Hello Everyone,
I hope you are having a great summer so far. We are, but I can tell that the boredom is setting in, and hopefully I can make it another month with our crew, since we have an extra long summer this year.
Our next Family support group meeting is
Family Workshop-
How to talk deal with Bullies & how to talk about your TS with others
Monday August, 23rd, 2010 at 6:30-8:00
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
8250 Cornell Rd, Montgomery
The Family Workshop will be a Center/Group activity role playing how to talk or advocate for yourself, and talk about your Tourette Syndrome or your tics. Tanner will take the first 30 minutes to present the Youth Ambassador Presentation for those of you who haven't seen it, and also for the kids to see what it is like to see if they would like Tanner to come and speak to their class at the beginning of the year.
Then we will have a questions answer for the kids to Tanner about how he handles situations at school, and with his sports teams and others. Hopefully this will help the kids get some ideas of how they can approach situations.
If there is time left. We will break off into groups, and talk in small groups about different scenarios of how to handle situations. I will have slips, for the kids to draw different conflicts and how to handle them.
If you have any specific needs or issues you would like to have addressed, please email them to me and I will put them into the mix, as anonymous situations.
I hope this will give the kids a chance to think through what is coming up with the beginning of school and how to help themselves be successful.
We will have refreshments at the end- Icecream Sundaes- if you wouldn't mind RSVPing to me, if your family is planning on attending. I will have each family bring a topping for the Sundaes, and we will provide the icecream- When you RSVP I will assign you the topping to bring so we don't have to much of a good thing.
You can RSVP by replying to this email or you can text me on my cell phone- 513-569-2982
NEWS- & Upcoming ideas
TS Awareness RUN-Walk-Ride
Several families have expressed interest in doing a fundraiser by doing a run for TS or a bike for TS or something similar to that. This is a fantastic idea, and after discussing the options with The National Tourette Syndrome Association, I have found that they will actually hold an account for us to raise money for the Youth Ambassador Program even though we are not directly affiliated with the TS-Ohio chapter. So, we can take the money we raise with our runs or walks or event we decide to hold, or participate in, and send the Money to TSA National and they will put that towards helping us get the Youth Ambassador Program off and running.
If there is anyone interested in heading this up, to plan and organize this event, I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to talk to you. Please contact me and I can get you the information of how we can get started. I would very much appreciate the help and assistance in getting this off the ground and running. The more of us that are involved, the better, and we can have A LOT! of fun with this.
Grant Money for our Support Group-
I have recently found out about a few companies that are sponsoring kids for charitable events that they working to do. I am applying for a Grant at one of these companies, in hopes that we can get some money for our More than Tics Family Support Group. We are hoping by even qualifiying for the $300 grant that it will help us, fund some fun activities for the kids in the future. I am hoping that This money will help to supplement an Activity for October for a trip to the pumpkin patch or corn maze or some great event like that for Fall. This way we are able to help everyone come and enjoy.
If you know of any other opportunities, or Grants or money that may be available to help fund and support our Family Support Group, or the TS Youth Ambassador Program we would LOVE to hear about it. It is always worth a shot.
www.morethantics.blogspot.com We are excited to work cooperatively with TSA National, and appreciate their support and help in giving us ideas and keeping us informed of opportunities that will help us all. That is what it is all about. Helping each other be successful!!!
Happy Days!
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