Greene County MO - Family Treatment Court

🎉 TOMORROW NIGHT! 🎉 National Night Out at Meador Park!

👉 Check out some seriously cool police vehicles
👉 Climb aboard an epic fire truck
👉 Watch the K9s show off their skills
👉 FREE hotdogs, ice cream, and popcorn from Ozark Mountain Popcorn
👉 Bounce houses and TONS of fun activities for kids!
👉 Discounted swimming at Meador Pool ($1 admission or free with a canned food donation, 4-7 p.m.) ~ Donations benefit Ozarks Food Harvest
👉 PICKLEBALL! ~Equipment provided or bring your own!
👉 Puppies! ~ Visit the Rescue One tent (nice shady spot) to pet all the puppies!
👉 Don't miss the ultimate showdown -- the Police vs Fire softball game starting at 7 p.m. NEW THIS YEAR -- Kids get to run the bases and there are cool prizes up for grabs during the game!

No need to sign up—just come and enjoy the fun! 🎈

📅 THIS WEDNESDAY! Day of Hope at the O'Reilly Center: 9a.m. - 12p.m. With a 𝒇𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝑷𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐 𝑰𝑫𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑩𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝑪𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒔. Monthly medical services provided by RNs, Mercy's MSU Care Clinic, Springfield-Greene County Health, and APO Community Health Center.

Contact [email protected] for event details or eligibility questions.

There are hundreds of children waiting for an advocate as they navigate the court system. Find out how you can make a difference in the life of a child just like this amazing group! Next training August 8th.

https://mo-southwest.evintosolutions.com/volunteerapplication

🌟 Celebrating 5 Years of Jeni’s Sobriety! 🌟

Today marks a significant milestone for our beautiful Peer Recovery Specialist, Jeni Cornelison — 5 years sober! Your incredible courage, determination, and resilience are truly inspiring.

Jeni, your journey is a testament to your strength and commitment. We are all so proud of you and honored to celebrate this achievement with you. FTC and our participants are better because you’re on our team!

Graduation days are always bittersweet but we’ll say this one was a little extra bittersweet!

Today, we celebrated FIVE new FTC graduates and all that they have accomplished! (And let us just say, their support networks SHOWED UP!!👏🏻)
Additionally, today, our FTC Coordinator, Ashley Armstrong, shared that this would be her last FTC Graduation in her current role as she will be taking on a new position with Children & Family Futures working with other FTC programs across the country beginning in August.

We are so thankful for every staff member and participant that touches our program and we wish nothing but the best for Ashley and our graduates! Congratulations to all! 😊

📣 Special shout out to Springfield Recovery Community Center for hosting us! You all are always so helpful and instrumental in making sure our event goes off without a hitch 😊

PARENT CAFE -- THIS THURSDAY! Parenting can be tough -- at all age levels. That's why we offer Parent Cafes that help create healthy families and give adults direction on how to be the BEST parents possible -- in A FUN WAY! CHILD CARE INCLUDED! Learn more about Parent Cafes HERE: https://cpozarks.org/programs/parent-cafes/

Lewis Foundation at The Fairbanks Dream Center

Love to hear this!!

The RHP sees a need for Mommy & Me housing in Springfield. Seeing the need for this we are getting ready to open a home. We currently are looking for any donations to help this need!!
If you have any questions please reach out to us!

In observance of Independence Day, all Greene County offices, departments, and 31st Circuit judicial courts will be closed on Thursday, July 4th and Friday, July 5th.

Do you need help cooling your home this summer? Apply for our LIHEAP Summer Cooling Program. Call, click, or come by for an application. Eligibility requirements apply, electric only, a shut off notice is required.

Last Wednesday, our regular FTC was cancelled due to the Juneteenth holiday… but don’t worry - our team and participants stayed BUSY!

Our amazing Parent Resource Coordinator (Lindsey) and Peer Recovery Specialists (Carolyn/Jeni/Stacy) put on two family friendly events for our participants and their kids to attend in place of court.

Up first, a paint event where our families got an extra opportunity for parenting time while they painted new artwork for Judge Hosmer’s court room!

Meanwhile, our FTC Coordinator (Ashley A), Clinical Director (Ashley M), and Burrell Peer Emily T. Co-facilitated their very first Celebrating Families! Group Leader training for FTC staff as part of their process to become train the trainers through National Association for Children of Addiction!

Lastly, our PRC & Peers hosted another awesome event at CASA of Southwest Missouri where Chef Grandma taught our participants how to make a new crockpot recipe! Families who participated also got to take home a cookbook and a crockpot!

