News Archives for January 2012

Craft Class Gives Back Again

January 31, 2012

This Christmas was the third year in a row that the Bridges’s Craft Class has donated holiday gifts to Safe Haven Family Shelter, the only shelter-to-housing program of its kind in middle Tennessee that accepts entire homeless families. 

Craft Class gift giving began three years ago when the group wanted to learn how to quilt.  They chose a small project – sewing quilted Christmas stockings – and enjoyed it so much, they decided to donate the stockings to a worthy cause.  That worthy cause became Safe Haven Family Shelter.  When the class realized the needs of families residing at Safe Haven, they started collecting gifts to fill the hand-made stockings.

Unfortunately, the number of families at Safe Haven has continued to increase in recent years.  To help meet the new demand, the Craft Class asked the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) Nashville Chapter to help provide items to the Safe Haven families. This year, Bridges’s Craft Class made as many hand-made scarves and hats as they could, and with help from HLAA, purchased additional scarves, hats, gloves, toiletries, baby quilts and toys for youth of all ages. Bridges would like to thank HLAA for its help in making this year’s Craft Class donations possible!

For more information on Safe Haven shelter, visit www. safehaven.org.

Are you Deaf or hard of hearing and interested in joining Bridges’s Craft Class? Contact Donicé Kaufman at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for more information.

Summer Camps at Bridges!

January 6, 2012

Bridges will host the following summer camps in 2012 for youth: 

Camp Rise and Sign is an overnight camp for Deaf and hard of hearing youth at Camp Marymount in Fairview, TN. 
- May 11th – May 13th, 2012 for 1st–12th graders

Camp Sign Me Up is a day camp for hearing youth who want to learn sign language!  Camp costs $35 per camper.
- June 4th – June 8th, 2012 for K – 5th graders
- June 11th – June 15th, 2012 for 6th–12th graders

Camp Jump Start is a day camp for Deaf and hard of hearing youth who want to improve their reading skills.
- July 9th – July 13th and July 16th – July 20th, 2012 for K–12th graders

Unless otherwise noted, camps are held at the Mary McKinney Youth Center at Bridges, 415 4th Avenue South in downtown Nashville. 

Space is limited, reserve your spot today! For more information or to register for any or all of the camps, contact Julie Perdue, Youth Program Manager, at 615-248-8828 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).