Community Bulletin ~ Announcements, Volunteer, Help, Needs, Parents, Children, Links, Resources, Organizations, Riverhead, Southold, Suffolk, NY

North Fork Southold Riverhead New York U.S.A.

Relay for Life

Our community participates hugely in this major overnight event to raise money for the cure and help victims and their families. To find out more about how you can get involved, talk to someone you know who's doing it or go to the American Cancer Society web site. All the info you need is on the site. Click on links to Relay for Life and search by zip code or town.

Southold

For more info about the Southold Relay for Life, visit the web site or email Southold.Relay@cancer.org.

2009 Relay for Life of Southold Town will take place on Saturday, May 30 through Sunday, May 31 at Jean Cochran Park.

Southold Relay for Life Kickoff Meeting: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 in the Mattituck High School Auditorium.

For more info about Southold Town Relay for Life contact event co-chair Cathy Dries at 298-1123 or email her at SoutholdRelay@aol.com.

Riverhead

For more info about the Riverhead Relay for Life, visit the web site or email Riverhead.Relay@cancer.org.

Spring School Recess Feeding Program
at CAST

Applications are available at Community Action of Southold Town, Inc., for the Spring Recess Feeding Program. This program provides nutritious breakfast and lunch foods to income eligible families with school aged children during the upcoming spring recess. Applications for the program are available in the school offices or at the CAST office located at 311 Front Greenport. Application deadline is Wednesday, April 1, 2009. Food bags will be distributed at CAST on Friday, April 3; Monday, April 6; and Tuesday, April 7, 2009. For more information please call 477-1717.

LaLeche Meetings Schedule 2009

What’s it like at a La Leche League meeting? Mothers and their children sitting in a circle with toys to play with in the center or mothers who are still pregnant that want to learn how to avoid breastfeeding problems. Nutritious foods and beverages to enjoy in between comments. Friendly and helpful accredited La Leche League leaders leading a varied discussion: getting breastfeeding off to a good start, or how to wean, surviving new motherhood, how to adjust to babies new sleeping patterns, how to wear your baby in a sling or anything other concern that a mother brings up.

At every La Leche League meeting you are guaranteed to get accurate information about breastfeeding that fulfills your individual needs as a mother- whether you want to breastfeeding for one day or one year.

Free mother to mother support has been La Leche League's goal for over 50 years.

Meetings are held at the Floyd Memorial Library in Greenport on the third Tuesday of every month at 10:30 AM. For breastfeeding and/or meeting information please call Liz at 477-5914 or email elizabeth@mothermedoula.com.

Dates for 2009 are: January 20; February 17; March 17; April 21; May 19; June 16; July 21; August 18; September 15; October 20; November 17; December 15.

Need Health Insurance?

Community Action in Southold Town (CAST), in conjunction with United Health Care, will be holding open enrollment on Mondays from 10:00am to 4:00pm for Medicaid, Child Health Plus & Family Health Plus government health Insurance programs. For more info call (631) 813-0039 or 477-1717.

Donate Blood

If you can give blood (if you're between 16 and 76 years old and weigh 110 lbs or more, you are eligible), please visit the NY Blood Services web site for blood drive locations. You can also make an appointment at regular locations.

Fresh Air Fund

Would you like to have a great family experience this summer and help a child in need at the same time? The Fresh Air Fund needs families like yours to open their homes and hearts to New York City children. First time visitors are 6- to12-year-olds, and Southold Fresh Air Fund weeks are planned in July and August. When you give a New York City child the gift of summer fun in our beautiful town, your own children will have an experience they'll remember forever. If you would like to learn more, please visit www.freshair.org, or if you are interested inhosting a child, please contact the North Fork chairperson Bridget Rymer at bclark44@optonline.net.

Links

Town of Riverhead, NY

Town of Southold, NY

- PROGRAMS FOR BOYS & GIRLS -

4H Youth Development Program of Cornell Cooperative Extension

Suffolk County Girl Scouts

Boy Scouts of Suffolk County

- FAMILY ASSISTANCE /
SERVICES -

Family Service League
Family Service League is
a not-for-profit, nationally accredited, non-sectarian human service agency. FSL manages one of the largest and most comprehensive networks of care for individuals, children and families across Suffolk County.

Community Action in Southold Town (CAST)
A community-based,
not-for-profit human
service agency
located in Greenport
(631) 477-1510

The Retreat
Free and confidential counseling, education, advocacy, shelter for victims of domestic violence/assault.
Offices in Southold, Riverhead, Southampton,
and East Hampton
24 hour hotline
(631) 329-2200

Head Start Programs

HUGS, Inc.
Five-weekend training seminar on Shelter Island, "Long Island Teen Institute."
288-9505

Peconic Community
Council
East End health
and human services coalition

Community Resource Database of Long Island
Information about health and human services agencies across Long Island.

Equal Opportunity Council of Suffolk, Inc.
Agency with resources for families coping with hardships; branch in Greenport.

- SAFETY -

New York State Sex Offender Registry

Parents for Megans Law

~ VIOLENCE
PREVENTION ~

Council for Unity, Inc.

~ RELATIONAL AGGRESSION ~

Girl Scouts of Nassau County