Salon4 would like to thank those guests and staff who recently donated to our Helping Hands event for Child Abuse Awareness Month. Helping Hands were posted at the Salon4 front desk for the month of April 2009, representing your generous donations. Thanks to your contributions Helping Hands was a great success.
Please consider buying our A Year in Flowers 2010 calendar. Available soon, all proceeds will be donated to Childhelp. Reserve yours at your next Salon4 visit!
Your donation to ChildHelp is a click away! Please use the link from the Salon4 website directly to the ChildHelp website to donate to this worthwhile cause. Each of us know someone who has been affected by child abuse. ChildHelp is there to provide prevention and support for victims of child abuse. Please help.
Founded in 1959 by Sara O’Meara and Yvonne Fedderson, Childhelp® is a leading national non-profit organization dedicated to helping victims of child abuse and neglect. Childhelp’s approach focuses on prevention, intervention and treatment. The Childhelp® National Child Abuse Hotline, 1-800-4-A-CHILD, operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and receives calls from throughout the United States, Canada, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Guam. Childhelp’s programs and services also include residential treatment services (villages); children’s advocacy centers; therapeutic foster care; group homes; child abuse prevention, education and training; and the National Day of Hope®, part of National Child Abuse Prevention Month every April. Several of Childhelp’s programs were firsts, and continue to be studied by professionals worldwide as "models that work." Sara O'Meara and Yvonne Fedderson continue to actively lead the organization and provide its vision, serving as Chairman/CEO and President, respectively.
Salon4 supports Special Olympics and we respectfully request that you do, too. Please use the link from the Salon4 website directly to Special Olympics.org and make a donation - you'll be glad you did. There are many ways for you to support or contribute to Special Olympics - check them out for yourself and see.
Dignity, acceptance, and a chance to reach one’s potential – these are human rights worth promoting for everyone. Since 1968, Special Olympics has been bringing one message to the world: people with intellectual disabilities can and will succeed if given the opportunity.
We are also a catalyst for societal change, fostering community building around the globe. We are a leader in diversity and tolerance education, bringing young people with and without intellectual disabilities together in our youth and schools outreach. We are a research leader, partnering with governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the private sector to develop new ways to include people with intellectual disabilities in all aspects of society. We are the world’s largest public health organization serving people with intellectual disabilities, offering free health screenings to the world’s most neglected populations. And we are the fastest-growing grass-roots volunteer movement on the planet, with the potential to improve the quality of life for 200 million people with intellectual disabilities – 3 percent of the global population.
