August/September Newsletter

2022

2,413

Total Families Supported

since

January 2018

This month:

Carson's Village Golf Tournament

North Texas Giving Day

Carson's Village at HISD

Volunteer Opportunity

Peer 2 Peer Launch

Advocate Spotlights

Dealing with Loss at School

Golfers: Save the Date!

The Carson’s Village Annual Golf Tournament is just around the corner on Friday, September 16, 2022, at Bear Creek Golf Club in Dallas, Texas. Sign up now and explore sponsorship opportunities for your company here.

The event begins with lunch at 12:30 and a shotgun start at 1:30 followed by dinner and prizes.

Many thanks to our amazing sponsors. This is Carson’s Village’s largest fundraiser and allows us to serve families throughout the country at their greatest time of need. We are grateful to:

Title sponsors: United Healthcare and Blue Cross Blue Shield

Hole sponsors: Authentic Web Solutions, Jesses A/C &Appliance Service, Leadership Dallas - Class of 2022, Lighthouse Real Estate Group, Lockton Dunning Benefits, Metrocare, Ryan Grubbs Mortgage Team, S3Santa's Workshop, Seller’s Drywall, Vitro Architectural Glass

Join us today!

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North Texas Giving Day is 9-22-22

North Texas Giving Day is an annual online giving event designed to empower every person to give back to their community by supporting local nonprofits and causes they care about using one easy-to-use platform. North Texas Giving Day is the largest community-wide giving event in the nation and builds awareness and support for nonprofits. The average nonprofit raises $19,608, but we are not the ‘average’ nonprofit. So, we are setting our goal to be $25,000. Please help us achieve that by creating a fundraising page that you can send out to your network or contact us for a yard sign. Thank you for your support!

Donate here

Carson's Village CEO and Founder, Jason Dyke, attended the HISD Wraparound Services Learning Conference on Aug. 9, 2022. Jason is pictured with Antoneshia Stewart, Manager, HISD Wraparound Services.

Expanding The Village: Houston ISD

Thanks to our partnership with Katherine Smith, Executive Director of the HISD foundation and her staff, Carson’s Village is providing education and support to the Houston Independent School District’s students, families, and staff. By providing valuable resources to those who have experienced sudden loss and need a village of support; we are that village.

Carson’s Village has assigned an Advocate, Michelle, to the Houston ISD to assist referred families with making final arrangements, resource referral, and grief and bereavement support. Michelle has also been collaborating with various departments within the district, including the Social Work, Social and Emotional Learning, Crisis and Behavioral Intervention, Wraparound, and the Family and Community Engagement departments to educate and inform the faculty and staff of Houston ISD how Carson’s Village can benefit the school district and its stakeholders. Additionally, we have created a customized landing webpage with resources specifically designed for HISD that can be accessed by HISD employees.

Carson’s Village is eager to continue to support the students, faculty, and staff in the 2022-2023 school year, further cultivate relationships with each campus and department, and be the necessary Village for the Houston ISD community.

Carson's Village Volunteer Opportunity

Interested in a hands-on opportunity to help Carson's Village with day-to-day operations?

We are looking for volunteers to help with our family intake process by taking incoming calls to our helpline. For more information, email our Outreach Coordinator below.

Want to volunteer? Email us here!

P2P Program Launched!

Our unique P2P program has begun and our first Peer and Villager have been matched! Our Peers are our families who are currently suffering from a loss. Our Villagers are our volunteers who have already experienced a loss and can support and mentor Peers who are actively grieving. If you need the support of a trained Villager, please contact us so we can get you the help you need. If you are interested in becoming a Villager, click here for more information. This experience is transformational for both our Peers and our Villagers.

FROM HURTING TO HEALING TO HELPING

P2P Villager Information