Childhaven Giving Tree at Bodytonic Pilates!
Childhaven‘s programs are designed to help abused, neglected and at-risk children form healthy emotional attachments, learn to know and trust adults and develop interactive skills necessary to form other secure relationships. Many of Childhaven’s children have experienced neglect or abuse due in large part to their parents’ untreated substance abuse, mental illness or abuse and neglect they experienced as a child.
Childhaven’s four branch centers provide therapeutic child care and earlyhood education to babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. Each branch offers health screening, two balanced meals per day and a snack, outdoor and indoor play areas, door-to-door transportation, monthly home visits and daily home monitoring. And, they work with parents to help them gain the skills and confidence they need to raise happy, healthy children.
Every year 500 children come through Childhaven’s doors needing very specialized care to help them overcome the trauma of a life of abuse and neglect. For many of those kids, Childhaven is the only place where they’ve known unconditional love.
This season Bodytonic is hosting a Childhaven Giving Tree. The giving tree has ornaments that are assigned to children who receive support at Childhaven. This year the ornaments are very special; all of the ornaments are listed with children’s books picked out especially by Childhaven staff. The books will be given to Childhaven families to support literacy and parent-child bonding. Please help us support children and parents in need this season!
Choose an ornament and pick an item listed on it and return it unwrapped with ornament/tag attached to Bodytonic by December 20th.
This has been a hard time of the year for many people, help make our world a brighter place by spreading kindness & compassion!
