdisciplinary graduate students through the Family Mentor program. Year after year, family mentor has been rated by trainees as
one of the most positive and beneficial activities of their LEND training. As we survey trainee classes 5 and 10 years after their LEND
experience, they continue to note that Family Mentor was one of their most
meaningful experiences.
We
would like to ask you to consider participating in co-teaching our trainees
about issues of importance to your family. This experience is for 15 hours beginning this fall semester
and will start with a Family Mentor Orientation & Get-Together on Thursday,
October 8 at the Waisman Center for all participating families and LEND
trainees. We provide a $100 honorarium to our teaching families for their time
and sharing. We've attached a
description of the Family Mentor experience. If you are willing to be one of our mentor families this
fall, or if you have questions and would like more information, please call
Barb Wagner at 263-9672, or email
her at bwagner@waisman.wisc.edu)
and she will contact you.
Thank
you for taking the time to read about our new experience.
Sincerely,
MCH
LEND Staff
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Child Care Information Center Newsletter Now Available
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The most recent issue of the Child Care Information Center Newsletter: Children With Special Social-Emotional Needs in Child Care is posted on the CCIC website at: http://dpi.wi.gov/ccic/pdf/issue58.pdf
The issue focuses on groups of children who require adaptations in their care or more background understanding on the part of caregivers. Some of those include children with health conditions, disabilities, incarcerated parents, or parents deployed in the military. Besides annotated presentations of CCIC's library of books, videos and free articles, readers are made acquainted with upcoming technical assistance to the state provided by a grant from the Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL) at Vanderbilt University; the new vehicle alarm legislation impacting child care providers; and the Thinking Guide to Inclusion authored by Mark Sweet of Disability Rights Wisconsin. This publication is mailed to all licensed family and group child care centers in Wisconsin. Anyone in Wisconsin working in the field of child care and early childhood education may request the information resources described in the newsletter.
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Second Thursday 0-5 Playgroup
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Second Thursday Playgroup
for Chidren with Special Needs (Birth to 5)
(Siblings Welcome)
9:30-11:00am
September 10, 2009
LOCATION: Communication Innovations
2990 Cahill Main Suite 204 Fitchburg WI
Questions? Contact:
Sue LaMantia
Service Coordinator, Bridges for Families
(608) 204-6242 ext 14
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"There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom, and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else."
-Peyton C. March
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Andrea Wipperfurth
Madison Area Down Syndrome Society 
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