The Butterfly Effect Fashion Show and Fundraiser

Saturday May 19, 2012 1-7 pm

The event will be held at
Lincoln Culinary Institute (old Hastings Hotel)
85 Sigourney St. Hartford, CT

Doors open at 1pm for shopping with local vendors and the show starts at 2:30 featuring the work of local designers and models. Light fare and a cash bar from 4-7. Designers and models will be available to meet and take pictures after the show.

Our guests of honor include Amy Fine Collins, special correspondent from
Vanity Fair Magazine, who wrote an article in 2011 that brought national attention to one of the largest sex trafficking rings (which included minors and adults) in Hartford, CT and Officer Deb Scates, the lead officer who worked to uncovered the ring from 2005- 2009. The MC of the afternoon will be Debbie Allen Wright of Project Closet, who is also a contributing stylist on Better CT/Channel 3. City and State officials are expected to attend as well.

http://www.grapevinefoundation.org/news.html

There are currently approximately 2,200 children under the age of 12 in DCF care in CT (DCF care being foster care, pre-adoptive, residential, group homes, etc)

There are currently approximately 2, 400 children age 12 and over in DCF care

There are less than 2,300 licensed foster homes in CT

There were about 525 adoptions finalized through foster care last year (in CT)

Kids in DCF care:

52% are Caucasian

29% are African American

19% are Hispanic

Our CRI reusable bags will be perfect there for all the wonderful things you’ll find at this huge tag sale at the Portland Historical Society.

Imagine if you are 6 years old with 2 younger siblings. You are taken from your home because someone realized that your mom left you and your sister and brother home alone for hours (and sometimes days) at a time. Noone would check on you. However, when you went to a foster home, you were so much more traumatized because of your past that you couldn’t cope as well as your siblings. You were removed and placed in a different home, without your siblings and felt alone. At age 6 you had your first hospitalization. You had another a couple years later in spite of progress. Thankfully, you finally ended up in home that care for you and were adopted by age 13. Your wounds are for a lifetime, but you wouldn’t have had a chance to heal at all if it weren’t for the foster parent you found….correction…the foster parent that found you.

This story describes a child currently in the Connecticut Foster Care System.

MAY Evening classes 5pm-8pm
PRIDE Training For
Foster & Adoptive Parents
ALL SESSIONS ARE FROM 5PM TO 8PM
at 205 Kelsey St. Newington 2nd floor
May 7 (Monday): Session 1
May 8 (Tuesday): Sessions 2 & 7
May 9 (Wednesday): Session 3
May 10 (Thursday): Session 4
May 14 (Monday): Session 5
May 15 (Tuesday): Nursing
May 16 (Wednesday): Session 8
May 17 (Thursday): Session 9
May. 21 & 22 (Mon. & Tues.): Behavior/Discipline
YOU MUST DO BOTH SESSIONS IN May for Behavior/Discipline. These sessions cannot be split between different months.

Please RSVP to Louisa at (860) 665-9478 x420.
We are not able to provide child care,
and some material is not appropriate for children.

JUNE Daytime events 8:30-4:30
PRIDE Training For
Foster & Adoptive Parents
Sessions 1, 2 & 7 Wednesday, 6/13
Sessions Nursing, 3 & 4 Thursday, 6/14
Sessions 5, 8, & 9 Friday, 6/15
Behavior & Discipline (6) Saturday, 6/16
Please RSVP to Louisa at (860) 665-9478 x420.
We are not able to provide child care,
and some material is not appropriate for children.

BOTH at Newington Office