Last month The GRAND Foundation teamed up with GiveNKind in their mission to connect donors with nonprofits, to repurpose goods toward local communities, instead of landfills.
This month, The Foundation is honored to support a branch of the children’s services offered at the Vera French Foundation called Rick’s House of Hope.
Rick’s House of Hope is a center for grieving and traumatized youth that offers hope and guidance to children experiencing grief, loss or trauma issues. Services offered by Rick’s House of Hope include fall, winter and spring support groups for children of all ages and developmental levels, special holiday events for coping with that time of year, crisis debriefing for traumatic situations involving children and two one-week summer day camps.
MEETING THE MOMENT CHALLENGE
Further, the GRAND Foundation would like to highlight an initiative of the Vera French Foundation called Meeting the Moment: The 2020 Vera French Mental Health Challenge.
During Meeting The Moment: The 2020 Vera French Mental Health Challenge, people are doing JUST ONE THING EACH DAY for 45 days to invest in themselves and their mental wellness.
The experts at Vera French have identified five Key Themes For Mental Wellness to help you think of your "one thing” each day:
- Connecting (with nature and other people, especially those you may have lost touch with in your day to day routine and rush of modern life)
- Moving (physical activity which connects the mind to the body, whether it is running, yoga, walking or any other thing the person is able and comfortable doing)
- Breathing (using time tested breathing techniques and strategies to calm the mind, especially when events seem to start overwhelming you)
- Giving (whether it is a random act of kindness or a note of gratitude to someone who has helped you, science shows gratitude is good for the mind)
- Reflecting (whether it is through meditation, prayer, or quiet reminiscing about joyful memories, things which help carve out quiet time)
Click the links below to learn more about their efforts.
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