When You or Someone You Care About Needs Help

Remember, if you need to see me and I'm not in my office, you may leave me a note in the grey box located beside my office door. It is locked and only I have the key. I check it frequently throughout the day.

Leave me a message, whether this is an emergency, your contact information, and your name. I'll get to you as soon as possible.

Need help?

We all go through tough times of one kind or another.

If you need help with any of the following,

please let me know, and we'll try to meet your need.

Food

clothing

basic school supplies

health care

Prom Dresses

These places are resources for you, too.

Coming next summer...Camp Alex

Campers will have the opportunity to take advantage of the wonderful facilities offered at Ferncliff for a summer camp experience they will never forget. Camp Alex provides an exclusive opportunity for ages 10-17 who are loss survivors of suicide (family member and/or close friend). Therapeutic delivery is provided by well known and highly regarded Grief Counselor, Greg Adams. "Greg Time" quickly becomes one of the camper's favorite events and the kids absolutely love Greg (as do all of us). An annual event sponsored by the Alex Blackwood Foundation for HOPE, Camp Alex is a summer camp opportunity that provides help, hope and healing for an at risk population of loss survivors.

Additional information and on-line registration is available at: www.AlexBlackwoodFoundation.org

Thanks for sharing and Thanks for caring. Together, may we continue to deliver HOPE one precious person at a time.

Steven Blackwood, Loss Survivor

Prevention Advocate & Peer Specialist with Lived Experience

Phone

888.901.5554​

​AlexBlackwoodFoundation.org

The Beebe Christian Outreach Center has food and clothing. They are open Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays from 9 until noon.

Badger Food Pantry

The third Wednesday of each month is the distribution day for families to come to the Food Pantry between 8:30 and 1:30. The pantry is located in the portable buildings behind Badger Elementary.

AR Care locations offer physicians' service on a sliding scale.

AR Kids1st Insurance for qualifying students under the age of 19.

National Runaway Switchboard- http://www.1800runaway.org/

Call 1-800- RUNAWAY if you are thinking of running from home, of if you have a friend who has runaway, or if you are a runaway and need help. Thanks to NRS’ Home Free Program, in collaboration with Greyhound Lines, Inc., more than 15,000 youth have been reunited with family members free of charge. The first step to begin the Home Free process is to call 1-800-RUNAWAY.

National Suicide Hotline - 1-800-273-TALK (8255)

halfofus.com is a great website for helping someone who is dealing personally or has a friend dealing with issues such as depression, eating disorders, suicidal thoughts, self-injury, lonliness, anxiety...you name it. There are resources, personal stories, videos, facts, and suggestions on what to say and how to help.

Arkansas Children's Hospital Center for Good Mourning

The mission of the Center for Good Mourning is to provide, improve and increase support and assistance to bereaved children and families in Arkansas through education, program development, and grief support programs.

Grief Support Groups are free educational support groups for young people who have experienced the death of someone close to them. The purpose is to help young people cope with their feelings of grief and loss in a supportive setting with similar age peers. Each group is set up by age and has approximately 6-10 children or teens. The groups meet in 8 weekly sessions. A Parent Orientation meeting takes place prior to the start of each 8-week group series. An optional group for parents and adult caregivers in also available during the 8-week program. All groups will meet in the East Campus building of Arkansas Children's Hospital, 1621 W. 10th Street, Little Rock, AR. Interested parents and adult caregivers can call 501-364-7000 to request an application, or can print an application off the website at www.goodmourningcenter.org.

Spring 2018 Grief Support Groups: The next series of Good Mourning Grief Support Groups will be held each Tuesday from March 27, 2018, through May 15, 2018, with a Parent Orientation on Tuesday, March 13, 2018.

With one week until the Parent Orientation for the spring Good Mourning Grief Support Groups, we have room and are still accepting applications for all ages, pre-K through high school.

http://www.archildrens.org/health-and-wellness/the-center-for-good-mourning/support-groups/support-groups

Military One Source

Real help- any time, anywhere at no cost to you, for active-duty, Guard and Reserve (regardless of your activation status) and their families.

This is an online connection for you to locate help in the following areas:

• consultations, research and referrals for things as diverse as child care, relationship issues, budget issues, communication skills, etc.

• in-person counseling (non-medical)

• Healthy Habits coaching by telephone or online

• financial counseling

• educational materials for such things as resume building, sleeping better, loans, etc.

Go to MilitaryOneSource.com or call 1-800-342-9647.

It's free, private, and 24/7.