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Fundraiser for The Family Center/La Familia

9/24/2019

What you should know:

Most people don't realize the severity of our childcare challenges in Colorado. You may be surprised to learn that:

Colorado Is a 'Child Care Desert' meaning that there is an undersupply of care for young children. *source: AmericanProgress.org
2019 statistics show that 51% of all families In Colorado live in a child care desert. Larimer County is one of the counties MOST AFFECTED. *source: ChildCareDeserts.org
Low availability and high costs of child care keep families from the middle class in Northern Colorado *source: Coloradoan article
Colorado is one of the states with the HIGHEST COST of child care. *source: CNBC
Colorado preschool teachers in district-run schools made $30,500 on average -- nearly $22,000 less than public elementary school teachers (and significantly under the national average) *source: The Colorado Sun
Nearly 9 out of 10 single mothers of color with a young child have income that is inadequate to cover basic needs *source: The Women's Foundation of Colorado

The Family Center /La Familia is making an incredible impact regarding these challenges: *source: 2018 statistics

Annually, our sliding fee program helps children distributing nearly $100,000 in scholarships.
Our childhood program serves nearly 70 children per day during the school year and over 50 per day over the summer.
We are expanding – adding a new preschool classroom expected to open in the Fall of 2019.
We are the only non-profit childcare provider in our region that offers full wrap around services from infant to adult that benefit the whole family.
We have helped 230 families with utility assistance totaling $70,000.
Our advocacy closet assists over 150 families each year with diapers and basic hygiene products.
We are the only non-profit In Northern Colorado the specifically serves the Latinx community.
Our community garden provides families with fresh vegetables. We also use this produce in our kitchen to create meals for the children in our early childhood program.
Our family development program has over 40 families that our advocates see on a regular monthly basis and many more for periodic resource and referral or crisis intervention.

With your support, we can grow our non-profit program, allowing parents to work/attend school, afford childcare, receive resources and assistance, and pay fair wages to our valuable staff. All we do for our Northern Colorado families is done through the focus of our core values:
Trust - Compassion - Diversity - Equity - Inclusion - Love

My Big Day was so thrilled to be asked to put on the big annual fundraiser for this non-profit!

The Family Center/La Familia serves Northern Colorado in a number of capacities.

Surprising statistics are listed below, along with photos by Derek Kaufman Photography.

You can support The Family Center/La Familia in a number of ways. Visit their website to learn more:

The Family Center/ La Familia
(970) 221-1615
309 Hickory Street #5 Fort Collins, CO 80524
www.thefamilycenterfc.org

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Setting Out To Break a World Record

2/1/2019

Have you heard our big news yet?
This month we are setting out to break a world record in Northern Colorado!

Guinness World Record: Longest Line of Toothbrushes

Did you know that pediatric dental disease, also known as childhood tooth decay, is the #1 chronic childhood illness in America? Or that 1 in 5 U.S. children go without dental care? Or that more than 40% of children have dental cavities by the time they reach kindergarten?

I didn’t. Here at Change Gangs, we want to support charities that make a big impact on people’s lives, and it turns out that something as small as a toothbrush, can make a pretty big impact.

That’s because children with poor oral health are 3 times more likely to miss school as a result of dental pain. If they do go to school, the pain can make it difficult to pay attention and learn. And the feelings of shame and low self-esteem that children often feel when they have bad teeth can make it hard for them to fully participate in school and build the social skills that will help them succeed as adults. Because a good education is one of the most important factors influencing future employment prospects and lifetime earning ability, poor dental health as a child can impact his or her entire life.

Untreated childhood dental disease also has serious long-term health consequences and has been connected to heart disease, stroke, pulmonary disease, and pre-term, low birth-weight babies. In 2012, someone visited the ER every 15 seconds for an emergency dental condition.

It’s Happening on February 26th!

February is National Children’s Dental Health Month which makes it the perfect time to tackle this problem.

Thanks to Delta Dental of Colorado, Nanci Garnand of Re/Max, and the Loveland Design Center, we have 55,000 toothbrushes that we’ll line up end to end for a record breaking 5.5 mile long line of toothbrushes. Don’t worry, the toothbrushes are individually wrapped, so they will stay clean, sanitary, and suitable for donation.

After we break the record, the toothbrushes will be disbursed to food banks and children’s organization throughout the state of Colorado.

How Can You Help? Spread the word!

We’re spending the entire month of February spreading the word about the importance of dental hygiene for children and how people can help children in need get access to better dental care.

We need volunteers! Can you help with a 2 hour shift? Email Sharon: sharon@sharonlipinski.com

Also, if you want to help financially. We have the toothbrushes, but it would be amazing to provide toothpaste to go with it. Our goal is to raise $5,000 for toothpaste. If we raise more money than we need for that purpose, then we'll direct those funds to America's Tooth Fairy to provide dental care to children in need. 100% of donations you make go directly to either of these purposes.

Our event website is http://milesofsmilescolorado.com

Contact:

The two Loveland businesses working together to break the world record are:

Sharon Lipinski: Founder of Change Gangs: Virtual Giving Circles and
author of "365 Ways to Live Generously: Simple Habits for a Life That's
Good for You and for Others”. https://sharonlipinski.com/

Christine Forster: President of Change Gangs: Virtual Giving Circles and
My Big Day Events. https://www.mybigdaycompany.com/

Contact: Sharon (970) 581-7681 sharon@sharonlipinski.com

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