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With your help Angel Reach is touching lives everyday |
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Notes to Share From My Desk:
Patricia Johnson, Kinship Director
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We are bursting at the seams thinking of activities for you and your youth this summer. Kinship staff and a host of volunteers are waiting to engage with you other than at the Pantry and Shared Treasures. While both places are extremely important to your household, the kinship resource center would like to be just as important. We are able to help you find the needed resources to strengthen and provide for your family. We have developed programs to keep everyone active and informed.
Let us review what has been happening:
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Bette Lanahan has been available on Wednesday for Budgeting Classes.
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Shellee Coley has held music classes weekly. There has been one Saturday music camp.
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Finally, cooking with Phyllis on Wednesday mornings.
What is coming next to the kinship resource center?
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Reading Groups for ages 5 and 6. This group will be scheduled to come to the Pauline location weekly.
- Books will be assigned to the reading Club with a deadline for completion.
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Reading Clubs for 7 and 10
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Reading Clubs 11 and 15
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Reading Clubs 16 and up
Why would your youth want to read this summer? First, it will keep them ahead of their class in reading. Secondly, there will be incentives based on the club’s AGE group.
Please contact Bette Lanahan or myself if your child is interested in participating in this summer reading event.
How does a day of summer camp in a therapeutic environment, surrounding by trees, the lake, animals, structured activities and good food sound? In order to arrange this event, I need to hear from you. Individuals have signed up to attend events in the past, but for one reason or another did not make it. I would like Angel Reach Kinship families to get the chance to sign up first. Keep in mind that at least one parent will need to attend with their child(ren).
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FUN THINGS HAPPENING AT KINSHIP!
DID YOU MISS OUT ON THEM?
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Ten Kinship Youth participated in this Annual Event. This year’s event was held at the Walter P Jett Center on Lewis St. Conroe, Texas 77301. Thank you to the Leadership Montgomery County and CASA Child Advocates of Montgomery County for bringing knowledge regarding Nutrition, Legal Matters, Finances, Laundry, Vehicle Maintenance and First Aid to those in attendance. This was the first year that Angel Reach Kinship Youth had their own location for this event. |
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Learning to play a musical instrument can be challenging, but not for the four that attended the Music Camp held on April 17, 2021. This young group of people had a blast learning to play the instruments. They ended the session by singing a song learned on the various instruments. |
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For many years now, Ms. Billie has been faithfully creating the Kinship newsletter for you! Sadly to us, she and her husband have decided to move back to Michigan. Can you imagine? Move back to the cold, snow and shoveling?!!! We will miss you Ms Billie, and wish you a wonderful and fun-filled retirement "up north".
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EASY SLOW COOKER
CHICKEN TACOS
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Prep: 10 mins
Cook: 5 hrs
Total: 5 hrs 10 mins
Servings: 8
Yield: 8 servings
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INGREDIENTS CHECKLIST
- 1 ½ (16 ounce) packages chicken breast tenderloins
- 1 (1 ounce) package taco seasoning
- 1 (16 ounce) container mango-peach salsa
- 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper, or to taste
- 1 teaspoon chili powder, or to taste
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- 1 teaspoon garlic powder, or to taste
- salt to taste
- 1 (20 ounce) can pineapple chunks, drained with juice reserved
- 1 medium onion, sliced
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Directions
Instructions Checklist
· Step 1
Place chicken in a bowl and sprinkle with taco seasoning. Mix until coated and transfer into a slow cooker. Add salsa, cayenne pepper, chili powder, garlic powder, and salt; mix to combine.
· Step 2
Cover and cook on Low until chicken is ready to shred, 4 to 5 hours. Remove chicken, shred with 2 forks, and return to the slow cooker.
· Step 3
Break up the pineapple chunks and add them to the slow cooker with 1/4 cup of pineapple juice (or more to taste) and onion slices. Cook on Low until sauce is bubbling and fragrant, 1 to 2 hours.
After the mixture is cooked, fill flour tortillas with it (hard shells are great, too), add shredded Cheddar cheese on the top, and shredded lettuce. Yum!
Cook's Note:
The number of servings is dependent on how many tacos each and how full the tacos are. We made about 14 to 15 tacos total out of this recipe.
Nutrition Facts
Per Serving:
317 calories; protein 18.3g; carbohydrates 44.3g; fat 8.3g; cholesterol 47.8mg; sodium 941.7mg.
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Tuesday Morning:
9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Drive by only.
Food Pantry is located at
1107 N. San Jacinto
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Questions?
Kinship Director Patricia Johnson: patricia.johnson@angelreach.org
Please do not come to the Food Pantry before 9:30am on Tuesdays.
If you have an emergency, please reach out to Bette Lanahan.
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If you have sick kids, doctor appointments, or are unable to pick up due to conflicts on Tuesdays from 9:30am-12:00 pm, we can assist you!
We offer easy ordering on-line. Please submit order by Monday at 10 am.
You simply fill out an order form and we will pull your groceries and have your grocer time that is convenient for you or possibly a home delivery as well. Groceries ordered on-line can be picked up in the tent after noon on Tuesdays.
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Please help today by making a donation to Angel Reach. Every penny goes directly to helping better the lives of abused and neglected children and young adults in our community who are lost and alone. From all of us at Angel Reach, thank you. |
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"Angel Reach's mission is to break the generational cycle of abuse, neglect, and homelessness by equipping aged-out foster youth and homeless youth to live independently as well as providing critical services and support to relatives doing their best to keep children out of the foster care system"
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About Angel Reach
Angel Reach, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) faith-based nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of families caring for abused and neglected foster children and also for young people who have aged out of the foster care system who are at risk for homelessness. Angel Reach empowers young people to be the best they can be.
© 2020 Angel reach Inc. All rights reserved.
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