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Midway Head Start Wraps Up a Great Year!
Midway Head Start wrapped up it's year with a day of fun activities. Head Start is a national program which focuses on activities that engage children’s thinking skills such as art, blocks, computers and group time combine with play to cultivate children’s development. Midway Head Start offers a.m. and p.m. sessions for qualifying children ages 3-5. For more information, please contact Midway Head start at 773-737-4790.
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-Posted June 28, 2010
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What is the Clothesline Project?
The Clothesline Project is a visual display that calls attention to violence against women. The project displays shirts designed by woman survivors of violence and families/friends of woman victims of violence. The shirts hang side-by-side to "Break the Silence" and to bear witness to violence against women.
The project focuses on providing healing for survivors of violence, educating the public about violence, and providing solutions through individual action to prevent violence.
Midway Children’s Clothesline Project
Midway’s Family Violence Intervention Program facilitates group counseling for child witnesses of domestic violence. In October, children in our groups create paper t-shirts which tell their story of domestic violence. These shirts are displayed to raise awareness about the impact of domestic violence on children.
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Claremont Kids Get Cooking!
Claremont Community School participated in a class exchange field trip with another school this fall. Two schools from different Chicago neighborhoods were paired in an effort to build tolerance and respect between the children and communities. The exchange trip involved 32 children cooking a healthy, ethnic meal together using the skills they had learned in Common Threads after-school classes. This special experience was held at Kennedy King College.
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One Kid + One Kitchen = One World Discovered We are Common Threads. Common Threads teaches low-income children to cook wholesome and affordable meals because they believe that through hands-on cooking classes they can help prevent childhood obesity and reverse the trend of generations of non-cookers, all while celebrating cultural differences and the things people all over the world have in common.
-Posted May 6, 2010
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MFS Staff Jennifer Alexander Featured in Illinoisisbroke.com Video
As the State of Illinois budget crisis resurfaces in the news Program Manager Jennifer Alexander helped shed light on the devastating impact that expected human services budget cuts will have on families in a video that will be posted on www.illinoisisbroke.com, a website initiated by the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago. Clients at our North Children’s Center also were interviewed as part of the taping. Click here to see the video!
-Posted April 15, 2010
MOMS Provides Parenting Tips
Metropolitan Family Services’ MOMS program works with pregnant and parenting teens in Chicago Public High Schools. MOMS provides group sessions to facilitate healthy parent involvement with their children, avoid unplanned second pregnancies, support academic success and prevent child abuse. As part of the effort to prevent child abuse and enhance parent-child interactions, the MOMS group at Gage Park High School has put together a list of parenting tips. Click here to view the tips or follow the instructions below:
WEEK OF THE YOUNG CHILD "The Early Years Are the Learning Years"
April 12 through April 16 is Week of the Young Child! This is a special week that honors young children and thanks teachers and all of those who make a difference in the lives of young children. Click here for the special activities occurring at Midway Children's Center for WEEK OF THE YOUNG CHILD! Click here for activities happening at Midway Head Start!
-Posted April 8, 2010
FREE LEGAL SERVICES
The REACH Legal Clinic is a collaborative effort between Metropolitan's Legal Aid Bureau, Greater Southwest Development Corp.'s REACH Center and Marquette Bank to bring legal resources in the areas of family, housing, and consumer law to the Midway Community. The clinic is held the 2nd Saturday of the month, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the Marquette Bank branch located at 6155 S. Pulaski, 2nd floor. To receive an appointment or for more information, please call 773-884-2284.
-Posted April 7, 2010
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