11/28/2017 agenda Casady Blood Drive 2017, ICS Hope for the Holidays Drive

Agenda
1:10 Harper

22 members attended.  New sign-in sheet.

Seniors: Mariam and Safra
Juniors: Sahanya, Anna, Hannah H., Claire R., Katherine S.
Sophomores:  Ahmed, Saadia, Reese
Freshmen:  Katherine H., Graeme J., Abbey K., Isabela P., Ava R., Cate R., Grace U., Lauren W., Cam W.
Adults
Mrs Clay, Mr. David Crawford:  Information about Blood Drive 2017 and Mrs. Watson: Blood Drive Speaker on 12/5.

Minutes by Anna B.
 ***Dates from ICS primary and Lower Division drive changed to 12/1
Sign up at Harper if you wish to volunteer. Contact Katherine S. for details
Upper Division ICS Drive will be December 11-15
Help decorate the Xmas Tree at the Gaylord Student Center today or tomorrow before lunch.  Unused Xmas ornaments will be donated to Stanley Hupfeld Academy's Santa Store.

-Mrs. Clay's  Xmas Present:  
Write your "I AM From" Poem following the format below this weekend and send it to Mrs. Clay via email (clayc@casady.org) Poems will be shared with Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Clay Substitute teacher.
  The link contains examples of poems written by Youth LEAD OKC youth and adults including Mrs. Clay's https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OQPicY6fCVdUGFREHJH5hOVtwf23QBRvZk-1Nz2VPIc/edit?usp=sharing.

Where I am From

*Youth LEAD and Casady Service-Learning YAC  does not own or claim any right to this template.

I am from____________________________________________________,

(ordinary item that characterizes you)

from___________________________________________________

(your favorite product name)

and_______________________________________________________.

(some item that you hold precious)

I am from______________________________________________________________
(description of where you want to live)

______________________________________________________________________.

(three adjectives that define it)

I am from the __________________________________________________________

(natural item, such as a flower)

_______________________________________________________________________.

(the importance of that item)

I am from ______________________________________________________________

(family tradition)

and ___________________________________________________________________.,

(family trait)

from ______________________________________ and ____________________________

(names of two family members)

and ______________________________________________________________________..

(another family name)

I am from the _______________________________________________________________

(description of family tendency)

and_______________________________________________________________________.

(another tendency)

From______________________________________________________________________

(something you were constantly told as a child)

and _______________________________________________________________________.

(another thing you were told)

I am from _________________________________________________________________.

(representation of religion or culture or lack of it)

_________________________________________________________________________

(Description of what that religion, culture or non-culture means to you)

I'm from______________________________________________________________________,

(place of birth and family ancestry)

_____________________________________________________________________________.

(two food items representing your family)

From the________________________________________________________________________,

(specific family story about a specific person and detail)

the ______________________________________________________________________________,

(another detail)

and _______________________________________________________________________________.

(a detail about a family member)

I am from ________________________________________________________________________.

(a dream you have)

- Mrs. Clay substitute visiting 11/28 at 3:30 pm.  Her name is Sarah Smith. She will be the S-L Director during Mrs Clay "Family Leave" from December 6th to the end of March 2018.
 Miss Smith's RESUME

- Bring gently used donations to Harper or to Sharun P.  for Positive Directions Santa's Store @ Stanley Hupfeld Academy.  Mrs. Clay will take donations from Mrs. Susan Peck to Stanley Hupfeld tomorrow.

- Fridays, 4:15-5:15 or 6:00 at Boys and Girls Club;  Contact YAC VP, Sahanya B. if interested.  There is a sign-up sheet at Harper

- Blood drive: Sign-up and permissions at main office.  Mr. Crawford gave details of the drive.  Mrs. Hannah Lu Watson- Bennett's grandmother- provided some food for thought.  Mrs. Watson will have the drive facilitators (Claire R., Chris G., and Ellie G) to write the letter for marketing to send to the Casady Family.
Fliers were updated by Sharun P., after school.  TV Screens already have reminders. 

