Summer 2016 - Bay Cove Human Services

Summer 2016
Bay Cove Launches Intergenerational Cooking and Nutrition Class
In May, Bay Cove was thrilled to be among a group of 22 New England non-profits to receive “Healthy Food for
Every Age” grants from the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation. The funded programs are designed to help
older adults eat better and stay connected to their communities through community garden, cooking and nutrition
programs.
Bay Cove, specifically, has been awarded $20,000 over two years, which
will be used by our Kit Clark Senior Services to pilot a new intergenerational
cooking class, designed to teach older adults and their families how to
integrate fresh, local produce from farmers’ markets into their daily meals.
Beginning later this summer, Kit Clark will begin offering classes to seniors in
Dorchester and Boston (they need not be seniors currently receiving services
from Kit Clark—all in the community are welcome to participate). The classes
will eventually be held in Kit Clark’s kitchen at our 1500 Dorchester Ave.
location, but until current renovations on that space are completed, Kit Clark
is partnering with the Codman Square Neighborhood Center to host classes
at a community kitchen being developed in Codman Square.
The fresh produce used in the cooking classes will come from OASIS
(Opportunity Affirmation Sustainability Inspiration Success) on Ballou. This
urban agriculture project has taken root in a vacant 20,000 square-foot lot in
the Woodrow-Mountain neighborhood of Dorchester. There, OASIS on Ballou
incorporates urban agriculture with sustainable community development,
social equity, and social entrepreneurship, providing green job training, social
enterprise economic opportunities, and enterprise management with special
involvement from men of color.
IN THIS ISSUE
Another rewarding part of the cooking classes funded by the grant will
Friends Old and New Come Together at 2016
Bay Cove Changing Lives Gala. . . . . . . . . . . 4
be our collaboration with Dorchester youth volunteer group BOLDTeens.
Adolescents from the group will not only volunteer their time to set up the
kitchen for each session, but will also partake in the class alongside seniors.
This will allow us to help teach teens about the importance of healthy eating,
while uniting youth and elders within our community.
Our profound thanks to The Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation for
Donors and Volunteers Lend a Helping Hand . .5
CASPAR Celebrates Support from Throughout
Its Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Team Bay Cove Goes the Distance at This Year’s
Boston Marathon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..7
this opportunity to help Boston-area seniors. To learn more about the
foundation and its “Healthy Food for Every Age” grant program, visit www.
harvardpilgrim.org/foundation.
Donate by mail 66 Canal Street Boston, MA 02114
// Donate by phone 617.371.3000
© Bay Cove Human Services, Inc.
CEO’s Corner
Each year, in preparation for the start of a new fiscal year on July 1, we look to project what private dollars we think we can raise, and
where those dollars can best be used. This process never fails to highlight for all of us the importance of private support, and the
tremendous positive impact that this support has on the lives of the people we serve.
Bay Cove provides essential services to thousands of people every day. We take great pride in serving those thousands of people “one
person at a time,” with a complement of services that is crafted to meet each person’s unique needs and challenges. The private support
we receive each year enables us to do this, and makes a tremendous difference in the service options we can offer and, ultimately, the
success we can help people achieve.
Private support allows us to incorporate a personalized wellness check along with every home-delivered meal to a homebound senior.
Private support allows us to provide twice-weekly therapy groups to the toddlers in our Early Intervention program, rather than the
once-per-week covered by insurance. Private support allows us to ensure that all of our residential sites and the furnishings in them
are updated on a regular basis, because each person who comes to us deserves to live in a home that we would want for one of our
loved ones. Private support has enabled us to institute a number of wellness initiatives to try to reduce the 25-year discrepancy in life
expectancy between people with serious mental illness and those without.
In other words, your support is an essential component that enables Bay Cove to not simply deliver basic services, but to provide the
kind of personalized support that makes it possible for people to achieve their goals, despite the challenges they face. At Bay Cove, our
goal has never been to be the biggest provider of services—it’s always been to be the best provider of services. We often serve people
when other agencies can’t or won’t. For people who have experienced frustration in their treatment or on their path to recovery while
receiving more standardized services, our individualized programs often provide the final piece of the puzzle, helping them thrive and
succeed unlike ever before. And it’s thanks to you that we can pursue such innovative, out-of-the-box approaches to service and care.
