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COMMUNITY CLASSES
We will be offering a variety of classes and seminars throughout the year. Check the Annoucements section of our Home Page to see what's coming up! Also, if there is something that you'd like to see us offer, feel free to email April Uffens at AprilUffens@ThurstonPTA.com with your suggestions.
Hats off to Haiti!
The fundraiser we held to raise money for the Red Cross to assist the
victims of the devastating earthquake in Haiti was a huge success.
Our kids paid 50 cents a day for a week to wear hats to school and, as a result,
our Thurston Elementary raised 683.09 for the Red Cross.
Due to the efforts of one of our parents, Summer Highfill, who issued press releases,
we had KMTR at our school on 3/9 to broadcast the
acceptance of our donation to the Red Cross. Here is the link to KMTR's broadcast - Click on "Hats off to them!" on the left to view the broadcast: KMTR Broadcast.
The Springfield Times also ran an article about it. Here's the link to that article: Springfield Times Article.
And hats off to our kids and parents for their efforts and contributions!!
BRATTIAN HOUSE
This charity directly supports children right here in the Springfield School district by offering them clean, respectable, free clothing. Click here to see their flyer with contact information if you would like to learn more about this charity or make donations clean, gently worn clothing.
A Family for Every Child / Heart Gallery
We will be offering a variety of classes and seminars throughout the year. Check the Annoucements section of our Home Page to see what's coming up! Also, if there is something that you'd like to see us offer, feel free to email April Uffens at AprilUffens@ThurstonPTA.com with your suggestions.
Hats off to Haiti!
The fundraiser we held to raise money for the Red Cross to assist the
victims of the devastating earthquake in Haiti was a huge success.
Our kids paid 50 cents a day for a week to wear hats to school and, as a result,
our Thurston Elementary raised 683.09 for the Red Cross.
Due to the efforts of one of our parents, Summer Highfill, who issued press releases,
we had KMTR at our school on 3/9 to broadcast the
acceptance of our donation to the Red Cross. Here is the link to KMTR's broadcast - Click on "Hats off to them!" on the left to view the broadcast: KMTR Broadcast.
The Springfield Times also ran an article about it. Here's the link to that article: Springfield Times Article.
And hats off to our kids and parents for their efforts and contributions!!
BRATTIAN HOUSE
This charity directly supports children right here in the Springfield School district by offering them clean, respectable, free clothing. Click here to see their flyer with contact information if you would like to learn more about this charity or make donations clean, gently worn clothing.
A Family for Every Child / Heart Gallery
A Family for Every Child/Heart Gallery is only 3 year old. Our mission is simple, to get children out to foster care and into adoptive homes. After this short time we have helped over 200 children move through our Galleries and Website on to their own "Forever Families" and out of foster care. We have matched over 50 older foster children with mentors that commit to them and allow them not to age out of foster care alone at 18. We have worked over 40 cases with 60 kids in our Family Finding program. This programs goal is to reconnect foster children to lost connections and those that loved them. There is not one case we have not been able to find connection, placement, pictures and medical information.
Just in the last 6 months we have seen children on our web site move faster then anyone in the system has seen before, some as quickly as 4 or 5 days. We receive over 1500 inquiries on our children from families nationwide each month.
In the last 9 months we have grown from 1 to 14 employee's and currently work with over 400 Oregon foster children through all of our permanency programs.
For more information on the foster children or to offer support to this program, please visit afamilyforeverychild.org
The Thurston Elementary PTA takes pride in supporting and contributing to com
munity programs. This page is dedicated to the current projects we are supporting. Please check back here often to find out what we are doing for the community and see how you can contribute.
