V o l um e 3 , I s s ue 2 Le g U p Fa r m M a r c h - A pr i l 2 0 1 4 T H E L E G U P L OW D OW N H A P P Y B I R T H DAY L E G U P F A R M INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Happy Birthday 1 Spring Has Sprung 1 Events 1 Summer Camp 2 OT Month! 2 Get Involved 2 WHAT’S HAPPENING AT LEG UP FARM Earl David Reed @ Pullo Center Friday, April 11 730pm Earl David Reed and special guest, country singer, Kayla Kroh will perform at the Pullo Center. Tickets are on sale now and a portion of the proceeds benefit Leg Up Farm. Spring Clean Up Day Saturday, April 26 9am-1pm We are looking for volunteers to lend a helping hand to spruce up the grounds at Leg Up Farm. Some of the projects may include cleaning, gardening, and barn work so expect to get a little dirty! Please RSVP by April 20, 2013 to Jessica Warns at [email protected]. Alarm at the Farm Saturday, June 7 12pm Leg Up Farm’s disability awareness walk and resource fair is back! Families are encouraged to gather a team and stand united with other families at Leg Up Farm to sound the alarm for disability awareness. This is also a fundraising event that will help support services at Leg Up Farm. For more information, please contact Tom O’Connor at [email protected]. April 2014 will mark Leg Up Farm’s 4th birthday! We opened our doors in 2010 with a staff of 18 people, a small group of clients, and a limited number of programs and services. Now, thanks to hard work, dedication, and commitment Leg Up Farm has grown in many ways. A staff of 41 now help our families, making sure your experience at Leg Up Farm is nothing but the best. We have served more than 1,000 children, added programs, services, buildings, and outdoor spaces, all to provide a unique, one-of-a-kind, facility. We are very proud of the progress we have made as a facility and the progress we have seen our children make over the last 4 years. We want to hear from you and share in the development of your child. If you have a great experience at Leg Up Farm, let us know! Share picDid tures of your child enjoying the grounds, e-mail us your success stories. We would love to share those stories with the organizations, businesses, and individuals who support Leg Up Farm SPRING HAS SPRUNG(W Spring has arrived at Leg Up Farm and after a LOOOONG winter, everyone is ready to see green grass and flowers blooming. This is a great time of year to make sure your kids get outside and move! Leg Up Farm families, volunteers, and staff are encouraged to use our beautiful Rainbow Gardens including the walking trail, barrier-free playground, music garden, and more. Don’t forget about the hiking trails! They are a great way to explore nature and get some exercise. If you are interested in holding your child’s birthday party or family event at Leg Up April 10-12 Old Main at York Expo Center someone say party? through donations and help make all of this possible! You can e-mail Tom O’Connor at [email protected] to share your story! E HOPE! ) Speaking of moving, Leg Up Farm will host the Leg Up Farm 5k Mud Run on Saturday April 12th at 9am. For those interested in participating, the event is open to runners and walkers. You can register online at http:// usroadrunning.com/ index.php?club_id=1837. Farm, be sure to grab a rental form and reserve your date. The pavilion calendar is filling up and now is the time to lock in your date. Your rental includes use of the pavilion, Rainbow Gardens, and the outdoor restrooms. Ask the front desk for a form or for more information! May 17 at HACC Harrisburg All registered runners will receive a sportpak bag so make sure to sign up! April 5 at Heritage Hills 1 T he L e g U p L o w d o w n S U M M E R C A M P R E G I S T R AT I O N N OW O P E N We are now accepting registrations for our 2014 Summer Camps. Camp Journey is a four week camp held from 9am-2pm each day for kids ages 6-18. Cost for this camp Is $350 per week. Camp will be held the weeks of: June 16-June 20 June 23-June 27 July 7-July 11 July 14-July 18 Camp Liberty will run July 21stJuly 25th and is a life skills camp for older children ages 1621. Cost is $200. New this year is Camp Might Tykes! This is for younger campers ages 3-5 and is held July 21July 25. Cost is $200. Equine Summer Camps are also available this year. These 6 week camps include Siblings Camp ($300-cost includes 2 children) on Tuesdays from 9am-11am, Job Skills Training Camp ($250) on Wednesdays from 830am-1030am and Horsemanship Camp ($250) on Thursdays from 10am-12pm. **All camps exclude the week of July 4th. If you are interested in signing your child up for summer camp, please ask the front desk for a registration form. We can help coordinate payments through the county if applicable. Scholarships are available. O C C U PAT I O N A L T H E R A P Y M O N T H April is National Occupational Therapy Month and we are celebrating our occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants at Leg Up Farm! Every day, they dedicate themselves to helping our children live their lives to the fullest. According to the American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc., “occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants help people across the lifespan participate in the things they want and need to do through the therapeutic use of everyday activities (occupations).” For most children, their primary occupation is play. For this reason, our OTs have a lot of equipment and tools that allow them to work on improving the child’s skills through play. Their developmental needs may include sensory processing, fine-motor function and handwriting skills, ocular-motor performance, visualperceptual function, self help and feeding skills, and cognitive development. These are Leg Up Farm’s wonderful occupational therapists: Susan Danner, Melissa Maley, Danielle Ramus, Danielle Seibert, and Laura Cunningham, and Sarah Terry. Our amazing certified occupational therapy assistants are: Tracy Kimball and Ashley Perigo. The next time you see one of them, please show your appreciation for what they are doing to help our children. Thank you, occupational therapists, for your hard work! Volunteers are essential to the success of Leg Up Farm. In 2013, we provided more than 20,000 therapy appointments and volunteers played an important role. Whether you want to volunteer in the barn to assist in therapeutic riding lessons, or help the therapists as a therapy aide, we have a position and a need. Consider giving your time while your child is in therapy to pull weeds or help maintain one of our beautiful gardens. If your church, company, or organization would like to support Leg Up Farm, please contact Jessica Warns at [email protected] for information. In January, Leg Up Farm became the home of the first Equestrian Team for Special Olympics in York County. Over the last few weeks, we have been lucky enough to see these athletes learn about the program, and develop their skills as they train to compete in local and state- wide competitions. As we begin our next training session, we are hosting an Open G E T I N VO LV E D The Spring is a great time to get involved at Leg Up Farm. Whether you can come out to one of our events, pitch in at our clean up day, or weed the flower beds, we are always looking for people to help. One way you can give back is to pick up an item from our wish list. The wish list has a variety of items we need for daily activities, summer camp, equine services, and more. You can look at our wish list by visiting smile.amazon.com and looking up Leg Up Farm. There you can find our wish list and any item you buy through the Amazon Smile page, they will donate 0.5% back to Leg Up Farm. Some items from the wish list include: Fragrance Free Baby Wipes Rainbow Colored Tissue Paper Play-Doh Lunge Lines House for new volunteers on March 29th from 10am-12pm at Leg Up Farm. Interested volunteers will help athletes learn to compete. No experience is necessary and we will train you! Thank you for your generosity and for making Leg Up Farm a true community. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”— Helen Keller 2
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