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Cy-Hope Highlights
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Held an Upward Basketball Camp at Longhorn Hope Center.
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Hosted over 120 vendors and thousands of shoppers at our Judy Dierker Holiday Market.
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Celebrated the grand opening and ribbon cutting for The Hope Chest Resale Market.
- Hosted a BYG Events Mystery Dinner Theater benefiting Cy-Hope.
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Presented at the TASB Education Forum.
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Hosted Neon Nights to provide a safe and fun Halloween celebration for our Hope Center communities.
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Celebrated our Northwest Forest grand opening with the Cy-Fair Chamber's largest ribbon cutting yet and a presentation by Congressman McCaul.
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Received a generous $15,000 donation from Mischer Development and Cypress Creek Lakes from the 2016 Zombie Stomp.
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Provided Thanksgiving Dinner to our Hope Center communities with the help of HEB, Backyard Grill, and our wonderful volunteers.
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Took our Hope Center kids on a Houston Zoo field trip.
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Received a $15,000 donation from Home Goods & Marshall's Fairfield and Home Goods Willowbrook as part of their grand-opening celebrations.
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Received $638 from CU Alliance's silent auction.
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Held our annual Santa's Workshops for our Hope Center kids to 'shop' for gifts for their family and friends.
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Helped out by Scout Troop 901 with some groundskeeping at our Northwest Forest offices.
- Provided for 201 children and their families through our Holiday Drive - thanks to the many companies and individuals that donated and volunteered gifts and time.
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Welcomed a new Speech Therapist, Valerie Grizzaffi, M.A., CCC-SLP, to Cy-Hope Counseling.
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Said goodbye to Lauren Lake, our Program Coordinator, who will pursue a teaching career.
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Welcomed Jeanne Allain as our new Backpack Program Coordinator and Gail Murray as our new Administrator & Communications Manager.
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Spotlight on The Hope Chest Resale Market
If you haven't already, stop by and check out:
The Hope Chest Resale Market
12015 Barker Cypress Road
Cypress, TX 77433
(southwest
corner of Barker
Cypress/290)
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1.758.
1003.
The Hope Chest Resale Market is a 25,000 square foot warehouse and shopping area that benefits the programs of Cy-Hope. Don't miss the chance to experience this unique marketplace that breaks the mold of the traditional resale store!
This Cypress area "boutique style" resale market features designer clothing and home decor, as well as 7,000 square feet of furniture and outdoor equipment. Pinterest fans will love the "DIY and Repurpose Corner" where they can find treasures in need of just a little TLC! We have the "Locker Room" especially for the sports and outdoor enthusiast. Kids will enjoy browsing the cozy toy area for popular toys offered at a fraction of the retail price.
As you sort through the old to make room for the new, please consider donating items to The Hope Chest Resale Market. We will collect holiday items for next year all year long, in addition to clothing, furniture, household goods, toys, and the other items on our regular list.
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Upcoming Events
Wednesday, April 12, 11:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Westside Sporting Grounds
10120 Pattison Road, Katy, TX 77493
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Spotlight on Backpack Feeding Program
Cy-Hope currently delivers about 1,250 bags of food to 60 schools in CFISD each week.
We also recently participated in the Clean Undies For Everyone program through The Houston Food Bank. We distributed new underwear to 14 elementary and middle schools. Undies For Everyone enhances the self esteem, dignity, hygiene and success of disadvantaged students by providing them with clean, new underwear through the nurse's office should theirs become soiled while they are at school.
Jeanne Allain started in December as our new Backpack Program Coordinator. You can email her at [email protected] with questions or for information on volunteer opportunities.
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Spotlight on the Hope Centers
The Hope Centers had a fun and busy holiday season! In October, we hosted our Hope Center Halloween parties, which were full of candy, games and ice cream. We also hosted an Upward Basketball Camp and had a field trip to the Houston Zoo. In November, we served our Thanksgiving-style meal to both the Longhorn and Windfern communities and could not have done that without all of the generous volunteers who baked, cooked and purchased everything for us. A special thanks to HEB for the monetary donations and Backyard Grill for cooking the delicious turkey! In December, the kids enjoyed caroling with The Houston Choral Society. In keeping with tradition, we provided "Santa's Workshop" so every Hope Center kid could shop for gifts for their family and friends from all of our volunteers' wonderful donations. Santa also visited both Longhorn and Windfern Hope Centers in December to hand out stockings and stuffed animals to every student. We finished out the holiday season with an exciting field trip to see the Harlem Globetrotters thanks to the JJ Watt Foundation! Look for our Mobile Hope Center STEM bus this spring. For information on volunteering at our Hope Centers, please email [email protected].
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Spotlight on Cy-Hope Counseling: The Center for Children & Families
Cy-Hope Counseling has many exciting new opportunities this new year! Cy-Hope Counseling has added a speech therapist to our staff. Valerie Grizzaffi, M.A., CCC-SLP, specializes in working with receptive/expressive language delays, fluency disorders, and pragmatic and social language difficulties. She also has expertise in articulation and phonological processes disorders, where someone may pronounce words incorrectly or omit consonants, leading to a reduced intelligibility. Over the years, Valerie has worked with a variety of diagnoses and feeding disorders in children and adults of all ages. In addition, Valerie works with individuals with reading comprehension difficulties and has experience working with children and families on the autism spectrum disorder. Valerie is eager to work with a child's counselor, when applicable, in order to provide a consistent treatment plan and collaborate with sessions. Valerie is currently offering a promotion for FREE speech and language screening this January. In addition, Cy-Hope Counseling will offer dyadic speech therapy and group therapy with a speech therapist and counselor. Call 713.466.1360 today to reserve your spot!
Cy-Hope Counseling also has some new support groups:
Upper Elementary Social Skills Group
The group will be fun and interactive, designed to help children identify their emotions, increase social communication skills, and learn strategies to better manage their reactions. This group will be run by a licensed counselor and licensed speech therapist.
Social Skills Support: Learning to get Comfortable in Your Own Skin- Junior High and High School
This peer and social group is designed to build self-confidence and improve social skills. It is designed to be fun and interactive, using video games and other activities adolescents enjoy. The group is designed for high-functioning individuals on the autism spectrum, teenagers who experience social anxiety, adolescents with AD/HD or anyone looking to build their social interactions in a fun and exciting way.
New members are accepted into the group each month!
A Therapeutic Support Group for Mothers of Children with Special Needs: A Common Thread
Led by Courtney Suddath, MA, LSSP, LPC, this supportive therapeutic group will focus on creating a safe and understanding environment in which to address the unique experiences of mothers of children with special needs. The goal of this group will be for women to share experiences with one another in a confidential and supportive environment, while gaining insight from other members in a similar situation. Group members will be encouraged to process and discuss social and emotional situations they face with their children, while learning about strategies that can be used by the parent themselves, as well as other important people in their child's life. The small-group environment will allow the benefit of individualized problem-solving opportunities as well as having a peer group and licensed counselor available as support.
Couple's Check-In
Give the gift of love and happiness this Valentine's season with a couple checkup. Have a session with a licensed marriage therapist to talk about the strength and growth areas in your relationship. Find ways to reignite your spark or reconnect.
Call 713.466.1360 to sign up for any of our therapies or groups.
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Cy-Hope Counseling: The Center for Children & Families is pleased to
offer:
$25 off all couples counseling appointments when you schedule the intake in January
Please call 713.466.1360 to make an initial appointment and mention this coupon. (Limited to New Clients)
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