Don't Forget - Comedy Night on Friday!

Remember, Improv Comedy Night Fundraiser THIS Friday September 24 at 8 pm.

We'll be at the TSC Auditorium (USU Student Center) watching Out of the Blue Entertainment do hilarious skits and games with suggestions from the audience. We're also pleased to have live music before and during the show intermission by Clay Summers.

What does all this awesomeness cost? Tickets are $5 or $3 with student ID and for every extra $1 donated, you can get an extra entry into our PRIZE DRAWING!!!!

So tell your friends and come!

New Fundraiser Scheduled

Since we had bad weather on the day of the mini golf tournament, we had to reschedule and think of something we could do inside.

On September 24 at 8 pm we will have a Comedy Night with hilarious improv provided by Out of the Blue Entertainment. The show will be held on the USU campus in the Taggart Student Center Auditorium. The cost is $5, but with student ID it's $3. Foster families will get a special discount if they ask for it at the ticket table.

We will also be holding a prize drawing with the fantastic prizes donated for the mini golf tournament. For every dollar donated over the admission price, you'll receive an extra entry for the drawing.

The prizes include:

$25 to El Toro Viejo

Personal Pizza coupons from Pier 49

Bowl set from Kitchen Kneads

Genuine Gold Nugget from Gem, Rock & Bead Store

... And many more great prizes!

Free parking is available in the parking terrace and in front of the University Inn as long as you leave after 9pm (the show should go until 10). The comedy is family friendly, but kids under 12 may not "get" all the jokes.

Tell your friends, neighbors and even people you might not like very much to come and have a good laugh while supporting the FCRC!

Mini Golf Tournament

Today was supposed to be the Mini Golf Tournament, but unfortunately due to HIGH winds and a Severe Thunderstorm warning, we had to pack up at 2:00 and go home. :(

A back up fundraiser is in the works and we want to thank all our sponsors for their prize donations - they will most certainly be handed out!!!

More information as we get it :)

Upcoming drive

August 21 will be the last on site drive for the month of August. We'll be set up in Logan outside Ross Dress for Less(1475 North Main) as well as Down East Outfitters(1050 North Main). If you've got clothes or other items to donate, you can bring them to us between the hours of 10:30 am and 2:30 pm.

It's also a great opportunity if you're finishing your back to school shopping to pick up an extra shirt, pair of pants, socks or whatever to donate to the foster kids of Cache Valley.

We'll also be accepting donations at our Miniature Golf Tournament on August 28th, so don't miss your chance to participate!

Foster Care Resource Center on the Radio

On August 11 Jen Llewellyn, coordinator of the FCRC sat down with Jennie Christensen of Cross Talk on 610 KVNU to discuss more about foster care and the upcoming drive events and miniature golf tournament.

If you missed it, here's where you can listen to the interview. It's under the heading "8/10 Crosstalk: Foster Parens, Blair Nelson, Jan Llewellyn" and there are two listed. The first link is broken, so use the second.

Enjoy!

Tee Time!

For the upcoming Foster Care Resource Center Mini Golf Tournament, we'd like to encourage teams of 4 to sign up ahead of the tournament. This will guarantee your group will play at a specific time and keep traffic at the course flowing smooth. Teams can be friends, families, co-workers, double dates or whatever four-some you can round up.

It will be $5 per person to play, but if you sign up ahead of time, get %10 off and your team plays for $18 instead. To register send an email to cachefcrc@hotmail.com!

At the tournament we'll also have food and drink available with proceeds also benefitting the FCRC. So sign up and come spend a fun day with us!

