A Caring Heart Case Management, Inc.

Today, Kenansville Independence Center took a trip to Buffalo Lanes Erwin Family Bowling Center in Erwin. They had a strikingly good time and enjoyed the newly installed LED Screen that changes while you are bowling.🎳🎳🎳🎳😍

Our Wilson day program enjoyed painting masks at the Wilson Arts Center. The image with the horse is from a visit to Morgan Manor in Elm City where consumers feed horses.

A Caring Heart's offices and day programs will be closed Monday, September 2 in celebration of Labor Day. Services will be provided per consumer choice. Have a safe and fun holiday!

Here's another creative project from our Kenansville Independence Center- Sea Shell Beach ⛱️ Canvas. Mixed media and multi-textural. Creative work!

Our Kenansville Independence Center took a trip to the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher 🐟 in Kure Beach. Word has it they had a jaw-dropping, whale of a good time 😍🐳🦭

Here's another Smithfield project. 😍 They turned pizza boxes into laptops. The consumers filled in a blank QWERTY keyboard to work on letter identification. The challenge was doing it out of order from the alphabet song. They did well. For the screen, each consumer picked five icons. They had lots of fun with this project.

Our Kenansville Independence Center got crafty and made wreaths. Nice work!!!

Our Smithfield day program participated in an activity called Two Big Birds. They took two pieces of yellow paper and made a simple origami fold and added an elastic band to create a mask. Once everyone had a bird beak, they pulled bird jokes and riddles from a cup and asked each other for the answers. Why did the chicken cross the road???😍🐓🐔

Yesterday was Science Day in the Rocky Mount office. Each consumer had the chance to experiment with 3 different activities - volcano eruption, mixing color master, and foamy fountain. Before the experiments began, they had to first write down their expectations for the results of the experiments. Next, they followed each step in the experiment, and then they wrote down what actually happened. The consumers really enjoyed using their math skills, science skills, and team work to make this a successful day!!!

Our Kenansville Day Program took a trip to Aloha Safari Zoo in Cameron, NC last Friday. Aloha Safari Zoo supports over 300 species of animals - many that are rescued. The group really enjoyed the Safari ride.

Our Smithfield day program participated in a clock making activity. They wrapped the clocks in yellow duct tape and used printed numbers. This activity builds number recognition and time-telling skills. The group also discussed the sun - its purpose - giving us light and warmth and using it to measure the time of day. Good job!

Our Smithfield day program had an out of this world activity on Tuesday. They created models of the solar system by tracing, coloring, cutting and pasting planets on to a board. It was a team effort. And to add to the experience, they watched the The Magic School Bus Gets Lost in Space.

Our Jacksonville #2 day program practiced their team-building skills last week with several challenging activities. Go Jax #2!!!

Last Monday, our Smithfield day program practiced their marketing skills with imaginary fast food franchises. They made up the name of their businesses and an ad for their new value meal.

Consumers chose the price and the day program manager went to each burger joint to order. He gave them the incorrect amount of money to see if they could correctly identify the amounts given and the correct amount needed to purchase a value meal.

How do you like the meals and restaurant names the consumer chose? Creative! 😍

Our Jacksonville #2 day program volunteered at Onslow Community Outreach last week. Good job!

Our Smithfield office practiced creating resumes and interview skills. One consumer who loves her paperwork served as the hiring manager, asking, "Why do you want the job?"

Our Jacksonville day programs participated in a fun activity today. They painted portraits of each other. 😍

She sells seashells by the seashore. Can you say it three times without a mistake? 😍 Our Smithfield consumers played a game with tongue twisters. They listened to tongue twisters and repeated them three times. They also created artwork with the tongue twisters. What a fun way to bring clarity to one's speech and to work on oral motor skills. Strengthening oral motor skills has many benefits including reducing the chances of choking while eating.

Our Rocky Mount day program had a relaxing week last week. They started out the week with sharing a cold pop treat with their adopted grandparents at The Gardens of Nashville assisted living home. Other activities included putting their creative juices to work using random supplies from the center's art closet to build a fairy dream land. They topped off the week by joining their adopted grandparents for lunch at Parkers in Wilson NC. 😍

Treasure Hunting. Our Smithfield day program mixed colorful crafting sand with sand from Surf City and hid 10 items in the sand. Consumers took turns using tongs and a spoon to find the treasures using fine motor and identification skills.

Our Goldsboro day program got their creative juices flowing with plastic forks and spoons. Nice work! Creative indeed!😍

Our Smithfield Office Manager, Elle, served as the special guest proctor for a spelling bee. Consumers spelled their names and two or three other words. It was fun competition with a tie for first place among all of the consumers.

Here's a few more photos from our Tex Mex Fiesta on June 28 at the Duplin Events Center. Sarah Evans, our Safety Director, created a fun learning experience with water guns simulating putting out a fire. The other photos are of some of our CAB (Consumer Advisory Board) members and staff, Goldsboro Program Director, Jacksonville Day Program Manager, and our CAB advisor.😍

More experiments and other food-related activities from our Smithfield crew. 😍 They performed a sugar density experiment to demonstrate that the more sugar you dissolve in a liquid the heavier it is. They used colored water to show the change in density more clearly. They performed the experiment twice -once with regular granulated sugar and again with Equal.

BRAIN FOOD: Consumers paired up in teams of two and made an informational poster about a food that is good for brain health. They served the food they reported on giving out samples to all.

😊Our Rocky Mount office put on an Independence Day Kickback on 7/3. The morning started off very relaxed with music, craft stations (no sew pillows, necklace making, and pom-pom ornaments), and a hydration station. They topped off the afternoon with a grilled hotdog lunch and water wars and ice pops. 😊

A Caring Heart put on a big hoedown on Friday, June 28 at the Duplin Events Center in Kenansville. It was a company-wide event with over 500 consumers and staff attending. The theme was Mex-Tex Fiesta replete with line dancing, sing-offs, Tex-Mex food prepared by the Blue Willow Cafe, music by DJ Wallace, and a dunking booth. Carol Choate, President of A Caring Heart, and Zak Mitchell, HR Director, volunteered for the dunking booth to raise funds for the NC Special Olympics. Competitions included line dancing with our Wilmington office winning first place and costume contests with staff and consumer from Wilmington winning these competitions. The sing-off winner went to a consumer from our Rocky Mount office. Congratulations to the winners! 👩‍🌾👨‍🌾😍

A Caring Heart's offices and day programs will be closed Thursday, July 4 in observance of Independence Day. Services will be provided per consumer choice. Have a safe and fun holiday! 🇺🇸

Our Pitt County consumers got in to a crafty project and created bird feeders with bird seed. How did they get the seeds to stick? 😍