Blood Drive 2017 PP HERE

Wednesday, December 13, 7:30 am -12:30 pm @ Woolsey Wing

Claire Richardson'19, Christopher Goodall'18, and Ellison Guzzy'19 Blood Drive 2017 Chairs

Sign up and permissions at the main office 

16 year olds MUST bring a signed permission slip and a photo ID to donate

HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2017

GRATEFUL FOR THE EXPERIENCES SHARED
HELPING COMMUNITY NEEDS

November 7th meeting agenda and minutes

Agenda
Facilitator: Claire Richardson.  No pictures or notes taken.
Minutes by Mrs. Clay
Attendance by sign-up sheet.  No photographers
Seniors:  None
Juniors: Claire R.
Sophomores: Saadia R., Reese R.
Freshmen:  Isabela P., Lauren W., Tina N., Ava R.


1. Activity: Wellness Activity by Ali  Ali suggested to do a labyrinth wall when feeling stressed.  She was not able to attend the meeting because of the art club field trip.  Participants at the meeting decided not to walk the labyrinth yesterday because it was too cold.

YAC 2016-2017

2. Reflection of Students Against Hunger Food and Fund Drive  - Individual reflections at PADLET or text Mrs. Clay
Great collaborative effort.  Good results.  Saadia asked about the cost of the gift cards.  The gift cards were donations from the restaurants.  Special thanks to Ava who solicited the "Food-4-Food" cards and had her mother drive her to picked them up.
The final money donation was increase Monday by a $50 donations and after the YAC meeting Mrs. Clay will transfer $100 from the Casady Service-Learning to the final total of the food drive.

Natalie Wood, the Food Drive Speaker sent the following email,

Hello,

I hope you are doing well! I wanted to let you know that your students donated 2,767 pounds of food during the food drive! We are so thankful for your generous support over the years. With this food, we will be able to stock several pantries’ shelves with food before the holidays.

Yesterday I had the privilege of giving a tour to a group of Casady 4^th graders. They were extremely well-behaved and asked wonderful questions. You have such a great group of students enrolled in Casady Schools.

Thank you for all you do to fight hunger in the state!

Natalie Price Wood

Manager of Donor Relations

Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma

3355 S. Purdue

OKC, OK 73179

nwood@regionalfoodbank.org

405-600-3174

 - Delivery of check to Food Bank: The business office will mail one check for the total amount of cash donated during the drive as well as all individual checks made to the regional Food Bank of Oklahoma this coming Thursday, 11/08/2017
-Alumni Volunteering at the Food Bank, Wednesday, 11/8/2017: Mrs. Clay will volunteer at Food Bank with Casady Alumni on Wednesday.  Any students wishing to get some hours are welcomed to attend.
-Suggestions for next year:  
-Make a can costume.  Ruby B. purchased the materials but did not have time to make it this year.
-Repair the existing costumes
-Consider "Advisory Hunger Games" for next year

3. Upcoming projects

a. Wednesday, November 15th: Sharun's Project:  HALO Therapy Dogs, November 15th  (Mrs. Clay away.  Mrs. Johnson Supervisor)  The dogs will come to Harper.  Hope YAC will participate. Sharun was unable to attend the meeting because she was having lunch with author, Marolyn Stout.

b. Urban Mission Santa's House:

Christmas Shop:

December 11-14

Morning Shift  7:45 am -12:00 pm, Afternoon Shift   12:00 pm -2:30 pm ( they have the option to work the entire day).

Santa’s Recycle Shop:

December 18-19

Same shifts as Christmas Shop

Urban Mission Christmas Dinner:

December 20

Meal served at 12:00 pm. Volunteers will need to arrive no later than 9:00 am.