Available Tee Times:

10:15 am 10:30 am

10:45 am

11:00 am 11:15 am

11:30 am 11:45 am

12:00 pm 12:15 pm

12:30 pm 12:45 pm

1:00pm 1:15 pm

1:30 pm 1:45 pm

2:00 pm 2:15 pm

2:30 pm 2:45 pm

3:00 pm 3:15 pm

3:30 pm 3:45 pm

4:00 pm 4:15 pm

4:30 pm 4:45 pm

5:00 pm 5:15 pm

5:30 pm 5:45 pm

6:00 pm 6:15 pm

6:30 pm 6: 45 pm

7:00 pm 7:15 pm

7:30 pm 7:45 pm

8:00 pm 8:15 pm

8:30 pm 8:45 pm

9:00 pm

Mini Golf Tournament & Fund Raiser

The finale to all the FCRC events in the month of August will be a Miniature Golf Tournament August 28th at the Renegade Sports Complex located at 1903 South 800 West in Logan (formerly the Celebration Center) 10 am to 9 pm. This tournament is designed to generate funds for the FCRC and to be a drive site for clothing and furniture donations.

We'd like to encourage people to sign up for tee times ahead of the tournament to keep course traffic flowing smoothly. A list of tee times will be posted soon!

Cost to participate is $5 per person and teams of 4 who pre-register by noon August 27th will be $18.

We'll also have food and drink available for purchase with a percentage of proceeds going to the FCRC.

Prizes will be awarded for best score of the day, best golf outfit, and for holes in one - which will be awarded every hour.

So tell your friends and family to plan on attending and supporting the Cache Foster Care Resource Center.

**The mini golf tournament is being coordinated by AmeriCorps*VISTA members through the Center of the School of the future.

Foster Care Resource Center Drive

Throughout the month of August, a clothing and resources drive will be held at several business locations in Logan. While you're out shopping for the new school year with your own children, take a moment and consider the many Cache Valley children in foster care who are needing the same things.

We looking for new & gently used:
Clothing: Kids aged 3 – 12 years, especially stuff for boys
Furniture: Dressers, twin bed frames & mattresses, toddler beds, high chairs, baby swings etc
Baby items: Diapers, wipes, formula, baby food, binkies, burb rags, bottles
Bedding: sheets, pillows, quilts
Toys, books & games
Bikes

Drives will be held 10:30 am to 4 pm on:

August 13 & 14 at Old Navy & Kohl's
August 21 at Ross Dress for Less

Donation boxes will also be available throughout the month at the customer service desks of the drive sites as well as at Macey's, Lee's Marketplace in Logan, and the Logan Library.

Foster Care & the Foster Care Resource Center

To understand the resource center, you first need to understand more about what foster care is all about. The primary goal of foster care is to protect children and strengthen families. Parents whose children are in foster care have 12 to 18 months from the time of their child’s removal to remedy their problems. During this time, the intent is to return children to the care of their biological parents. Foster parents play a key role in supporting and mentoring the birth family.

Many foster, adoptive and kinship families feel most comfortable with families who are similar to their own—families who can provide friendship, support, ideas and information about caring for their children. Without help, finding other foster/adoptive families to turn to for help can be a daunting and sometimes impossible task.

This is where the FCRC comes in. The Utah Foster Care Foundation (UFCF), the Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS), Utah Foster/Adoptive Family Association (UFAFA) and the adoption community work together to provide Cluster support groups to help foster/adoptive families find other families like their own.

A Cluster is a support group of approximately 15-50 foster, adoptive or kinship families (couples or singles) who organize to support the care giving experience. Each Cluster is facilitated by a foster/adoptive parent, who helps to organize the topic, location and other details each month.

Clusters provide foster/adoptive families with an avenue for emotional and social support, opportunities to earn In-service training hours, receive care-giving advice and assistance from other foster/adoptive families and access additional resources and information.

The Cache Foster Care Resource Center provides clothing, furniture and other assistance to cluster families as foster children go to and from their homes. As the ages and needs of incoming foster children will vary, what the foster families have on hand may or may not be what is required. The foster families can come to the resource center and pick up any items that the foster children need at any given time.

If you'd like to learn more about becoming a foster parent, please visit http://www.utahfostercare.org/