Celebrating our BEGINNINGS team!
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| What's one of the best things about BEGINNINGS? Our team! 💚
On March 1, we celebrated all of our staff for Employee Appreciation Day! Â
Thanks to all of our BEGINNINGS team members who help support families across the state to make informed decisions and empower them to advocate for their child’s needs! We appreciate all that you do!Â
Learn more about our BEGINNINGS team.
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Upcoming Events and Webinars |
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Raising a healthy Deaf or Hard of Hearing (DHH) child in a small town or in the country requires partnering with and educating your local professionals, family, and support networks, as well as relentlessly pursuing information and opportunities on behalf of your child. This is a tool for rural families like yours, raising DHH children far from large towns and cities.Â
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This guide was developed by the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Parent to ParentÂ
Committee, an interdisciplinary, interagency/inter-organizational and diverse parent/professional group
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Self-confidence is crucial for getting along with others and making friends. Self-confident children see that other people like them and expect relationships to be satisfying and fun. Below are ways you can develop your child’s self-confidence: First, really believe that your child can be successful.
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Most parents have never had contact with a child with hearing loss until their own child is diagnosed as Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Yes, your family and child will need to work harder to make sure that language is truly accessible. The time you put in to these efforts is an investment in your child’s life long success.
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The CARE Project held their 6th Annual Parent Professional Collaborative at Wrightsville Beach in February and several BEGINNINGS staff attended. This conference brings together parents of children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing and the professionals who provide services to them. The goal of the annual conference is to enhance the relationships between parents and professionals by spending time learning, sharing and growing together. Â
The theme is year was "Changing the Culture of Communication.'' Joanna Chantemerle and Ale Casapia exhibited during the event, networking with families and professionals and sharing about BEGINNINGS services and mission. Erin Lucas, Toni Malone, Sheri Little, Chelsea Cashion and Karen Thomas enjoyed the many wonderful guest speakers, learning opportunities and collaboration.Â
Joanna Chantemerle, along with parent Kim Hill, presented "Resources in North Carolina '' during a parent breakout session.Â
For more information on The CARE Project, visit www.thecareproject.com.
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Joanna Chantemerle, our Associate Executive Director, participated in the Nonprofit Organization Day at the Sun Valley 14 Theater in Union County in February.Â
Several agencies attended the event to increase awareness of resources and services in the local community.Â
Joanna enjoyed sharing information about BEGINNINGS, which serves all 100 counties in North Carolina.Â
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Give a Little to Make a BIG Impact |
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BEGINNINGS recently received a very generous gift of $2,000 from Sertoma Inc., the national body of this amazing fundraising/volunteer organization.
Ellen Fort, Director of Development, and Diane Doak, Executive Director, joined the Raleigh Sertoma Club's President, Julie Southwick, for the check presentation.
These funds will be used for BEGINNINGS' Grants to Parents program, which helps families with hearing loss-related emergencies. BEGINNINGS values all our support by local, statewide and national foundations!
Please contact Ellen to learn more. For information about the Sertoma organization, visit www.sertoma.org.Â
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| Pictured Left to Right: Ellen Fort (BEGINNINGS Director of Development), Diane Doak (BEGINNINGS Executive Director) and Julie Southwick (Sertoma Club's President).Â
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Behind the Scenes with BEGINNINGS |
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Diane Doak
Executive Director
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There is March Madness in North Carolina, and I’m not just talking about Basketball! I am amazed when I look at our calendar and see all the good work that our parent educators (PE) are doing for the families we serve. In addition to planning for 3 family day retreats to learn more about IDEA advocacy post pandemic, we are collaborating with school districts and state agencies in western North Carolina to plan a transition to adulthood event. But the real impact I see are the individual meetings that our PEs are having with parents.
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Parents of children with a new diagnosis are learning about hearing technology for their child and about communication approaches so that they can make the best decisions for their child. For parents of school aged children, March begins the process of determining if their child is eligible for extended school year services, re-evaluations and writing Individual Education Plans for next school years! If you have a child who is Deaf or Hard of Hearing and live in North Carolina, you can receive BEGINNINGS services free of charge.Â
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If you need help learning about your child’s hearing diagnosis or have been invited to a school meeting and you don’t have a PE (or forget who your PE is!), contact BEGININGS at raleigh@ncbegin.org and ask for Kelleigh Bland. She is our new Director of Programs, and she will be happy to connect you to a PE to guide you.
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Have a topic you'd like to see in an upcoming newsletter? Let us know! Send an email to marketing@ncbegin.org on any information you'd like us to feature in a future edition.Â
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