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Promotes #SiblingsMatter to drive awareness, educate families and raise money for Easter seals. Springfield, MA (PRWEB) May 01, 2013 As the number of people with disabilities rises each year, so do the emotional, physical and financial challenges faced by their caregivers. Today, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) launched a social effort to raise awareness of these challenges faced by the millions of siblings who care for brothers and sisters with a disability. The...
Southern California Vons and Pavilions Stores Hold April Charity Campaign SANTA ANA, Calif., April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Vons and Pavilions grocery stores across Southern California are on the final push of the April fundraising campaign in support of local residents with disabilities. At all 262 locations customers will have the option at every check-out counter of making a contribution to Easter Seals Disability Services. Donations will help Easter Seals provide local autism...
CHICAGO, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A.C. Moore, in its fourth annual in-store campaign for Easter Seals, offers a fun, family event to support Easter Seals Make the First Five Count® initiative and help families living with autism and other disabilities. (Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110401/MM76153LOGO) On April 20, A.C. Moore is hosting an in-store "Make and Take" craft event for children and their families. Using Creative Hands® foam, kids can...
Newly Released Spanish Screening Makes the Early Years Count for Spanish Speaking Families Nationwide CHICAGO, April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Easter Seals released the Spanish version of the online developmental screening, the Ages & Stages Questionnaires® (ASQ), making it one step closer to its goal of having all kids under five screened for developmental delays, autism and other disabilities, and allowing for every family to access the screening free of...
Easter Seals will welcome legendary broadcast journalist Tom Brokaw as he tours The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Inter-Generational Center in Silver Spring, Md., on April 16. The Center houses The Safeway, Inc., Child Development Center and The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Adult Day Services program. Silver Spring, MD (PRWEB) April 12, 2013 On April 16, Easter Seals Serving DC | MD | VA will welcome legendary broadcast journalist Tom Brokaw as he tours The Harry &...
Make the First Five Count® and Act for Autism® at All 139 A.C. Moore stores with a Free Craft Event and Register Donation Program in March & April CHICAGO, March, 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the fourth year in a row, there's an easy and crafty way families can help people living with autism. A.C. Moore Arts & Crafts, Inc. has teamed up with Easter Seals for an in-store campaign and free crafting event that asks customers to Act for Autism® beginning March...
Posit Science offers BrainHQ at easterseals.com CHICAGO, March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New research in how our brains work shows that we can improve our memory, speed up how we process information, and achieve many other gains by training our brains. The online exercises from Posit Science's BrainHQ are provided in Easter Seals Train Your Brain Challenge and give a useful and fun way to train our brains. (Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110401/MM76153LOGO)...
Easter Seals Teams with Vista Life Sciences CHICAGO, March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Online exercises and other web-based tools are showing promise to enhance our memory, improve our focus, speed our thinking and achieve other gains in brain function. These same tools are also showing real promise for people living with neurological conditions, illness or other disabilities. As a trusted resource for people with disabilities and their families, Easter Seals and its new...
Easter Seals New York, BNY Mellon and Dixon Center announce local veterans initiative SYRACUSE, N.Y., March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Easter Seals New York, in partnership with the Staff Sergeant Donnie D. Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Community Services (Dixon Center), will celebrate the launch of its Vets2Jobs program at BNY Mellon in Syracuse, NY. Keynote speaker, COL David W. Sutherland, United States Army, Retired, as well as other military, education,...
Host first of four convening sessions as part of new community-wide Easter Seals Military & Veterans Initiative CINCINNATI , Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Easter Seals TriState, in partnership with Dixon Center, hosted the first of four convening sessions for its Military & Veterans Initiative. Cincinnati leaders from military, business, education, non-profit and healthcare arenas gathered to map out critical services for area veterans, military service...