As you read through this issue of the Bay Cove News, you’ll see plenty of examples of the many ways you can support our work. Whether
you attend a fundraising event—like our Changing Lives Gala (see p.4) or the
Strengthening Our Community event for CASPAR (p.6)—volunteer your time or
skills at one of our programs (see p.5), or simply send a monetary gift to us (like
Herbie, who you’ll read about on p.3), you are a significant part of helping to make
Bay Cove programs and services special, and we are most grateful.
We are very proud of the work that we do at Bay Cove and we work very hard to
ensure that everyone associated with our mission will share that sense of pride
in their association with our efforts. Everyone reading this contributes to the
fulfillment of Bay Cove’s mission. Your financial support, your advocacy, your help
in telling our story all contribute to the success of the people we serve, and help us
toward our vision of “Full Rich Lives for People with the Greatest Challenges.”
Bill Sprague
President & CEO
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Stepping Up for Mental Health Services at the 2016 NAMI Walk
On May 14, Bay Cove staff, clients and their families were
among the more than 5,000 dedicated advocates for
mental health services that showed up Artesani Park in
Brighton, for the 2016 NAMIWalk Massachusetts.
This annual event, hosted by the local chapter of NAMI
(National Alliance on Mental Illness), is one of dozens of
fundraising walks put on by the organization in cities across
the nation. The Massachusetts walk, though, is one of the
largest, and raised over $625,000—which will go toward
supporting mental health organizations and campaigns to
break down the stigma faced by individuals suffering from
mental illness.
Bay Cove was proud, as always, to register a team of
walkers to participate in this vitally important event to raise
not only money, but awareness of mental illness and the
reality of recovery.
A Story of Receiving and Giving
Part of what makes being associated with Bay Cove so rewarding—
whether you work for the agency, support the work we do, or receive
services from us—is the people you come into contact with and the stories you hear about their lives. For staff at our Kit Clark Senior Services,
one of those people is Herbie (pictured, left).
Herbie is a resident at one of the houses operated by our friends and
partners at Hearth, Inc., an organization devoted to solving the growing issue of elder homelessness. Each day, he looks forward to the
delicious and healthy lunch provided to him at home by Kit Clark’s
Nutrition Program. Despite a long career working for the railroads, Herbie
faced some hardships in his life that brought him in search of assistance
from these programs that help elders facing challenges.
Recently, our nutrition program received a thoughtful and generous
donation, which turned out to be from Herbie. When Kit Clark staff met
with Herbie to recognize him personally for his donation, he responded, “I
enjoy the meals you serve, and I wanted to say thank you.”
Call it a circle of giving, or call it “paying it forward.” Herbie received a
helping hand when he needed it most, and now his generosity will help
ensure that other seniors like him who need help at some point in their
lives will receive it. We think that’s a story that deserves to be shared, and
we thank you, Herbie!
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Bay Cove Hosts A Night to Remember at the 2016 Changing Lives Gala
Close to 300 Bay Cove staff members and supporters gathered at the Seaport Boston Hotel on May 19 to be a part of the agency’s biggest fundraiser of the year:
the Changing Lives Gala. The gala was a spectacular evening celebrating laughter, love and resilience, and Bay Cove’s vision of “full, rich lives for people with the
greatest challenges.”
Held for a third consecutive year within the glamorous Seaport Hotel’s Plaza Ballroom, the gala delighted guests with a cocktail reception and a delicious
gourmet dinner; live music from The Kenny Wenzel Quartet; and a hilarious and inspiring performance by the evening’s special guest, internationally-acclaimed
author and comedian Loretta LaRoche.
Overall, the evening was a fantastic success for Bay Cove, raising more than $275,000 through sponsorship, ticket sales, and auction purchases. Best of all, all
proceeds from the Changing Lives Gala truly go directly toward changing lives—supporting Bay Cove’s range of services for men, women and children.
