Annual Spring Volunteer Project!
Please note: For this year the volunteer project has already been held. BANSG recruits local nannies to volunteer for this project every year, providing childcare during a Saturday conference at Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, held near the end of April or in early May. Please consider joining us next year…it’s a lot of fun!
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Nanny Support Group- Community Unity Service- Spring 2010
VOLUNTEER, OR ASK FOR FURTHER INFORMATION FOR OUR MAY 1 PROJECT BY EMAILING JANSTCLAIR AT AOL DOT COM! PLEASE CONTACT ME ASAP, AS ORGANIZERS ARE ASSIGNING REGISTERED CHILDREN BY VOLUNTEER PREFERENCE/EXPERIENCE LEVEL. CORI checks are not being run after all, as volunteers will always be within view of CORI’d staff and head counsellors.
This spring, nanny groups nationwide will each run a volunteer project for member nannies. By participating we do good for the community we live in, combat bad press normally given to nannies, and demonstrate that the nanny profession means individuals who are responsible and community-minded.
As of March 9, 2010, there are several groups that have arranged projects:
Groups and events planned so far:
BANSG Boston Area Nanny Support Group
Boston and surrounding suburbs
Perkins School for the Blind
Watertown, MA
May 1st, 8am-3:15pm
BANSG will provide childcare during the yearly regional conference held at the Perkins School for the Blind for parents of visually impaired preschoolers. We are counselors for the day in a well-organized “camp” for the impaired children and their sighted siblings.
Our participation allows parents of an impaired child to learn hope and strategies for raising and educating a blind or visually impaired (often multi-impaired) child, and to meet and talk with other parents who are meeting the same challenges. It is not unusual that we are the first people these parents have ever been able to trust to care for their handicapped child, and that this conference marks their first hours away from focusing on the direct care of their child!
Volunteers, if they wish, may request their preferred age group, and request to be assigned either a handicapped child or 1-2 unimpaired children. The children are divided into age groups running between infant-preteen, and each group has their own experienced head counsellor and base site with craft and baking materials. There are large playgrounds, spacious grounds, a well-stocked gym, music and movement activities, and facepainting. Counsellors and kids have a grand time! I’ve been doing this for almost 25 years as the ongoing head counsellor for the 3-4yo’s if you want to request my group!
Again, please contact me at janstclair at aol dot com asap for further information, or to sign up.
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CincyNanny Community
Greater Cincinnati Area
www.cincynanny.com
May 15th, 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Participate in “Go Cincinnati” largest serve project in our cities’
history. We will be assigned to a project that influences children in
some way.
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Denver Area Nanny Association
Denver Area
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DenverAreaNannyAssociation/
Children’s book drive.
Month of April
Denver, Co Area
The group will deliver new and gently used children’s books to lower income area Pediatric clinics, and a women’s shelter (The Gathering Place), as well as, Brett’s Place which is a Ronald McDonald type home for families and their children who have cancer.
We are going to encourage our group to try and involve their charges in selecting some of their books to donate.
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Nanny Alliance of NY & NJ
Tri-state NY/NJ/CT Area
www.nannyalliancenyandnj.com
March of Dimes Walk for Babies
Mahwah, NJ
April 25th
By participating in this 5+ mile walk, and helping to raise donations, but most importantly awareness for this cause, we hope to show the community that nannies truely care about babies!
The March of Dimes walk gives hope to the more than half a million babies born too soon each year. The money raised supports programs to fund reserach and find answers to the issues that threaten babies and help mothers have healthy, full-term pregnancies.
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Northshore Professional Nanny Alliance
www.nannyalliance. blogspot. com
Next Door Foundation
April 13th
Northshore Professional Nanny Alliance will host a book drive for Next Door Foundation - an organization that provides books to inner-city children in our area.
We will also be volunteering in their Read to Me program where the nannies from our group will read to 3, 4 and 5 year olds.
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Central Florida Nannies
Orlando and surrounding areas
www.centralfloridanannies.wordpress.com
March of Dimes
April 24th
Orlando, FL
Association of DC Area Nannies ~ ADCAN
Maryland, Northern Virginia, Washington DC
www.dcareanannies.com
ADCAN wil be do a series of collections for the National Center for Children & Families. We’ve done a lot of work with them this past year and they are so wonderful and appreciative. They do so much - foster care, transitional housing, homeless shelter, battered womens, summer camp programs, the list goes on.
www.nccf-cares.org
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Northwest Nanny Association
Greater Seattle area
www.northwestnanny.com
The Northwest Nanny Association will be collecting new and gently used books, as
well as other infant/child related items. We will be donating all
items to Childhaven. Childhaven’s four Western Washington branch
centers provide therapeutic child care and early childhood education
to babies, toddlers and preschoolers who have suffered from or are at
risk of abuse and neglect. We are encouraging all members to get kids
and families involved. Several of us will be delivering the items at
the end of the week.