March Snapshot 2012 San Diego ASYMCA

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Enchantment Under The Sea

Compiled & Edited by Cat Quirk

San Diego Armed Services YMCASan Diego Armed Services YMCASan Diego Armed Services YMCA

Volume 7, Issue 3March 2012

Camo for Kids 2012 at the University of San Diego

Serving 9,500 active-duty juniorenlisted military service mem-bers and their families each

month!

Check out what we did in February!

Camo For Kids at USD

Special Event

Father Daught er DanceYouth and Community OutreachOutingsWounded, Injured and Ill Programs

Social Work Mont hFamily OutreachI T Upgrade: Heading for t he

CloudFamily OutreachValent ines Day Part y

Special Event

In this Issue

Smiles adorned the faces of over 400 children from military families asthey filled the stands of the Jenny Craig Pavilion at USD on Saturday,February 6 for the men's basketball game against Santa Clara. For manyof the kids, this game marked their first live sporting event. For parents,it offered an exciting opportunity to enjoy a family outing free of the

stress of military life. It was the annual Camo For Kids event, hosted byUSD Athletics and the San Diego Armed Services YMCA for the fourthyear in a row. This partnership provided over 150 military families theopportunity to enjoy a free family outing of basketball, food and militarycommunity bonding.

Be sure to look out for our Spe-cial Edition Snapshot for morepictures and a closer look at our5th Annual Father DaughterDance.


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Naval Medical Centers Exciting Monthly Outings

Celebrating Social Work Month

Social Work Matters is this years theme of theNational Association of Social Workers (NASW)Social Work Month (held each March) to raisepublic awareness of the social work profession.

To mark the occasion, the Family Outreach

team recently held their 2nd annual luncheonmeet and greet with social workers on staff in

various departments at the Naval Medical Cen-ter. A high percentage of counseling referralsto the ASY come directly from social workers atthe NMC. Social work certainly does matter atthe San Diego ASYin 2011 Family Outreachsocial workers touched the lives of 92 juniorenlisted military families per month.

Armed Services YMCA at Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) coordinated some very exciting events inthe month of February. It was packed with Valentines Day treats and wonderful donation deliveries, Horse-back Riding at Cornerstone Therapeutic Riding Center for our Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Intensive Out-patient Program, a delicious dinner brought by the generous members of Pinnacle Forum, a whale watchingtrip thanks to the San Diego Anglers that hosted over 45 wounded service members and their guests, and ourmonthly Sail Plane Gliding activity! We also arranged a Spa Day in partnership with co-sponsor Barbara Abelto provide 19 wives, mothers, and caretakers of the wounded, injured, and ill a much needed break. Lastly,the patients enjoyed the company of the sorority Pi Beta Phi for ASYs annual Be My Valentine Game Night.The event featured a photo booth and a matchmaking game show.

The team of ASY Social Workers visiting the Naval Medical Center. Leftto Right: Marion Greenwood, MSW, Ashley Wooldridge, MSW, CarinaEspinoza, MSW, Amanda Cross, LCSW (Senior Program Director), ColeenCobbs, LCSW, Amy de Meules, LCSW.


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Valentines Day Party for Deployed

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March9 KUSI Shopping Spree22ASYMCA Neighborhood Exchange2316th Annual ASYMCA Golf Classic26 Computer Giveaway

April4-6 YCO Spring Program Open House5 MonteVista Mother Daughter Tea

13 KUSI Shopping Spree21 Healthy Kids Day23 Computer Giveaway26 Neighborhood Exchange26 Volunteer Orientation

Visit our Website Event Calendar formore events, updates, and free ticket

giveaways!

Calendar of events

Heading for the Cloud: ASYMCA gets a IT upgrade

We are completely revamping the way we help military families! Withfunding graciously provided by the Parker Foundation, we have hired Cloud 4

Good to create and assist with implementing a participant database on aSalesforce platform. Using this software will put us in the cloud, transformour behind the scenes business processes and put us on the cutting edge of

web-hosted technologies. We kicked off this partnership with Social VenturePartners (SVP), an organization that provides leadership and technology guid-ance to non-profits, last Spring. We are very grateful for their donation oftime, talent, and vision they have helped us to create.

Check out ourMilit ary Volunt eer Programs

March Calendar

www.mil i taryymca.orgUnder Active Duty

Since that time, our ASY IT team, led by Ken Davenport from SVP, Lyndsay Neer from YCO, AmandaCross from Family Outreach, and Katie DesBois and Brittany Catton from PR and Development, has been hardat work exploring the layout for the new system to house our many needs. Amanda noted, In Family Out-reach, we are especially excited to begin electronic charting, enabling social workers access to real time re-ports on client progress in counseling and streamlining our processes. The new system will enable depart-ments to share information about program participants and donations, event participation, and will facilitatesharing the impact that we make on military life. While our services will always be free, you can also look for

an ASY membership tied to this system in the future!

The San Diego Armed ServicesYMCA celebrated Valentines Daywith military families at a new lo-cation this year! Military familieswho have a family member de-ployed enjoyed a wonderful after-noon at the Reuben H. Fleet Sci-ence Center. Families explored themany exhibits of the Fleet ScienceCenter and enjoyed the newestIMAX movie free of charge.


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Hill Creek School of Santee, CASan Diego Chapter No. 2, DisabledAmerican Veterans

Brownie Troop # 6734Mr. Chris PedersenSundt FoundationSan Diego County Employees

Charitable Organization (CECO)

Our Latest donors and

contributors

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Thank you Corporate Partner Members

and Major Donors...

Sut herland Management CompanyThe Spiva Family

Foundation

The San Diego ASY would like to extend a bigthank you to USD Athletics for their continueddonation of basketball tickets for the Camo forKids event. This year, we had over 150 militaryfamilies attend the game! Also, a special thankyou to Jersey Mikes for the delicious sand-wiches that were provided to the fans.


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Final thoughts...From the Desk of Executive Director Paul Steffens:

As I look at this SNAPSHOT, several things pop out. First, the

smiling and happy daughters enjoying their own very special eve-ning with their fathers a wonderful bonding evening that willnever be forgotten. And yes, we are exploring options for a MotherSon bonding event. The other item that I am continually remindedof by each SNAPSHOT is the fact that without solid partnershipsand support from the San Diego Community, military and civilian,in presenting our programs, we could never offer as many pro-grams nor could we serve as many families. Thank you all for

your continued support of our programs and military families. Asyou see on the last page, we reached a new high in the averagemonthly program participation.Let me close by congratulating our outstanding team of SocialWorkers who provide invaluable family counseling services tostrengthen family bonding as they make 200 home visits a month.H a p p y S o c i a l W o r k M o n t h . We also could not survive with-

out the solid support of our donors who provide the necessaryfunding for our programs. This support, plus our many fantasticvolunteers, help put the smiles on the faces you see.

For m ore inform ation on how YOU

can make a dif ference

[email protected]

www.mil i taryymca.org

Support the San Diego ASY through the 16th AnnualStars & Stripes Fishing, Golf and Music Festival!

100% of the proceeds from our Auction Items and Sponsorships willbenefit ASYMCA programs. Please contact Katie DesBois at 858-751-

5755 or [email protected] to donate.


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SAN DI EGO ARMED SERVI CES YMCA

AVERAGE MONTHLY PROGRAM PARTI CI PATI ON

The San Diego Armed Services YMCA serves over 9880 service membersand their family members each month! Thank you to our wonderful do-nors and volunteers- It is with your support that we are able to reach so

many individuals with our programs that make military life easier!

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