All of us at Bay Cove offer our profound gratitude to all our Changing Lives Gala sponsors, including our Empowering Potential lead sponsor Liberty Mutual
Insurance; our Gala chairman, Bob Thomas; our phenomenal guest speaker, Loretta LaRoche; our auctioneer extraordinaire, Susan Wornick; filmmakers Dan and
Janet Boynton; and all the agency staff and volunteers who worked so hard to make the event such a wonderful evening for all who attended. Finally, we thank
all of our guests, who helped make the evening such a special one. Hope to see you all again in 2017! (To see more Gala photos, visit our Facebook page at www.
facebook.com/baycovehumanservicesinc, and “like” us.)
Clockwise from top left: Our guests from KPM & Associates pose
with Bay Cove Vice President and Controller Jamie Rihbany (far
right); Board of Directors member and Gala Chair Bob Thomas,
Chris Klaehn and Laura Thomas; Bay Cove President & CEO Bill
Sprague addresses the audience; Guests get into the joyous spirit of
the evening; Our special guest speaker, author/comedian Loretta
LaRoche, delighted the crowd with a side-splitting message about
appreciating life, and the importance of not taking ourselves so
seriously.
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Volunteers & Donors Contribute to Bay Cove in Many Ways
On Monday, May 2, two Bay Cove programs received a
much-appreciated helping hand, when 28 employees
from Liberty Mutual Insurance Company gave of their
time and volunteered as part of Liberty Mutual’s annual
“Serve With Liberty” community service initiative.
That day, volunteers came to Kit Clark Senior Services’
1500 Dorchester Ave. location, where they helped seniors
plant flowers in portable containers to bring home; and
to the Daniel C. Boynton Child Development Center
on Victory Road in Dorchester to work on some spring
yardwork and exterior beautification projects, and some
interior painting.
Serve with Liberty is a global initiative for Liberty Mutual,
which sees close to 25,000 company employees each
year providing much-needed support to charities across
the U.S. and around the world. Our profound thanks to all
the hard-working volunteers for all they did to beautify
our programs, and to brighten the days of Bay Cove’s
clients and staff members!
Also this spring, Bay Cove’s Early Intervention program was the recipient of some lovely, imaginative and hand-crafted generosity. The members of Quilters
Connection—a quilting guild made up of quilters from all across the region who meet in Waltham—donated 22 pieces of colorful and creative bedding to the EI
program, to be used by the age 3 and under children we serve.
Organizer Jane Norberg and her gifted and dedicated quilters (including among their number Bay Cove’s Director of Child & Family Services Candace Chang)
made these bright and beautiful “comfort quilts” for the program to use during naptimes. A number of the quilts were also given to families we serve to use at
home.
Our deep appreciation to Quilters Connection for giving the gift of warmth and comfort to the little ones!
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Spring and Summer are Seasons of Support for CASPAR
More than 150 guests were in attendance on April 7 for the 2016 “Strengthening Our Community”
fundraiser for CASPAR (Cambridge and Somerville Program for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
Rehabilitation). The event brought together civic, community and business leaders from
throughout Cambridge and Somerville, longtime supporters and brand-new friends, advocates
for men and women battling addiction and/or homelessness, and employees of CASPAR and Bay
Cove Human Services for a wonderful evening saluting those we serve, those who serve them, and
the generous supporters who help make the work we do possible.
At the event, CASPAR honored Richard C. Rossi, (pictured, center right) City Manager for the
City of Cambridge, with the Carl F. Barron Catalyst for Change Award. The award—named for a
longtime supporter of CASPAR’s work and presented by Carl’s son, Ken Barron—is given each year
to recognize important individuals who bring positive change to the community. Guests also heard
inspiring stories of success from graduates of CASPAR programs, and enjoyed a buffet reception
and a live auction—led this year by event chair Jeff Lockwood, Global Head of Communications at
Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, and Monica Brady-Myerov, veteran broadcast journalist
and founder of Listen Current (pictured, top right).
We’re thrilled to report that between the auction, ticket sales and sponsorship donations, this
year’s “Strengthening Our Community” fundraiser was CASPAR’s most successful to date, raising
more than $120,000 for our range of vital services for men, women and children.
All of us at CASPAR offer our deepest thanks to all our guests and generous donors, with
particular gratitude to our wonderful event sponsors (Please check out the Supporters page on our
website—www.casparinc.org—for a complete list!). Kudos also to our hosts, the Marriott Courtyard
Cambridge; our dedicated staff of volunteers who helped make the event shine; and the event’s
organizer—CASPAR’s Director of Development, Julia W. Londergan—for a truly amazing job!
