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A Late Mother’s Day Salute

Posted by: cacjc / May 12, 2020 / Tags: Coronavirus, Covid19, Mommy Tribe, Mother's Day, Mother's Day 2020, Pandemic

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County I am late with my Mother’s Day blog posting this year. It seems that along with all of you, it is taking me longer to get things done because my brain is filled with all things COVID-19. I actually think a

Tips for making it through Covid-19 concerns while your children are at home

Posted by: cacjc / Mar 26, 2020

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County The Coronavirus has become a pandemic crisis impacting every aspect of our lives. Parents are being forced into the role of educator as our children are pushed into a home-schooling situation. To add to that stress, many of us do not know

Art and the Mother’s Touch

Posted by: cacjc / Jul 14, 2015 / Tags: A mother's touch, art workshops, Building Bridges, creative therapies, Michelle Wilson, touch

By Michelle Wilson, Development Director for The Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County In honor of what would be my mom’s birthday this month, I am sharing a post I wrote three years ago on healing and the mother’s touch. This could have been written now, with the references to the stories shared at this

Summer Vacations, Kids, and Creativity

Posted by: cacjc / Jun 16, 2015 / Tags: creative activities, creativity, healing activities, limit screen time, quiet time, summer vacation, technology free

By Michelle Wilson When school gets out for summer, families often find themselves needing to plan for children being home for a few months. When I was growing up, I spent most summers at home with my mom doing her usual activities and with my siblings, one younger and four older. We only had a

Celebrating Kids, Culture and Art

Posted by: cacjc / May 20, 2015 / Tags: art by kids, art contest, Brad Russell, Celebrating Cultures of Our World, children's art, Craterian Center at the Collier Center for Performing Arts, Eric Strahl, Jackson County Cultural Coalition, Jamie Hutchinson, Jim Collier, Kathy Mustard, Mustard Press, teen art

By Michelle Wilson, Development Director, The Children’s Advocacy Center This spring we invited all of the children and teens in Jackson County to help us decorate our walls. We held an art contest and invited submissions of art that fit the theme “Celebrating Cultures of Our World.” We received 102 beautiful pieces of art. Each

April ~ A Month to Honor Children

Posted by: cacjc / Apr 13, 2015 / Tags: Child abuse, Child Abuse Prevention Month, Denise Levertov, Jackson County Oregon, Medford Oregon, National Poetry Month, Poetry, wisdom of poetry, young children

By Michelle Wilson April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. It is a month to honor children everywhere, those who have been harmed and those we hope to protect. It is also National Poetry Month. For this blog, I want to share a poem by a woman I had the great fortune to meet and hear

Planting Seeds and Watching Them Grow

Posted by: cacjc / Jan 21, 2015 / Tags: garden vegetables, growing seeds, quality family time, Valentines Day

By Michelle Wilson, Development Director of The Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County Soon after Valentine’s Day, right after all of the red and white bows and hearts start to come off of the shelves, little signs of the coming of spring start to poke their heads out around us. Stores start selling packets of

Creative “madness” leads the way out of suffering

Posted by: cacjc / Sep 17, 2014 / Tags: Art Journeys, creativity and madness, Healing from painful things, Robin Williams

“You are only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it” Robin Williams By Michelle Wilson Madness. That is one powerful word. It brings to my mind images of people with bright twinkles in their eyes and infectious smiles that make you want to know what is happening in their thoughts. Madness

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