Thursday 4 August 2011

Helping Families with Disabled Children

A new research report aimed at improving service provision for disabled children and their families has been published by the Department for Education. The publication is co-authored by the University of Bristol, the National Centre for Social Research and the University of Warwick.

The Pink Daisy Project

Since 2008, the Pink Daisy Project has helped more than 150 women -- mostly in the form of house-cleaning assistance and gift cards for gas, groceries and restaurants.

Helping Kids to Continue

Nick Sheehan wanted to be a teacher.
The 21-year-old North High School alumnus was never a straight-A student, but he loved working with children as a counselor at the YMCA's Camp Y-Koda, helping them do more than they thought they could.