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Professional Lucha Libre wrestlers visited the Happy House Community United Starbird Youth Center to deliver an anti-bullying message during a class on How to Make Good Choices based on the Way to Happiness. Astonishingly, the biggest and most famous of these wrestlers revealed that he himself had been bullied as a child.
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Good Choices Kids in Columbus Set a Good Example
Here are some pics from Columbus Happy House Mentor, Monique Williams, and her Good Choices Kids from Linden Recreational Center in Columbus, Ohio.
The first pic has Monique Williams and the kids outside the Nursing Home, which they visited Feb 12th. The second pic is a shot of Holly, the magnificent Art Teacher from Linden Rec Center. The kids made scores of beautiful long stem flowers with Holly’s help, and visited the residents of the home as coordinated by Monique, gifting each of them with a flower and a smile. The fourth pic is Carolyn, the Public Service Relations person at the Home, with the kids and their art!
The residents LOVED the visit and the gifts, and the kids surely put numerous Good Choices precepts into action from Set a good Example to Honor and Help your Parents to Help Others Who have Helped You, and Treat Others as You Would Want them to treat you! We hear there’s a plan in the works for Easter! Hat’s off GC Columbus kids!
Letter from the San Fernando Valley Coalition on Gangs
October 12, 2012
Peter Kjenaas
Happy House
9420 Reseda Blvd., #572
Northridge, CA 91324
Dear Peter:
Thanks to you and the volunteers from Happy House, the San Fernando Valley Coalition on Gangs held a successful Salute to Kids, which featured more than forty agencies offering their, while providing a day of entertainment and activities for the families in the Canoga Park area.
This event helped us toward out mission of reducing violent gang crime in the San Fernando Valley by reaching out to a high-risk community,providing them with the tools to become better parents and to steer their children into activities that offer positive alternatives to gang involvement.
We are so grateful that Happy House is always willing to participate in our events. The responses from the kids and their parents are so positive and the arts and crafts area is always a wonderful addition. Special thank you and regards to Nancy, as well.
We look forward to sharing the Coalition’s success with you in our newsletter. In the meantime, if you would like to see, firsthand, how the Coalition operates, we would be delighted for you to attend our meetings or events as honored guests, again. Please contact me at (818) 374-6894 if you are interested. Please accept our sincere thanks for your support.
Warmly,
Sandy Kievman
Chair, Coalition Steering Committee
San Fernando Valley Coalition on Gangs is a Project of Community Partners
A 501 (c) Corporation 95-4302067
Bishop Harris Brings the FITE for Good Choices to Watts
On September 22, 2012, Happy House was a proud sponsor of the For KIDS About KIDS Celebration hosted by the Victory in Christ Ministries “The Love Corner” at the Laurel Street Missionary Baptist Church in the Watts area of Los Angeles.
The celebration was the brain child of Bishop Harris who leads the church and created this event to reach out to the community and bring them resources such as study skills, drug awareness as found in the Truth About Drugs Program and the Good Choices Program based on The Way to Happiness.
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The Way to Happiness Convention Inspires Good Choices
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On the weekend of September 7 – 9th, The Way to Happiness Foundation hosted an international convention at its headquarters in Glendale, CA. Happy House’s entire staff and volunteers attended most of the weekend and were delighted to hear extraordinary wins and programs using The Way to Happiness worldwide.
Happy House Plays at Chatsworth Chamber Family Day
The Chatsworth Chamber of Commerce produced a fun day for families on September 15th filled with booths, food, games and music. Happy House and the Good Choices Program was proud to be a sponsor for the event and host a booth featuring the carnival game, The Big Valley. Simply by rolling a softball sized ball along two rails children of all ages were engaged in testing their skills and tuning in their effort to get the ball to land in The Big Valley.
“This really helped to popularize our booth,” said Executive Director of Happy House, Peter Kjenaas. “The organizers at the Chatsworth Chamber really hit on a great idea to bring the families out to the resource booths. It was a good choice and we appreciate good choices!”
Happy House passed out nearly 500 booklets and met hundreds of parents and children. Nancy was able to get out for two hours in the heat of the afternoon and sign autographs and take some photo ops with the kids. “This was a really fun event,” said Nancy. “The kids are having so much fun with this simple but very challenging game and we can really meet and get to know the parents.”
In addition, Happy House raffled off a Bart basket and the winner is ALEX SILVA!!!!
Seattle Good Choices Kids Get-Up, Get-Out and Get EVERYBODY Moving!
The How to Make Good Choices Kids’ Club Seattle participated in the 2012 Celebrate Shoreline Parade on August 18, 2012. The theme this year was “Get-up, Get-out, Get moving”! And that’s exactly what our 19 superkids and 8 adults did!!!
Check out the action of our 19 superstar kids and 8 superstar adults led by the incredible Megan Humphries: They blew bubbles, jumped rope, rode scooters, bikes, trikes, pulled a wagon, pushed strollers and handed out sports stickers and little toys for the kids watching the parade!
Along the parade route, our kids and adults gave out 701 The Way to Happiness booklets as gifts to the parade watchers! The booklets were very well received and many parents started reading them right away. The Kids’ Club children made up a game of getting the booklets out to every person along the parade route and they had a lot of fun with it!!
Chatsworth/Porter Ranch Chamber of Commerce Family Festival
Join us at the Chatsworth/Porter Ranch Chamber of Commerce Family Festival on September 15, 2012.
Happy House will be there with a fun booth. There will be fun and rides for the kids.
Advance all-day activity tickets for children can be purchased right here. And, 50% of the ticket purchase will be donated to Happy House.
Your kids can have a blast and you can support Happy House at the same time!
Click the button below to buy your tickets and pick them at the Happy House booth!
Lucky Number Seven
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The 7th annual Happy House Poker Fundraiser and Family BBQ at Nancy Cartwright’s home was, once again, the largest ever. More than three hundred poker players, party attendees, children and volunteers came out to have some family fun, play poker and support Happy House and the Good Choices Program. Some of the fun included (but was in no way limited to) face painting, a bouncy house and water slide, bingo, ping pong and a wide array of arts and crafts. All of this to the back-beat of Tony St Tone and his band.
Happy House-Community United Embraces New Partnerships
Happy House-Community United San Jose has a fabulous new group partnerships facilitated and led by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF)!
SVCF, the San Jose Earthquakes and their two support groups, Casbah and 1906 Ultras, have embraced the Starbird Community Center kids in an all-in mentoring program in the field of soccer.
Tickets and Team clothing, practice with the team and mentoring with the supporters make for an exciting adventure up in San Jose. SSFV also provided the Community United centers with soccer nets, balls and equipment! Here is a photo of the youth on San Jose Earthquakes’ Opening Day in March 2012.