Needless to say, we are SO proud of all the hard work our team put in last week for the betterment of our program 🤍

Sending love and appreciation to all the amazing fathers out there on this special day! 🫶🏻

If you're going through your clothes, please think of Kids Inn Child Care. We could really use clothes in all sizes from 18 months to youth medium, especially sizes 2T to 5T. We use these clothes when kids have accidents while they're with us. We also are in need of brand-new underwear in all sizes.

Special Instructions:
- Please make sure all items are clean and in good condition.
- If you can, sort the items by size and type.

Thank you so much for donating to Kids Inn. We're so grateful for our wonderful Kids Inn community! If you need more information, feel free to reach out to us at 417.368.0076 or [email protected].

Update: this form will no longer accept registrations bc they have closed. We invite you to still attend the party - there is lots to be had! Once there you can get on a waitlist for shoes.

We might be firmly in summer mode, but it's never too early to start thinking about Back-to-School time! Summer's Last Bash is going to be on Friday, August 9th, and to beat the heat this year we're going to be partying from 6-8 p.m. Registration IS required to participate in giveaways, so sign up at https://northpointmo.wufoo.com/forms/r160hvv80ye6vkx/ to get in on the fun. We can't wait to see you for games, food, haircuts, and some giveaways before school starts back!

This past week, some of the FTC team had the opportunity to travel to Anaheim, California, for the RISE24 National Treatment Court Conference.. We came, we saw, we learned, and of course had some fun along the way!

We are grateful for the experiences and knowledge shared and look forward to bringing it back with us 💜

CASA Clubhouse serving more kids in more ways than imagined In its first six months, the CASA Clubhouse in Springfield served about 850 foster kids from Greene, Christian and Taney counties.

Thinking of new mothers, working mothers, stay-at-home mothers, mothers who have lost children, those who have lost mothers, single mothers, those yearning to be mothers, those with strained mother & child relationships, and those who have chosen not to be mothers.

Free training alert! Open to professionals, educators, childcare providers, parents and anyone who works with children!
Register here https://sl4k.app.neoncrm.com/eventReg.jsp?event=30904&

Southwest Missouri's Largest JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION - It's back - Bigger & Better in 2024!

Join us for a full weekend of fun & entertainment:
✅ Friday, June 14 - Turnt Up Tour at the Gillioz Theatre
✅ Saturday, June 15 - Juneteenth Community Celebration at the EXPO Center
✅ Saturday, June 15 - The Milly Project Film Screen and Q&A with Performers
✅ Sunday, June 16 - Silver Springs Park's Program & Projects Tour
✅ Sunday, June 16 - Juneteenth Gospel Choir Celebration at Washington Avenue Baptist Church

Thank you to our many sponsors including our Presenting Sponsors: Visit Missouri, City of Springfield, MO, NAACP Springfield, & Community Partnership of the Ozarks.

On May 22nd, we're hosting another Community Parent Cafe! These are a great opportunity to learn and share with other parents while learning about protective factors, healing, and resilience in children and families. There is no cost to attend and childcare and dinner are included, but you must be registered to attend.

🏠 Join us for the "All About Tenants Event" on Saturday, June 8th. This FREE event will be held at the O’Reilly Center for Hope (1518 E Dale St) from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Lunch will be provided.

Tenants will learn about their rights, basic budgeting, fair housing, renting 101, and advocacy. Over lunch, tenants will have an opportunity to engage with service providers in the housing, legal, neighborhood, and tenant sectors.
Registration is on the flyer and available here: https://forms.office.com/r/tvLbmUzG8X

The Landlord Tenant Education Committee is hosting this free event and is a collaborative between the Ozarks Alliance to End Homelessness and CPO's Housing Collaborative.

Wishing a Happy Mother’s Day to all of the incredible and strong mothers of the world! 💐

We also would like to give a few special shout outs to our friends for helping put on a great Mother’s Day Karaoke Event for our FTC Moms this week:

🌸 thank you to Springfield Recovery Community Center for hosting us!

🌸thank you to Bambinos Cafe for donating a delicious meal!

🌸 thank you to CASA of Southwest Missouri for putting together gift bags for our moms!

🌸thank you to our very own team for planning and executing this wonderful event!

Pet Therapy of the Ozarks PTO is happy to introduce a few furry friends for our Clubhouse visitors. Aaron and Leif will be here tomorrow morning for their first visit, and Anna and Koda will join us later this month. We think this is pretty paw-tastic!

Happy Administrative Professionals Day to our FTC Support Staff, Donna, and FTC Clerk, Brandy!

We couldn’t do what we do without you, thank you 🤍