Around the Community
December 9, 2011 in Around the Site, Featured by Jen
It’s another week and more wonderful things are happening on this site and beyond. This is such a crazy time of the year for everyone, hopefully each and every person with a connection to this site is finding a few moments here and there to rest and regroup.
I have a few exciting things to tell you before we talk about what’s going on in the Support for Special Needs community. First, I mentioned last week how my daughter, Jordan, and I are raising money for Camp No Limits in honor of Jordan’s birthday on December 29th. Well, over last weekend, a person I do not know personally donated $700 to our online effort. That was the total amount we had hoped to raise. Now we have raised $1700+ and are very close to raising enough to send five kids to camp next summer. That’s SO COOL. I’m currently in the Chicago area building Jordan’s sixth prosthetic. (She started getting them when she was four months old.) I’m live updating the experience on Facebook and I’ll post a couple of blogs along the way. I’m also holding a meetup this Sunday at the Chicago Children’s Museum on Navy Pier if there are any families on this site who would like to meet up!
Meet ups and other organically grown relationships are a big part of Robert Rummel-Hudson’s post on the Support for Special Needs site this week. If you haven’t read anything on the site lately, this is a post I really think is worth the read. Robert is incredibly passionate about support for this beautiful daughter AND he’s passionate about helping special needs communities come together. He touches on a number of challenging topics parents face when they have a non-typical child. It’s good and bad and I love how he verbalizes it.
Have you noticed how you can keep up with all kinds of updates on the Support for Special needs site by just watching the stream from the home page? You’d be amazed the amount of content that is discussed. Throw in a comment here or there. Share a post about an experience. You’ll be happy knowing your thoughts may help validate someone else’s feelings and concerns.
New Members
We did not have any brand new members in the past week. Make sure you spread the word about this site! There’s a new look and fabulous people contributing here. Since we don’t have any brand new folks this week, I’ll share someone who didn’t get mentioned last week!
That includes Debbie Nimmo. She is the parent of a special needs son who is 21 years old and is diagnosed with Trisomy 9Q34. Make sure you stop what’ you’re doing and check out her page.
Group updates
Have you ever felt like your life was nothing but PT, OT and appointments after appointments? I’ve been there and there’s a group up you should consider being a part of it. It’s called Organizing… Specialized! Support for Special Needs member Leslie Gall is helping moderate and brainstorm. She’s updating weekly with new topics. Join her! I’m totally joining to see what I can learn.
Dig in, have fun and spread the word about this site!
