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Greetings from Diane Stowell - Care Connection Chairman

Welcome to the Kansas site of Epsilon Sigma Alpha International branch of CARE CONNECTION. The KSC Board of Director's committee to direct the activities for the Care connection for 2011-2012 are Sally Kreger and Chairman, Diane Stowell. We hope you will check often to see what we have going on with this wonderful ESA Program. There are many options for participation listed below.

ESA's Care Connection

The ESA Care Connection was created to facilitate the exchange of person-to-person philanthropic services. Members share their personal talents to provide support to others. It provides an opportunity for members to offer their help to others and to receive assistance during their own time of need. It utilizes the knowledge, expertise, and volunteer spirit of ESA members to share support and service to others in times of personal crisis. There are several divisions of the Care Connection: Personal Support Exchange of Personal Needs / Opportunities International Assistance Programs Relocation Services Contact our Care Connection Coordination if you need further information

The Care Connection Committee takes care of the President's State Project. President of the Kansas State Council, Marsha Barnes, has selected HOSPICE as her state philanthropic project this year. Find a local Hospice unit in your area or community and give it support this year. Visit the page often as we will post various ways you can support this excellent 501 c 3 non-profit organization. Below you will find some history and services of Hospice taken from the Wikipedia, the free on-line encyclopedia.

Report form for what your chapter did this year needs to be turned in by April 15 to Diane Stowell, Care Connection Chairman. Click the smile to obtain the report form:    

CARE CONNECTION

The Purpose: To provide caring services to those in need.
The Program: Care Connection is a link that provides service to Epsilon Sigma Alpha (ESA) members, their families, and others whom they recommend for assistance. The program was created solely to facilitate the exchange of person-to-person philanthropic services. Members share their personal talents to provide support to others. Simply put, it provides an opportunity for members to offer their help to others, as well as to receive assistance during their own times of need. It utilizes the knowledge, expertise, and volunteer spirit of ESA members to share support and service to others in times of personal crisis.

There are several divisions of service within the program:

• Local or International Assistance Programs – In my chapter, we call this Sister Assist, when we jump in with meals, child care, taxi service, even house-cleaning for a sister in need. In Kansas it is the prayer chain, or the help we give one another throughout ESA and can be applying for financial assistance from the Kansas Care and Share Fund, under the appropriate guidelines. ESA has developed several programs to assist chapters in developing resources for those in need through goods and support for extraordinary circumstances.
  
  
• Hope for Heroes - Provides boxes of goods and resources to support military service personnel and their families. We hope you will all be planning at least one event or time this year when you will gather items to send to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.



• Hats for Hope - Provides hats and other warm clothing for homeless individuals or those who have been displaced by a natural disaster. Check with Goodwill or Salvation Army or Red Cross to determine the greatest needs in your community and projects with which you can become involved to do “good works” and spread the name of Epsilon Sigma Alpha inviting new members to join.
  (Click button to obtain a pattern for a stocking cap for Hats for Hope.)



• Warm Welcome - Provides baby blankets, support, and information for new mothers and their babies in times when these materials may not be readily available in the home. Check out the hospitals in your area that these services and make “goodie bags” to be given to new moms in need of assistance.



• Disaster Support - Provides assistance for members who have experienced a catastrophic loss and would benefit from financial relief. A disaster fund is available in the form of a grant to provide immediate emergency relief.

Hope For Heros	"ESA has had a long history of supporting the men and women who serve in the armed forces in times of conflict dating back to World War II. We continue this lagacy by sending letters, and care packages to our troops whereever they are located throughout the world today. Hope for Heroes provides boxes of goods and resources to support the military service personnel and their families.

HOPE FOR HEROES:
The Hope for Heroes program provides an opportunity to show honor and appreciation for our country's service men and women. Epsilon Sigma Alpha members, friends and all those interested are encouraged to participate in a project or activity supporting a service person stationed overseas in honor of Veteran's Day and throughout the year.

ESA members and chapters have participated in a number of ways over the years.

• Create a care package with conveniences of home and letters of appreciation. Invite the community to participate.
• Plan a fun day out for the children and families here in the states.
• Celebrate local and national heroes at a local monument or government facility.

For more ideas and pictures about past Hope for Heroes activities, visit ESA's blog at: http://epsilonsigmaalpha.blogspot.com

Hope for Heroes Gift in Kind form - click here!

If you need to contact the Chairman, EMAIL

Diane Stowell - Care Connection Chairman for 2011-2012

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