“There will be

good in every

day”

Volume XXV Issue 3 Empowering People with Disabilities March 21, 2016

When you refer qualified friends, neighbors or relatives who are hired to work at CES, you win with extra cash in your payroll check. If you refer someone and they are hired, you will receive $100 after the person is employed 30 days and another $100 after they are em-ployed 60 days.

VERY IMPORTANT: A referral card must be attached to the application when it is submitted. Cards are available at the Front Desk.

Staff who have recently bene-fited from this program include: Sharanda Farson, Annalee Neary, Layne Ezzell, Heather Potts, Deana Anderson, Shylo Stinnette-Nelson and Denise Huns-berger.

Do you need

CASH?

CES wants your

Art Show

The CWC art show will be May 19th-June 12th. There will be a reception

May 26th from 6PM-9PM. Everyone is welcome to check out all the hard work that everyone has put into their won-derful art projects!

A Huge Thank You!

Thank you to Shane at Lander Gambles for graciously donating

a new bed for one of our individuals. Your support of CES

and our clients is very much appreciated!

Art Classes!

Recently, our clients that attend art classes spent a class making clay

coffee cups! Pat Dahlke is proud to say that he made a square shaped

cup with purple and blue glaze! Pat is excited to see how all the art pro-jects come out of the kiln. Pictured

is Rease working on his project!

He has an intellectual disability

Don’t let the wonderful weather we’ve been having fool you! Please still be taking your cold weather precautions!

Hudson Center Singers

Deana Anderson, Quality Control/Goal

Writer, has initiated a choir group, the

Hudson Center Singers (name of the group

was voted on by the people in the choir).

David Dempster “jumped on board” imme-

diately by sign-

ing up several

interested per-

sons served, in-

cluding himself.

Now the choir is

“fine-tuning”

their singing

skills, practic-

ing every

Thursday at

2:30 PM. The

singers are looking for a pianist to aid in

their endeavor. Ideas, anyone?

Recognition Board Winners

This months recognition board winner for Riverton is Pau-lette Mascarenez. Others nominated were Morgan

Robinson, James Aragon, Robin Bennett, Amanda Bauer, Mary Noe, Sherrie Keele, Brenda Phillips, and Denise

Large.

Judy Brannan, Adam Turner, and Sara Gudmundsen were

the latest winners in 3 drawings. Also nominated were:

Deana Anderson, Matt Andersen, Carla Arnold, Peggy

Black, Ann Chase, Chuck Clarke, Carol Gdula, Marshall

Gdula, Ron Grogan, Amanda Hanson, Leland Hallett, Pat-

rick Hnilicka, Ben Jezek, Ramona Keller, Bethann

LaPointe, Tara LaTray, Ella McDonell, Joe Pitt, Gabi Rossi,

Kelly Saunders, Becky Shepard, Rob Thompson, Debbie

Veach, Jolene Velarde, Rachel Ward, Nanci Walters, and

Dale Weber. Congratulations to all of our nominees!!!

Super Star Tree

Get your name on a Star by: using your

manners, good hygiene, good social skills,

making healthy choices, using identifying

Circles while in the community. The Star

then goes on the Super Star Tree, which is

painted on the wall located on the 3rd floor

of the Hudson Center.

The person receiving the most Stars in a

month receives a certificate and her/his

picture taken and displayed in the lobby of

the Hudson Center. The winner is also enti-

tled to choose an activity of her/his choice

and choose a person to go with them one

day during the month.

First winner of the Super Star Award goes

to:

SANDY SEELY! 15 TOTAL STARS FOR THE

MONTH OF FEBRUARY.

Her mother says this has worked great!

Congratulations, Sandy!

2nd Place is Larry Benda, Yolanda Dewey,

and Debbie Story

3rd Place is Michelle Meier

Annual Survey

The Wyoming Department of Health, Behavioral

Health Division, will be conducting their annual certifica-

tion review beginning at our Jackson locations on May

2nd and completing the process in Fremont County from

May 3rd through May 5th. In addition to maintaining ac-

creditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Re-

habilitation Facilities (CARF) Community Entry Services

must also be certified by the Wyoming Department of

Health in order to provide services. The review will be

comprehensive focusing upon many areas to include pol-

icy reviews, inspections of our facilities, records review

and many other areas to help CES in providing quality

services. Let’s make sure we show all the wonderful

things we are doing to support the persons served. Dur-

ing all times we expect staff to be friendly, welcoming

and accommodating to the requests made by the survey-

ors. If you have any questions about the certification

process please contact Shawn Griffin (307) 856-5576 x

225.

If you have a complaint or would like information about any service provided by Community Entry Services, please contact the administration office or any of the program directors in Riverton, Lander, Jackson, or Casper, Wyoming.

CES is a 501(c)(3), private not-for-profit

Wyoming Corporation.

May I Introduce… Sam Cummin

recently

moved here

from Germa-

ny. His past

work experi-

ence includes

assisting several International

disabled military pilgrimages

and high school kids summer

programs for Wyoming Cath-

olic College. He wants to

work for CES because of his

previous experiences he

thinks he would enjoy this job

and strengthen the community

at the same time. He comes

from a military family of four

brothers and one sister who

now live in the states as well.

When not working he enjoys

drawing, playing guitar, soc-

cer and all forms of tea.

Rana Friday is back. She

has lived in Wyoming almost

all her life. She moved to Mis-

souri for 6 months but she

missed Wyoming so she

moved home. She previously

worked for CES for almost 5

1-800-quitnow

As an organization, we are dedicated to the welfare of our em-ployees and their dependents; however, we have to make every effort to control the cost of health insurance in order to continue providing the benefit. We will be increasing the premiums for individuals who use tobacco effective January 1st, 2017. We support tobacco cessation programs and any individual who is tobacco free for the 6 month peri-od prior to January 1st, 2017 will be considered a non-tobacco user. (In other words, an employee who stops using tobacco on July 1st, 2016 and continues to be tobacco free, will be a non-tobacco user on January 1st, 2017) For more information please refer to the letter rout-ed out through the paychecks.

years and worked

in a facility like

this in Missouri.

She wants to work

for CES because

she misses working

with the individu-

als at CES and would like to

come back to work with them

again. She is married with three

children and has two step chil-

dren. When shes not working

she enjoys crocheting, fishing,

camping and quilting.

Teresa Clarke is back. Teresa

has worked for CES before and

has returned. She has lived in

Lander almost her

entire life; for the

last 30 years. She

has two girls, one

that is graduating

high school this

year. She has a

wonderful long

term boyfriend. When shes not

working she loves doing anything

that involves being outside! Wel-

come everyone to the CES team!