Then, on June 16, CASPAR was a guest of honor at the One Kendall Square Block Party in
Cambridge’s Kendall Square. This celebration of the summer season brought together those
who live, work and play in Kendall Square for an evening of delicious food and drinks sold by
One Kendall Square restaurants Bon Me, Belly Wine Bar, State Park, The Blue Room, BeanTowne,
Friendly Toast, Mamaleh’s Deli, Smoke Shop, Cambridge Brewing Company and Flat Top
Johnny’s; live music from Duppy Conquerors, The Soggy Po Boys and DJ Ryan Brown; and all
sorts of fun activities, from lawn games to a prize wheel (pictured, bottom right).
The evening—hosted by the Kendall Square Association and kindly sponsored by our good friends
at DivcoWest—served as a fundraiser for CASPAR. Staff were on hand to share information about
the important services we provide, and guests gave generously to the cause, donating more than
$1,000 to support our Emergency Shelter and other programs.
And, coming up on July 12, CASPAR will be one of five non-profit alcohol and drug prevention
and treatment programs benefiting from the popular annual culinary event, the Taste of
Cambridge. Foodies from far and near will come to Central Square to sample delicious, creative,
healthy and award-winning food and drink from more than 100 local restaurants and local
specialty butcher, cheese, honey, wine, beer, specialty drinks and coffee purveyors.
General admission to the event is $50; VIP tickets are $75. So, if you want to support CASPAR’s
good work in just about the most delicious way possible, purchase your tickets for this year’s
Taste of Cambridge at www.tasteofcambridge.com!
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The 2016 Bay Cove Marathon Team
Goes the Distance for Those We Serve!
The 120th Boston Marathon was run on April 18, 2016, and Bay Cove was there! The
seven members of Team Bay Cove—Leanne Bragdon, Layla Chadha, Courtney Howard,
Jim Laprade, Joey Naylor, Todd Sells and Bill Sprague—all ran the full 26.2 miles from
Hopkinton to Boston, and were cheered on in their efforts by Bay Cove staff and
supporters. It was a beautiful day for a race, the runners did a fantastic job and raised
$93,000 to benefit Bay Cove programs.
Our deepest admiration and gratitude goes out, as always, to the runners for their
amazing efforts and steadfast dedication to Bay Cove, and we also thank all those
supporters who helped them on their way—whether through a financial donation,
attending one of our special rallies and events during the last few months, or providing
encouragement along the marathon route. Together, we’re all part of Team Bay Cove!
(Above) Team Bay Cove 2016: (back row) Bill Sprague, Layla Chadha, Courtney
Howard, Todd Sells (front row) Joey Naylor, Leanne Bragdon, Jim Laprade; (top
right) Joey, Jim and Layla at the starting line in Hopkinton; (middle right) Bay Cove
supporters, including Hilary Croach and Ed Barrett, lined the Marathon route to cheer
on Team Bay Cove; (bottom right) Leanne and Todd, tired but happy, after finishing
the race.
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Bay Cove Wish List
Often, one very simple item can make a real
difference in someone’s life. Would you or someone
you know be able to donate new (or, in some cases,
gently used) items like:
New socks, underwear and jeans for men and women // An iPad for a person with developmental disabilities // Business apparel for a job interview // Disposable razors and shaving cream,
travel-sized deodorant, toothpaste and toothbrushes, shampoo, soap, combs // Arts and crafts
supplies for Occupational Therapy and Art Therapy programs //
If you’re able to help, please contact the Bay Cove Development Department at 617-619-5930, and
thank you!
Improving the quality of
the lives of individuals and
their families who face the
challenges of developmental
disabilities, aging, mental
illness, and drug and alcohol
addiction. We will accomplish this
mission by providing effective
and compassionate services
and through advocacy and
leadership.
MISSION
Seniors connect with friends, receive nutritious
meals and engage in social activities at Kit
Clark Senior Services’ Madden Senior Center in
Dorchester.
Publication Manager: Josh Wardrop
Telephone: 617.371.3047
E-mail: [email protected]
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