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Check out what's new this issue!
- Mindful Healing Session: Crystals, Sound, and Reiki Energy
- Relational Regulation Workshops: Maintaining Boundaries While Fostering Connection
- Painting Class Pumpkin Spice Latte
- DDBP Outreach Online Understanding Behavior
- Help Young Adults Furnish Their First Apartments
- Become an Ohio Developmental Disabilities Council Ambassador
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Exercise and Stretch Class
Meets weekly from 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. on Mondays, ends on Monday, December 1
Get your exercise and stretches in at Easterseals Redwood, located at 2901 Gilbert Ave, Cincinnati, 45206! This class is designed for individuals with disabilities and will incorporate adaptive exercises. Register now to get your own resistance stretch band by emailing Jenise at Jenise@IndependenceAlliance.org.
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Sensory Friendly Movie: The Santa Clause 2
Thursday, December 4 at 10:15 a.m.
Join us for our Sensory Friendly Movie Event featuring The Santa Clause 2 at the Fitton Art Center! We’ll turn up the lights and lower the volume so participants can enjoy the movie-theater experience without feeling overstimulated. Doors open at 9:45 a.m. No food or drinks are permitted in the theater. Please RSVP to Jenny Mann at jamann@butlerdd.org by Monday, December 1.
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Mindful Healing Session: Crystals, Sound, and Reiki Energy
Thursday, December 4, from 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
This immersive experience begins with a crystal gift for grounding and reflection, followed by guided mindfulness, intention setting, and affirmations to cultivate inner peace. Gentle stretching, breathing, and a Reiki-infused sound bath encourage deep relaxation and balance, concluding with a mindfulness activity to carry intentions forward. This session will take place at the Butler County ESC located at 400 N. Erie Blvd., Suite A in Hamilton, Ohio. Please bring a towel, blanket, or yoga mat. Extra supplies will be available. Register!
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Relational Regulation Workshops: Maintaining Boundaries While Fostering Connection
Friday, December 5, from 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
This interactive training will help people navigate the essential balance between creating safety through connection and maintaining healthy professional boundaries. Grounded in neuroscience, people will learn how their own internal states influence interactions and how to use co-regulation as a tool without crossing boundaries. Through interactive exercises, case discussions, and expressive art practices, attendees will gain strategies for maintaining relational engagement while preserving their capacity to serve. This training will take place at the Butler County ESC located at 400 N. Erie Blvd., Suite A in Hamilton, Ohio. Register today!
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Painting Class Pumpkin Spice Latte
Wednesday, November 26 at 6 p.m.
Join We Thrive Together for an online painting class as they teach you to paint a Pumpkin Spice Latte. The supplies you will need for this are canvas/paper, paint, paint brushes, a paper plate, paper towels, and a cup of water. Join the online event on Zoom!
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DDBP Outreach Online Understanding Behavior
Wednesday, December 10, from 5:15 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.
Learn the "function" or reason challenging behaviors occur in this virtual online class. Understand how to manage behaviors and encourage cooperation and positive family interactions. The online class is $10 per household, but the registration fee can be waived for any family experiencing financial hardship. Registration is required!
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Urban Air Sensory Friendly Play
First Sunday of the Month from 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Join the Urban Air Adventure Park Fairfield Township team for Sensory Friendly Play! This is designed for children with Autism and special needs. During Sensory Play, Urban Air Adventure Park is transformed into a calmer atmosphere for children with special needs and sensory processing difficulties. The cost is $15.99 per child. Urban Air Adventure Park Fairfield Township is located at 3175 Princeton Road.
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Become an Ohio Developmental Disabilities Council Ambassador
Are you interested in sharing your voice and making a difference in your community? The Community Ambassador Program spotlights Ohioans with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) who share important stories from their local communities. As a Community Ambassador, you'll bring local stories forward for people across Ohio to hear. Your perspective helps others understand what's happening in our state, including the challenges, successes, and positive changes, making Ohio more inclusive. If you are interested, fill out the interest form.
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The Gifted Event
Are you looking for an inclusive barbershop or hair salon that is sensitive to your child's sensory needs? Check out The Gifted Event! Vernon Jackson, creator of the non-profit The Gifted Event, a free haircut program for children with special needs and their families, has a mission to make barbershops and salons a safe and inclusive space for neurodivergent children and their families! Vernon offers haircuts in an inclusive environment at Noble Bar and Beauty, located at 2915 Highland Ave, Cincinnati, OH. To learn more about how your child can receive a haircut from Vernon or to sponsor a haircut, visit The Gifted Event's website!
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Donate to New Life Furniture Bank
Please help New Life Furniture Bank by donating sofas, dining room chairs, and living room chairs, as they are desperately low! Each week, the New Life Furniture team delivers around 50 sofas to families starting over. Today, only a few remain in the warehouse.
Here’s how you can make a difference:
-Schedule a FREE furniture pickup (gas donations appreciated)
-Book a Priority Pickup – New Life movers come inside your home!
-Drop off at the Blue Ash or Sharonville location
All gently used furniture is welcome and deeply appreciated. Schedule your pickup today!
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May We Help Adaptive Equipment Needed
If you have equipment you aren't using any longer, May We help will happily accept it as a donation and repurpose it back out into the world! Currently, May We Help is especially interested in Pediatric Gait Trainers! May We Help welcomes donations of all types of clean and functional pediatric and adult equipment. There is no requirement to donate to receive equipment! If you have the equipment you would like to donate, please bring it to 7501 Wooster Pike, Cincinnati, OH 45227, at one of the donation times located on May We Help's website!
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