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Mission:

The Caring Council mission is to Link services and resources to enhance the opportunities for children and families to achieve their highest potential. The Caring Council is dedicated to strengthening families, schools, and communities, and to promoting coordination and cooperation between social service providers, churches, the business community, and the educational system, in order to empower families and individuals to become more self-reliant, responsible, and resourceful.

NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MONTH

December recognizes National Human Rights Month. This month and every month to follow, everyone in the United States is encouraged to come together and stand up for equality, justice, and the dignity of all humans. December is a time to honor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an international document stating the fundamental rights and freedoms to which all human beings are entitled. These rights include freedom from discrimination, the right to equality, and the right to be considered innocent until proven guilty.

“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home — so close and so small they they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt

HOW TO OBSERVE #HumanRightsMonth

Use #NationalHumanRights and #HumanRights to post on social media. Spread the word about the importance of treating everyone around us with respect, dignity, and kindness no matter their gender, age, race, political views, or social status. National Human Rights Month is about acknowledging that people are people, plain and simple. If we take the time to learn about other cultures, we will begin to see things from their perspective and be able to better understand them as real people. This month, we are all challenged to learn more about a specific culture (or several) that may make us uneasy or hesitant. Give yourself a little history lesson and chances are, you’ll change your preconceived notion about that particular group of people.

Recap from November Regional Resource Meeting

Speaker for the November Regional Resource Meeting was Paris Robbins, Registered Dietician accompanied by Dixie Duncan, MPA, Project Director, MS County Health Department.  Paris shared that she holds CDSM and DSMP classes for free, through county health departments.  These classes meet weekly for 6 weeks for 1 ½ hour sessions.  The Walk with Ease program is a popular program and can be held in any community that has a walking track.  In Kennett, the site is the Kennett OAKS Nutrition Center.  Nutrition Counseling is offered to clients 1 on 1.  Attendees were also informed of a month-long free self-monitoring blood pressure program that is available.  She then walked the audience through Mpower's website.

"Bringing our region together one resource at a time"

The next Regional Resource Meeting, hosted by Caring Council, will be held on Tuesday,

January 10, 2023

Kennett Presbyterian Activity Center

11:30pm-1pm

Resource Speaker:

Jenifer Godsey, Childhood Initiative Coordinator, Caring Council

Lunch will be served.

Please let Kelendria Johnson know if you plan to attend.

kjohnson@caringcouncil.org or 573-717-1158

We are currently collecting resource information for families in our region (Dunklin, Stoddard, Pemiscot, and New Madrid).  If you are a resource provider, please click here to share information for our Resource Guide!

In coordination with SkillUP, eligible participants will be able to get certifications in the Healthcare and IT fields with MedCerts, an online carrer training school pioneering the way students learn and employers hire.

For more information, contact Leticia Jarred,

573-717-1158 or ljarred@caringcouncil.org

Stay up to date with the Office of Childhood and learn more about what's going on with the Preschool Development Grant B-5.

Click here to check out the previous webinars.

Hallelujah on the Steps

Join the Community in singing Carols and the Hallelujah Chorus on the Steps of the Kennett Presbyterian Church at 5:30pm on December 23rd!

Orchestrated by Viretta Sexton

Upcoming Community Events 

Here is the link for SEMO Food Bank's website where you will find the Mobile Pantry Calendar, and much more information! Please visit this site if would like to sponsor a food and fund drive at your office, civic organization, school or church. Collect their most needed items. Their Food Drive Kit will help you set it up and get started. For more information or to schedule your food drive, please call them at 573-471-1818 or email sminfo@semofoodbank.org. Raising funds for the food bank allows them to acquire products that are currently needed most. They can provide donation envelopes or employees may give online at semofoodbank.org/donate.

More Program Opportunities:

12/10

Community Christmas Party

First United Methodist Church, Kennett

8:00am, 9:30am, and 11:00am

12/12

An Evening with CASA

Chair-itable Event

5:30pm, 6:30pm

Opera House, Kennett

12/13

"It's A Wonderful Life"

Palace Theater, Kennett

 12/23

Hallelujah On The Steps

Kennett Presbyterian Church

5:30pm

12/25

Christmas Day

12/26-1/2/23

Caring Council Offices Closed

Reopen on 1/3/23

If you have any events, programs or information that you would like to be shared in our newsletter, please contact Kelendria Johnson.

kjohnson@caringcouncil.org