The contact person is

Cynthia Lytle

Community Development, Director

Urban Mission Ministries

301 North 5^th Street

Steubenville, OH 43952

740-282-8010 Ext 210

740-282-8514 Fax

clytle@urbanmission.org

• Mrs. Clay will be away, therefore, groups should bring a supervising adult.  If you want service credit, text or PADLET reflection and picture of your volunteer experience.

c. Wednesday, December 13th: Blood Drive 2017
YAC Senior/Junior Project:  Blood Drive:  Facilitators needed.  Claire Richarson will lead it. Ali Ambrose, Ellison Guzzy considering the possibility.  They will let us know.  Mrs. Clay will send an email to all YAC and see if there are any more seniors or juniors interested in facilitating this drive.  Mrs. Clay will be away in Boston.  Mr. David Crawford, Blood Bank Coordinator will be the adult supervising and facilitating the drive.  His contact information is

David Crawford <david.crawford@obi.org>

Oklahoma Blood Institute

Office:   (405) 419-1356

Mobile: (405) 250-9727

1. Letter to Casady Community  will be written by secretaries Anna and Malavika
2. December 5th: Introduce the speaker- Mrs. HL Hanneman  One of the facilitators of the drive.  This is one of the suggested videos for the UD.  Looking for videos for the MD where students will be motivated to ask their teachers and parents to donate.

3. Place posters around campus  All YAC should help.  We should have posters by November 28th
4. Get donors to sign-up at main office and bring permission slips  We will ask Mrs. Milligan to help the week before, but facilitators should take the list early morning on the 13th. 
5. Provide Blood Drive volunteer with back to class passes for donors.  Mrs. Clay will make them and give them to Blood Bank Coordinator of the Drive, David Crawford. He will be at the YAC meeting on Tuesday, November 28th.

d. Katherine S.'s ICS Hope for the Holidays project: December 11-15, Chapel Speech, December 6  ON PARKING LOT... Katherine was not there.  Katherine will work with 4th graders.  It is a 4th grade drive that includes UD, LD and PD.  The MD has other holiday projects, one of them is fundraising to send a kid to school in Uganda.
1. Chapel speech, December 6th
2. Volunteer Sign ups: Volunteers for all divisions  7:15-7:55 (Inside, just to remind the kids to bring donations and place them under the Xmas tree
3. Process: Donors, incentives (talk to coach T.), Volunteers follow trough- pictures/reflection for credit
4. Letters to Casady community  Secretaries could help
5. Training of 4th graders  Suggestion to include volunteers to remind PD donors



News
 1 Grant exploration for Wheelchair Track for Johnson Elementary:  Saadia and Aaron will meet with Oklahoma City grant writer and Johnson Elementary principal to explore possibilities Thursday, 11/09/2017 during activities at Harper.

2. Mr. Moore's Global Pedagogy Instruction (GPI): Aurian K. is the ambassador of this project at Casady School.  This project provides musical instrument instruction to children of poverty in Haiti.
Their first trip to Haiti demonstrated that the commitment to kids in poverty to learn musical instruments is strong.  Their desire to learn is met with the obstacle of not having instruments or instructors.  GPI is an emerging organization that is developing collaborations with The Road to Hope, Richard Harris from the Denver, Harris Law Firm, founder.  Colorado Academy sent students to Haiti already.  GPI is also talking to Global Students Health and  Cura for the World as part of their initiative to obtain funding by providing data to the research of the health effect of music and music education on children of poverty. 
Phase I:  
5k fundraiser to buy instruments and provide internet connect and computers to Haiti school children to receive instruction from OKC/Cyclone volunteers via Skype
Fundraiser will take place at Mitch Park on May 5th
Walkers who will solicit sponsors needed.   No conflict with Walk-A-Thon because this year, this event will be in April.
A representative from this project will came to the YAC meeting the first Tuesday in December.
Phase II
Volunteers needed to teach musical instruments via Skype to children in Haiti. 

YAC approve this project to be added to our calendar.  Coach T. and Dr. Powell were notified of this new service-learning opportunity.

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