Calm Waters News and Updates
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Calm Waters in Yukon | Winter Grief Workshop
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Calm Waters
will host a FREE Winter Grief Workshop, sponsored by
Yanda & Son Funeral Home
, on
Saturday, November 9 from 2 to 4 p.m
., at the Yukon First United Methodist Church, 400 Elm Avenue, Yukon, OK 73099. While participation is free,
registration is required
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The workshop is a free event to help children, adults, and families prepare for the holiday season and cope with the death of a loved one or a recent family separation due to divorce, deployment, deportation, incarceration or foster/adoptive care.
"For many children, this is their first Thanksgiving with Mom and Dad in separate houses and for other families, this is the first Christmas since Grandma died and it’s difficult to organize expected family events,” said Heather Warfield, LMFT, Calm Waters’ Program Director. “Our Grief Workshop allows hurting families to learn new ways to manage loss during a time of year that holds high expectations for joy and togetherness.”
Calm Waters’ on-staff therapists will lead a holiday-focused curriculum to help the entire family navigate loss and change through concurrent adult and children’s activities and micro-support groups with each experience providing tools to cope with loss during a time of year that is usually filled with joy. The end-goal for attendees is to learn how to grieve together while honoring holiday traditions and memories.
Registration Deadline: Thursday, Nov. 7
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Five Local Foundations and Businesses Donate
$28,350 to Calm Waters
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On October 3, Calm Waters
announced
that five Oklahoma-based foundations and businesses donated a total of $28,350.
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Since this news was shared, our organization has experienced two outcomes:
1 - SIXTEEN new
volunteers
responded to our need and are in the middle of Calm Waters Grief theory training.
In summary, we are so grateful for the community response in both volunteerism and the need for services! Calm Waters is still accepting volunteer group facilitators.
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The Parenting Through Divorce Seminar
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Did you know Calm Waters provides a 4-hour, Oklahoma court mandated parenting class, "
Parenting Through Divorce
" seminar for divorcing/separating parents?
Cost:
$50.00
Reschedule and reprint fees: $10.00
Available Dates:
- November 2, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
- November 13, 5:30 - 9:30 p.m.
- November 20, 5:30 - 9:30 p.m.
- November 23, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
- December 4, 5:30 - 9:30 p.m.
- December 14, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
- December 18, 5:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Seminar Details:
- Divorcing/divorced parents are not permitted to attend the same seminar date
- Participants must register and pay online before each seminar
- ‘Walk-ins’ are not allowed
- Child Care isn't provided and children cannot attend the seminar
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Grief and Divorce Support Groups News
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Anticipatory Grief and Infant Loss
Added to Monday Night Support Groups
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- Monday nights from 6 to 7:30 p.m., Calm Waters hosts grief support groups for children 3 to 18, parents, grandparents and adults.
- Thursday nights from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Calm Waters hosts divorce support groups for the entire family.
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Anticipatory Grief
, (such as a terminal cancer diagnosis) will also be added to our grief group curriculum and when enough families join, this group will meet in its own room as well.
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Local Business Fundraiser for Calm Waters | 6 Days Left!
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For the month of October, our friends at
Paramount Pest Solutions
will donate
10%
of Pest Control Services sales to support Calm Waters’ FREE grief and divorce support services.
Be sure to mention
Calm Waters
during booking!
Thank you Paramount Pest Solutions!
Paramount Pest Solutions
Servicing the Oklahoma City Metro and Surrounding areas.
405-675-7757
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Balliet's Dec. 3 Fashion Show Fundraiser
for Calm Waters
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$50 Ticket | $50 Gift Card
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Save the date! Balliets, 6443 Avondale Drive in Nichols Hills Plaza, is hosting a fundraiser to benefit Calm Waters on
Tuesday, December 3
. Tickets are $50 and each ticket holder receives a
$50 Gift Card
! This exclusive event includes a fashion show, champagne and eats, and 20% of the night's sales will be donated Calm Waters. Tickets go on sale soon!
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Calm Waters Intern and Volunteer Spotlight
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Honor McFarland-Smith
Honor is pursuing her Masters of Science in Family and Child Studies - Infant and Child Specialist at UCO and will graduate this May!
In addition to pursuing Masters studies, teaching in the Sunbeam early child development center, and being a mom to the cutest 2-yr-old, she ALSO facilitates Calm Waters grief and divorce support groups two evenings a week at our Center.
Honor has worked with young children since she was a teen, and has dedicated the last decade of her career to children and families. She says that the Calm Waters internship provides a unique perspective on how children and their parents experience and cope with grief and family separation, and plans to use her experience and Calm Waters’ resources to help more children and their families in the future.
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Mary Siems
When Mary was six, her dad died in a car accident, and she didn't have the tools or support to help her process her grief. Her family was broken, and this loss became such a big part of her identity.
The Calm Waters' mission to help children and families in their grief journey resonated with Mary because it's what she desperately wished she’d had as a child.
In addition to Mary’s Calm Waters role as a volunteer group facilitator every other Monday night, this Southern Nazarene University graduate is a freelance systems consultant.
“I have always been drawn to working with kids, and because I have experienced a parent death in my life, Calm Waters felt like the right fit."
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Planning Your Legacy| Calm Waters
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Calm Waters Center for Children and Families | 405-841-4800 | Calmwaters.org
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