- Safe Care – working weekly in the home with parents on parenting skills. Helping parents deal with the frustration of not knowing what to do. This program works with families who have children aged 18 months to 5 years.
- Active Parenting – Sharing ways to be an effective parent. It is a group class on foundational parenting skills.
- Co-parenting classes, such as Pax Tools, to help parents with shared custody deal with this new and often awkward form of parenting.
- A weekly dad’s group – Most dad’s experience has not prepared them for being a single dad. Dad’s need support as well as skills. The need for support is reflected in the statistic that single dads are eight times more likely to commit suicide than single mom’s.
- Boot Camp for New Dad’s – How do you handle your new experience? What do you need to have with you and how do you deal with a diaper “blowout” in Target?
- Dad Share and Mom Share – How do your experiences being raised affect how you parent and try to handle and deal with parenting. How to be involved in your child’s life, such as, doctor’s visits and other health care, school activities, extra-curricular activities?
We travelled on Friday via a very comfortable Tufesa bus service motorcoach arriving about 4 hours from Tucson, checked into our clean but small hotel and then had a wonderful dinner at the home of Terri Ruiz Mendoza, Past President of the Club Rotario Hermosillo Milenio, which is the principal local partner Rotary Club for the Microcredit Project. Abe, Terri and members of FinReg and Rotario Milenio made presentations on the Project, including an excellent reason for microcredits video, Immigration, Poverty and Gumballs (short version), and slideshow, The Faces of Microcredit. We learned that the Microcredit Project, although initially funded by three Rotary Global Grants in 2014, 2015, and 2016 totaling about $277,000 as an international project between the (then) three Arizona Rotary Districts and the Club Rotario Hermosillo Pitic in Mexico, is now a self-sustaining project with the repayments of the microcredit loans used to fund and administer over $4,000,000 in loans over the nine years- it truly is a never-ending story!
- After much sharing of ideas, the consensus seemed was to continue having the event but cancel for this calendar year and try again in the spring of 2025, perhaps looking at indoor venues to preclude the possibility of another wind/rain problem.
- Amos suggested that we take out an ad of some sort to thank this year's sponsors and ticket holders, most of both which have said they don't want refunds, and to thank the restaurants
- Restaurants will also still be offered the $300 stipend promised for their participation in this year's TOVL to cover expenses they already had incurred.
- Those ticket holders who do NOT request refunds should now be able to use the entire cost of their tickets as a tax deduction.
- A suggestion was made that we ask the restaurants if they would provide a free appetizer or something else to ticket holders who do not ask for refunds and who present their 2024 TOVL ticket at their establishments.
- Members who sold tickets can refund that money, collect the refunded tickets and get reimbursed by the club, or first ask Stacey for the funds to do the refunding. Stacey will handle all requests made online for ticket refunds (only about 15 requests, so far).
- It was also agreed that we should conduct an online auction this year to help defray the loss of revenue by cancelling the event, and Barbara McClure will handle doing that.
- Our stated beneficiaries will still get benefit this year from the proceeds of the sponsorships, unrefunded ticket sales ans silent auction AFTER expenses have been paid.
- The number of people and families being served has doubled since the beginning of COVID.
- Clients in over 50 different area zip codes are being served. In addition to clients from Pima county support is being given to families in the “Copper Corridor” north to Mammoth, in Pinal county.
- In addition to the USDA once monthly emergency small supply of staples, Impact provides many other staples and nutritious foodstuffs. Also, clothing and necessities, books and small toys, are provided by our interact club for children who visit Impact.
Our Canyon del Oro Interact Club collected toys and games for IMPACT, which were given to Barbara after the meeting.
Empowering and Elevating Women in the Workplace
On 8 March, 2024, Rotary International is hosting a 60-minute panel discussion as a way to celebrate and recognize International Women’s Day, and we would love for you to join us!
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Following the event, a recording will be available to everyone who registers.