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Saturday, June 14, 2025

It’s time to get ready for Day of Action, United Way’s amazing program where volunteers around the globe help improve their local communities.

This year, we have 5 different projects to help other local non-profits. Click HERE to sign up. This year’s projects are for the Food Bank of Nevada County, FREED Center for Independent Living, Hospitality House, Sundance Horse Rescue and Sanctuary, and North San Juan Community Center.

If you have special skills associated with the project you are interested in (builder, painter, etc.) please let us know in the comment section when you sign up. Please note that you do not need special skills to sign up.

Taking care of our mental health is important at every stage of life.

• Early and middle childhood (birth-11 years old): Mental health in childhood includes reaching developmental and emotional milestones and learning healthy social skills and how to cope when there are problems. Children who experience good mental health have a positive quality of life and can function well at home, in school, socially, and in their communities.
• Adolescence (12-17 years old): Adolescence is a unique and formative time when many health behaviors and habits are established and carry over into adult years. Adolescence is also a time of important developmental changes. Physical, emotional, and social challenges, including exposure to poverty or violence, can make adolescents vulnerable to mental health problems.
• Young adulthood (18-26 years old): Early adulthood can come with major transitions such as entering college and the workforce, securing housing, or starting a family. Positive mental health and well-being in young adulthood can help young people meet these transitional changes successfully.
• Middle adulthood (27-64 years old): In middle adulthood, adults may face life stressors related to jobs, parenting, caregiving, and relationships.
• Older adulthood (65+ years old): As people age, they may experience life changes that impact their mental health, such as retirement, coping with a serious illness, or losing a loved one. Some may experience feelings of grief, social isolation, or loneliness.

To learn about risk factors and protective factors, click HERE.

You are invited to something special that is happening on May 12 at Del Oro theater. Please feel free to circulate this with your team as we are working to spread the word throughout the community about this event.

Please join in for an inspiring evening centered on healing, connection, and the strength of the human spirit. We’ll be screening What Lies Inside: Healing in the face of trauma, a visually stunning and deeply personal film about trauma—and the resilience that can grow when we support each other with presence and care. Click here to watch the trailer on YouTube.

 

 

 

The Friendship Club will celebrate the graduates in our after-school program and their respective high schools during the 24^th annual Graduation and Scholarship Dinner on May 21, 6 p.m. at the Center for the Arts in Grass Valley.

Please join us to celebrate the accomplishments, commitment and hard work of these young women. This annual event is always filled with many emotions, memories and laughter.

Please visit our website for more information about the event and how you can support The Friendship Club and help girls and young women in our community succeed and thrive. 

The Friendship Club encourages connection, the value of shared experiences, the joy in skill-building and the pleasure of fun – hard to find in a fast-paced world.

The soon-to-be graduates have faced many challenges and overcome numerous obstacles during the past several years. But thanks to The Friendship Club, our caring staff and a network of mentors, they are well-prepared for the path ahead, whether it’s attending college, learning a vocation or entering the full-time workforce.

The Friendship Club, a program of Bright Futures for Youth, has helped pave the way for a stronger foundation – and hopefully future – for these graduates and several hundred others.

The Friendship Club has helped empower and educate girls and young women since 1995, for 30 years, meeting the ever-changing and increasing needs of girls and young women in our community.

Please attend the 24^th annual Graduation and Scholarship Dinner to celebrate our graduates and support them – experience firsthand how we are making the next generation the best generation.

Click here for more information 

April is National Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Month – while you are out and about in Nevada County you may notice our town painted in blue with Pinwheels for Prevention gardens along with blue flags and banners throughout our community. The Pinwheels for Prevention gardens in Nevada County are to honor children and youth who have endured abuse and neglect in Nevada County along with honoring all children and youth and preventing child abuse and neglect in our community.

What are Child Abuse and Neglect?

Child abuse and neglect includes all types of abuse and neglect of a child under the age of 18 by a parent, caregiver, or another person in a custodial role (e.g., a religious leader, a coach, or a teacher) or any person that results in harm, the potential for harm, or threat of harm to a child.

There are four common types of abuse and neglect:

• Physical abuse is the intentional use of physical force that can result in physical injury. Examples include hitting, kicking, shaking, or other shows of force against a child.
• Sexual abuse refers to any completed or attempted sexual acts or sexual contact with a child by a caregiver. Examples include fondling, penetration, and exposing a child to other sexual activities. Read more information about child sexual abuse.
• Emotional abuse refers to behaviors that harm a child’s self-worth or emotional well-being. Examples include name-calling, shaming, rejecting, and withholding love.
• Neglect is the failure to meet a child’s basic physical and emotional needs. These needs include housing, food, clothing, education, access to medical care, and having feelings validated and appropriately responded to.

To learn more about child abuse and neglect information and prevention click here.