Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends, supporters, and partners. This year we have so much to be thankful for. Safety – safe homes, safe people who love and support us, systems that are in place to ensure that everyone is safe. Families – whatever they look like, however they came together, and whenever they found each… Read More »
Lund News
Congratulations to Lund’s Adoption Team and DCF!
Lund’s adoption team and the Vermont Department for Children and Families have been awarded the 2019 Drenda Lakin Memorial Award from Voice for Adoption, a national adoption advocacy organization. This award is given to non-profits, organizations or individuals in recognition of their efforts to provide valuable adoptive family support after adoptions are finalized. Lund and DCF… Read More »
“Family Matters” – National Adoption Month 2019
November marks the start of the holiday season, but it’s important to remember that November is also National Adoption Month! National Adoption Month is chance to show extra initiative in educating communities through programs and activities to help spread awareness about the 123,000 children and youth nationwide waiting to join their forever families. For this… Read More »
Getting together…
Once a year the Lund staff comes together as a team to learn, celebrate, reflect and enjoy time together as a team. It cannot, however, ever be a meeting of every single staff member since Lund’s residential program does not close. Some staff members split the day and spend half at the retreat, and half… Read More »
“Close your eyes, it’s sleepy time” – The Lullaby Project at Lund
The hallways at Lund’s residential program have been ringing and trilling lately with the sweet sounds of the mandolin and gentle piano notes. Lund has partnered with Vermont group Scrag Mountain Music and Writers for Recovery to participate in Carnegie Hall’s Lullaby Project. This project pairs professional musicians with new and expecting mothers to create unique… Read More »
Discovery Preschool goes back in time…
Last month, the Discovery Preschool held a Renaissance Fayre family night. This was a chance for parents and caregivers to spend some time at the program, share food and participate in activities that reflected the preschoolers current interest in castle, dragons, potions, fairies, princesses and all things medieval or fairy tale. They constructed a castle… Read More »
Vermont Kin as Parents Award Winners!
Vermont Kin as Parents is an organization committed to supporting relatives who are raising children and to educate the public and community partners about the joys and difficulties these families experience. The organization was formed in the fall of 2005 after the success of a conference for and about relatives who were raising the children of others that… Read More »
Congratulations Christina Shuma – 2019 Angel in Adoption!
It is with great honor that we can announce that Christina Shuma has been awarded the Congressional Angel in Adoption Award for the State of Vermont for 2019. Angels in the Adoption are celebrated for making extraordinary contributions to adoption, permanency, and child welfare. Christina will be honored at a Gala in Washington DC in November. Christina has worked… Read More »
ANNUAL REPORT SPOTLIGHT: Collaboration
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.– Helen Keller Lund is proud to work with over 58 state agencies and other nonprofit organizations every year to help bring hope to communities, opportunity to families, and family to children. We could not do the amazing work we do every year without… Read More »
September is National Recovery Month
“National Recovery Month (Recovery Month) is a national observance held every September to educate Americans that substance use treatment and mental health services can enable those with a mental and/or substance use disorder to live a healthy and rewarding life.” -From the National Association for Addiction Professionals website. National Recovery Month presents an important opportunity… Read More »
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- …
- 20
- Next Page »
