Ways To Help
As you settled in and closed your eyes to sleep last night, not far from your home, there were children lying awake. Maybe they were afraid because they’d been left home alone again. Or maybe they were fearful because they weren’t alone. Or perhaps they were too sad, or too full of rage or too depressed to sleep.
You – you – can absolutely help these children enjoy the untroubled sleep that every child deserves. You may not be able to enter their bedrooms smooth their blankets, or tuck in a favorite stuffed animal, but you have what it takes. Get involved and make a difference!
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Volunteers make a big difference at Child Guidance. They spend time mentoring children and provide life enhancing and learning activities. They offer support and friendship to first-time mothers through weekly phone calls. They knit baby layettes for newborns in low-income families. They do office work, allowing staff to spend more time helping children. They share their professional knowledge and expertise as Board members or on specific projects. They help organize and stage fundraising and other Clinic activities. Volunteers come here to the clinic or they devote time from home. They work one hour a week or one hour a month. They give what they can and we are so grateful for their commitment. Investigar bonos casinos para ti
We have many
volunteer opportunities for individuals or groups. Please contact our
Development Office at (203) 756-7287, ext. 109 or via email to
Development@waterburychildguidance.com to find out how
you can make a difference.
Volunteer advocates for the Clinic help others understand what we do at Child Guidance and why we do it. They start by learning about the services we offer and why they are needed in our community. When they share this knowledge with friends, relatives, neighbors, business colleagues, fellow club or association members and others in casual conversation, they raise community awareness and offer Child Guidance as a resource. It’s as simple as that.
People who hear our story, especially from someone they know and respect, are more likely to:
- Recognize when a child needs help
- Get help themselves when they need it
- Encourage others in trouble to get help
If you would like to help the people you know and Child Guidance as you go about your normal routine, please contact our Development Office at (203) 756-7287, ext. 109 or via email to Development@waterburychildguidance.com.
At Child Guidance we believe that all children deserve help when they need it. They deserve to be loved and protected, happy and hopeful. Last year, more than 80% of the children treated at Child Guidance lived at or below poverty level and could not afford the cost of their care. Even so, they received the very best, thanks to the generosity of many individuals, civic organizations, businesses, corporations and foundations that believe like us and cared enough to make a difference.
Do you believe? A donation to Child Guidance is an investment in the lives of our children and the betterment of our community. It’s an easy, two step process. Choose a program area to support and then make an online contribution through Network for Good using the link below, or mail cash or check along with a contribution form (see below).
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Choose a program area to support;
Crisis and Treatment Services for Children. A 14-year-old can learn that suicide isn’t the answer. A child can recover from abuse. A child can learn to control aggression and stay in school before a damaging cycle repeats itself. It takes time, and they need help. Our help and yours.
Our Family Life Center serves first-time parents who, due to personal and environmental stressors, are finding parenting an overwhelming challenge. We give them coping skills to actively combat incidents of child abuse and neglect. These parents are working to make their family’s life better, but they need your help.
Paladin House offers young boys intense psychological treatment and therapeutic support in a home-like residence. These children have suffered extreme trauma. They need to learn how to live as a responsible, involved member of a family and community. Our boys need everything, even something as ordinary as a bike, to “be like the normal kids.” Please help them get there.
A program encompassing gift to the Clinic will automatically be directed to support the children and families we see to be in the greatest need.
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Make a generous donation by following either of the two links below and give children and families a real chance.
"Network for Good" online donation link:
Our contribution form
Please mail to:
Child Guidance Clinic of Greater Waterbury
Development Office
70 Pine Street
Waterbury, CT, 06710
Donating an item on our wish list is a great way for you to help the children in our care. Contributions such as those listed below help us stretch limited resources to meet growing needs. Consider making a difference by hosting a baby shower, birthday party or other event with items noted below as admission to benefit the children helped at Child Guidance. For more information, please contact our Development Office at (203) 756-7287, ext. 109 or via e-mail at Development@waterburychildguidance.com.
Items for newborns will be shared with families participating in programs at our Family Life Center. By supporting new parents and working with them to reduce stressors, we diminish the instance and severity of child abuse and neglect. Newborn hats, blankets, formula and other layette items give babies a good, healthy start in life.
Clothes, toys, games, books, CD’s, sporting goods… all of the things that most young boys take for granted are in short supply at Paladin House, our therapeutic group home. Your contribution can make this house a home for boys, ages 9-13, who are suffering the effects of severe trauma.
Art supplies are used routinely by our clinical staff to reach and understand children who have difficulty verbalizing their thoughts and feelings. Gifts of crayons, markers, art paper, glue, play doh, blank books, water colors, etc. can help shorten a child’s road to a brighter future.
Computer equipment and supplies are needed to keep pace as we continually grow programs and staffing levels to meet the needs of our children. If you have computer equipment you’d like to donate, please confirm technical compatibility with Arina Medovnikov at (203) 756-7287, ext. 130 or via e-mail to amedovnikov@waterburychildguidance.com.
There’s no end to the good you can do.
Connecticut’s LEAVE A LEGACY® urges people to
leave their mark on the community.
The Child Guidance Clinic of Greater Waterbury is a participant in LEAVE A LEGACY® Connecticut, a statewide public awareness effort to promote charitable giving through wills and estates.”
For the most part, Connecticut is a generous state. Each year, 72% of our residents leave money to charities. But only 5.7 percent leave charitable bequests in their wills. The number one reason for this gap: most people say they were never asked, or didn’t think about it.
LEAVE A LEGACY® Connecticut is a statewide public awareness effort to promote charitable bequests. The campaign encourages people to make gifts from their estates to their favorite nonprofit organizations. We urge people to discuss their intentions with financial and estate planners who specialize in this field. Many estate-planning professional organizations are a part of LEAVE A LEGACY®’s collaborative efforts, as are more than 640 Connecticut nonprofit organizations.
“Everyone can help, regardless of income, and each gift makes an impact,” says Lyn Walker, co-chair of LEAVE A LEGACY® Connecticut and a partner at Day, Berry & Howard.
In 1974, Miss Marjorie Hayden generously bequeathed her properties to the Child Guidance Clinic in perpetuity. Today and forever, the real estate she donated will serve as our main campus and the foundation of services to over 5,000 children. Consider including the Child Guidance Clinic of Greater Waterbury in your will. Like Miss Hayden, you can continue to make a difference and help improve the lives of generations of children.
To find out more:
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Contact our Development Office at phone number (203) 756-7287, ext. 109 or email us at Development@waterburychildguidance.com; or
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Visit the LEAVE A LEGACY® Connecticut web site at http://www.leavealegacyct.org; or
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Call the United Way Infoline at 211.
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