Sunday, May 10, 2020

Video Presentation


The following is a short video sharing what Rising Women is all about and how YOU can help!


For More Information about our mission, organization, and volunteering opportunities, contact Sara Blake, director of Rising Women, at srrisingwomen@gmail.com or 307-#######


About Rising Women

Mission Statement
Helping women rise to their full potential by offering quality care for their children while they attend Rising Women approved meetings. These meetings improve a woman’s mental, emotional, and physical health by allowing them to be able to attend without children.      

We will give single mothers free childcare while they attend:
  •        Doctor Appointment
  •        Court appointment
  •       Lawyer visit
  •        Job interview
  •        Counseling Session
  •        Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting
  •      Jail Visitations
 Vision Statement
Giving all low-income single moms access to private sessions free of child distractions.

Our Story
Women of all socio-economic backgrounds deserve to attend sensitive, private meetings without their children. Kari is a loving, single mother who battles with alcohol addiction. Kari wants to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, without her children, so she can be vulnerable and share her deep struggles. Kari deserves the right to attend therapy, without her children, to talk about her alcoholism and the abuse she endured with her children’s father, without her children present. Without access to private sessions, Kari doesn’t attend meetings and doesn’t go to counseling due to fear, embarrassment, and a need for privacy, which puts her children and her life at risk.

How to Get Involved
Rising Women offers safe, reliable, and affordable childcare for approved essential meetings. Rising Women can drop off their children at our facility and attend their essential meetings child-free. In order to serve Kari and the millions of other low-income single mothers and their children we need volunteers to:
·         Donate Healthy Snacks
·         Donate Diapers and Wipes
·         Help With Office Work
·         Help with Childcare
·         Donate toys and project materials

For more information about volunteering, you can contact Sara Blake at risingwomen@gmail.com 


Rising Women
Annotated Bibliography
                     

Helping women rise to their full potential by offering quality care for their children while they attend Rising Women approved meetings. These meetings improve a woman’s mental, emotional, and physical health by allowing them to be able to attend without children.

This annotated bibliography is for our donors, volunteers, and clients.

Federal Agencies

Office of Head Start
Promoting early childhood education.
      Office of Head Start. (2020). Retrieved February 20, 2020, 
      from https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ohs

State Agencies

Wyoming Department of Family Services
Providing resources and assistance to low income families.
Wyoming Department of Family Services. (2020). Retrieved February 18, 2020, from https://dfs.wyo.gov/

Funding Agencies (prospective)

Climb Wyoming
Providing financial independence for low income single mothers through vocational training.
Restoring Hope for Generations. (2020). Retrieved February 23, 2020, from https://www.climbwyoming.org/

United Way
Opportunities for community growth by offering assistance through “education, income, and health.”
Brady, A. (2020). United Way of Albany County. Retrieved February 23, 2020, from https://unitedwayalbanycounty.org/

YWCA
Social justice work geared towards empowering women.
Eliminating Racism Empowering Women YWCA. (2020). Retrieved February 23, 2020, from https://www.ywca.org/

Scholarly Articles

Empowerment of Women and Mental Health Promotion: A Qualitative Study in Rural Maharashtra, India
Educating the women of Maharashtra, India, of causes of depression and mental health problems.

Kermode, M., Herrman, H., Arole, R., White, J., Premkumar, R., & Patel, V. (2007). Empowerment of women and mental health promotion: a qualitative study in rural Maharashtra, India. BMC public health7, 225. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-7-225

Family Management Practices and Positive Youth Development in Stepfamilies and Single‐Mother Families
Considering activities that promote healthy youth development for children of single mother families.

Beckmeyer, J. J., Su‐Russell, C., & Russell, L. T. (2020). Family management practices and positive youth development in stepfamilies and Single‐Mother families. Family Relations, 69(1), 92-108. doi:10.1111/fare.12412

Mental Health in Young Mothers, Single Mothers and Their Children

The mental and emotional outcomes of being a young or single mother and the effects on their children.
Agnafors, S., Bladh, M., Svedin, C. G., Sydsjö, G., Medicinska fakulteten, Region Östergötland, . . . Kvinnokliniken i Linköping. (2019). Mental health in young mothers, single mothers and their children. BMC Psychiatry, 19(1), 112-112. doi:10.1186/s12888-019-2082-y

The Identity Development of Urban Minority Young Men in Single‐Mother Households
Effects on minority men who are bng raised by single mothers.
Vargas, A. P., Park‐Taylor, J., Harris, A. M., & Ponterotto, J. G. (2016). The identity development of urban minority young men in Single‐Mother households. Journal of Counseling & Development, 94(4), 473-482. doi:10.1002/jcad.12106

Women's mental health promotion: A counseling service for women in crisis
Empowering women by providing access to counseling services.
Markovic-Zigic, D., Vukovic, B., & Milicevic-Kalasic, A. (2011). P03-501 - women's mental health promotion: A counseling service for women in crisis. European Psychiatry, 26, 1671-1671. doi:10.1016/S0924-9338(11)73375-2


Rising Women Baking a Difference with their Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser

Rising Women offers safe, reliable, and affordable childcare for approved essential meetings for low-income single mothers. Doctors appointments, counseling sessions, and meetings with attorneys are just a few examples essential meetings that Rising Women provides childcare for.

Attendees will enjoy light and fluffy buttermilk pancakes made by world-renowned culinary artist, Chef Jacques. To add to the fun, Chef will also be creating his delicious pancakes in fun shapes for children and children at heart.The proceeds from this event will fund art materials and supplies for the creative art curriculum included in the program. A $7 donation includes unlimited pancakes and locally roasted coffee from Laramie’s award-winning H&S Coffee Roasters. Children nine years and younger is a $3 donation. 

Sara Blake, director of Rising Women says, “It was important that this event be able to include our patrons, who are mothers and their children. What better way to include families than pancakes on a Saturday morning at a park?” The park Blake references, will be LaPrele Park, sometimes referred to as Huck Finn Park because of its popular fishing hole, Huck Finn Pond. The event will also have donation boxes for diapers, wipes, and formula for Rising Women’s youngest clients.
For More Information contact Sara Blake, director of Rising Women, at srrisingwomen@gmail.com or 307-#######

When: June 21,2020
Time: 10am-12pm
Where: LaPrele Park
Tickets can be bought ahead via Eventbrite at www.eventbrite.com/risingwomenpancakes