Holiday Gifts Needed

 

Family Continuity currently operates 4 residential programs and one therapeutic foster care program in our North Shore area.  Most of our residential clients are teenagers and older adults; two age groups that receive limited attention during the holidays.  We want to ensure that our clients are able to have a 'normal' holiday by having a gift or two for them to open and a nice dinner for the group to have together. 
 
Gift cards are urgently needed to ensure we are able to fulfill our goal this year.  We are looking for gift cards to stores like: Bed Bath and Beyond, Target, Wal-Mart, Kohl's, Barnes and Noble, Borders, GameSmart, Bob's Stores, Simon Malls, Newbury Comics, etc. 
 
Gift cards to Market Basket, Shaw's or Stop and Shop are also needed to purchase a holiday dinner for each of our 4 homes. 
 
We are always in need of new twin size bedding, pillows and towels. 
 
We have a total of 55 clients that we are looking to supply gifts to this holiday season.  Please help us make the holiday a bit brighter for our clients!
 
Send your gifts to: Family Continuity Development Office, 60 Perseverance Way, 2nd floor, Hyannis, MA 02601 Attn: Ginny Irving.  For more information please call Ginny Irving at 508-815-5120.  All donations will be delivered to our programs by Friday, December 18th. 

 

Win a Family Vacation!

 

New Date- 

Lawrence Office is Moving

 

 

Building 9

3rd floor

Lawrence, MA 01843.

 

We are thrilled to be moving into a larger space in the RiverWalk Properties.  Stay tuned for news about our Open House! 

Congratulations to Express Yourself!

This November 4th, after a national nomination and evaluation process, Express Yourself received the 2009 President's Council on the Arts and Humanities 'Coming Up Taller Award'.  The Coming Up Taller Award recognizes and supports outstanding community arts and humanities programs that celebrate the creativity of America's young people, provide them learning opportunities and chances to contribute to their communities. The award focuses national attention on exemplary programs currently fostering the creative and intellectual development of America's children and youth through education and practical experience in the arts and the humanities. Accompanied by a $10,000 cash award, the Coming Up Taller Awards not only reward these projects with recognition, but also contribute significant support to their continued work.
 

Read more and see photos. 

 

Loving Families Needed

 

 

 

We are in need of the following items.  If you are interested in donating an item, please call Ginny Irving at 508-815-5120 or email girving@familycontinuity.org.

 

Diapers and pull-ups- Hyannis office

 

Volunteer Leadership-agency wide

 

Office furniture-desks, tables, chairs, filing cabinets- for our Whitinsville Office 

 

Sporting Equipment- for our program in Lynn

 

 

 

 

Family Continuity is grateful to have the support of the following companies for our Family Support Fund and/or our Family Vacation Prize Package:

 

Santa's Village, NH

Story Land, NH

Hy-Line Cruises

Steamship Authority

Willis HRH

Tobin and Sons Moving and Storage

 

We appreciate their support in meeting our mission to support family success in every community!  

 

 

Real Stories are submitted by clients who want to share the success they had thanks to the support and services provided by Family Continuity.   

 

Jimmy's Story
 
I am writing a letter to thank you for your efforts to help my son access typical activities his brother has always been able to attend. Jimmy is autistic and has difficulty being in large groups especially those that may have lots sensory things happening. Over the years we have tried unsuccessfully to take him to a movie or other everyday events.

 

Eventually my son was referred to one of your wrap around programs to assist us. The Wrap team told us about the various services they offer to families like their quarterly movie day. We politely turned them down letting them know that "we have been there done that" and it was a disaster. We explained to them the following example; One day Jimmy asked if we could take him to see a movie that had been advertised on television. He pleaded with us to go so we planned it on a day when there would not be many people at the theatre. As the movie started my husband and I thought this may work as we watched Jimmy with a huge smile on his face. Unfortunately within twenty minutes the sound got louder and then the sound was too loud he began to get upset and started to cry.
 
We could see that Jimmy was really trying his hardest to overcome the noise but it was just too difficult. To make matters worse a couple of people in the theatre started to shush Jimmy. Unfortunately we felt we needed to leave at that point. As a family with two sons it is difficult and heartbreaking for us to be able to bring one of our sons to a movie but have to leave Jimmy at home. That is until the Wrap Around program came into our lives.