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The Family Center at Willowood is Now Open!

The Family Center at Willowood has been completed! We are so thankful to all of the donors, contractors, designers, and Woods’ staff members who helped this dream become a reality!

 

This year-long project was in response to interest expressed by Woods’ families to create a space on campus for families who come to visit their loved ones. We decided to renovate the former Willowood Lodge, transforming the old cafeteria from what was a summer camp lodge, into three new meeting rooms as well as a kitchen and a dining room where birthdays, holidays, or other special occasions can be celebrated.

 

 

The Family Center at Willowood is open to all Woods’ families and can be reserved for day visits. We encourage families to visit and want to help them make the most of their time here. If you wish to reserve a room in the Family Center, please call Angela Perkins at 215-750-4273 or email her at angela.perkins@woods.org.

 

 

In addition, Woods has contracts with two local hotels for special pricing for overnight rooms. In each case, please mention Woods in order to receive the special rate.

 

HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS, LANGHORNE

$93 per night + tax

215-757-4500

 

SHERATON BUCKS COUNTY

$109 per night + tax

215-269-3408

Social Innovations Journal Launch Event

CREATING A SOCIAL INNOVATION’S MOVEMENT
WITHIN HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
THE BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA STORY

 

PLEASE NOTE: This event is sold out.

The Social Innovations Journal in partnership with Bucks County Human Services, Woods Services, Magellan Healthcare,  and Independence Blue Cross Foundation is pleased to host this SYMPOSIUM on Tuesday, Sept. 26 that will examine successful and innovative models and partnerships within the Bucks County, PA Region as an example of how health and human services organizations are innovating across the country. This edition specifically explores new innovative models of care for:

 

  • Aging Populations
  • Mental and Behavioral Health
  • Children and Youth
  • Drug and Alcohol
  • Physical and Developmental Disabilities

 

“Health and human serving system leaders are discarding the old ways of doing business in favor of new approaches that are innovative, efficient, effective, and responsive to the needs and demands of a dynamic and rapidly changing society. We are shifting from a reactive and crisis-oriented services delivery model to one that focuses “upstream” and better enables all of us to live to our full potential and to more effectively identify and address root causes when we do encounter roadblocks along the way.” (American Public Health and Human Services Association, November 2016)

 

Health and human services agencies along with their nonprofit and community partners in counties around the country have started to approach traditional long standing societal challenges differently. They are capitalizing on public/private partnerships; breakthrough technologies; brokering unique cross-sector partnerships; blending funding sources, and applying family-centered and community-based approaches to find innovative solutions with the expectation that these will lead to efficiencies and better client outcomes. Ultimately, regional health and human services agencies, collectively, are shaping a new ecosystem across sectors and systems that will align services, integrate data systems, leverage technologies and create system transformation.

 

PLEASE JOIN US!  As we have limited space capacity (100 participants) we ask that you only register if you are confident that you will attend.

 

Sincerely,
Nicholas Torres
CEO/Co-Publisher

 

Tine Hansen Turton
President & CEO of Woods Services
Co-Publisher

 

Jonathan Rubin
Human Services Director
Bucks County

 

Agenda

8:30 AM

Registration/Networking Light Refreshments

9:00 AM
WELCOME
Nicholas Torres, SIJ Publisher
Tine Hansen-Turton, CEO, Woods Services and SIJ Publisher
Charles Martin, Chairman, Bucks County Board of Commissioners
Jon Rubin, Human Services Director Bucks County

 

9:15 AM

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Tracy Wareing Evans, President and CEO, the American Public Human Services Association
Current state of Human Services/Human Services Value Curve and the Value of and future for Public-Private partnerships

9:45 AM

CONSUMER VOICE AND PERSPECTIVE

Lessons learned from the consumer perspective:  Bonnie Healey

 

10:00 AM

PARTNERSHIP INNOVATION STORIES

Bucks County:  Connect. Assess. Refer. Engage. Support. (BCARES) program:  Margie Rivera, Associate Director, Bucks County Drug and Alcohol Commission and Eric Stark, Executive Director, Bucks County Health Improvement Partnership

Using the Sequential Intercept Model to build collaboration and support community engagement: Christina Finello, Deputy Director, Bucks County Human Services

Foundations Summer Internship Program: Ron Bernstein, Executive Director, Foundations Community Partnership

 

10:15 AM

CRITICAL THINKING ROUNDTABLES

 

11:00 AM

PANEL REACTION

Moderated by Tine Hansen-Turton, CEO Woods Services

Panelists

Tracy Wareing Evans, President and CEO, American Public Human Services Association
Audrey Tucker, CEO Family Service Association of Bucks County
Dr. Mark Hoffman, Ed.D., Executive Director Bucks County Intermediate Unit
Jon Rubin, Director of Human Services, Bucks County
Heather Major, Independece Blue Cross Foundation

 

11:45 AM

CLOSING REMARKS/NEXT STEPS

Tine Hansen-Turton & Jon Rubin

Woods Receives Grants from Foundations Community Partnership

Langhorne, PA— Woods Services, a non-profit organization serving individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, has received two grants totaling $20,187 from Foundations Community Partnership (FCP) to support training and other initiatives. FCP is a nonprofit foundation formed to improve the quality of life for special needs children, youth and families in Bucks County. Here are the details of the two grants:

 

-Children with disabilities may have experienced trauma in their lives due to sexual and physical abuse or neglect and this can cause them to present inappropriate behaviors. A $10,000 grant will provide training, using a trauma-informed approach, for clinicians and other staff who work with children and youth served by Woods.  Woods plans to partner with the Network of Victim Assistance (NOVA) to implement the trainings, which will improve the capacity of staff to provide the most compassionate and effective treatment to these students. NOVA supports, counsels and empowers victims of sexual assault and other serious crimes in Bucks County and works to prevent and eliminate violence in society through advocacy, training, community education and prevention programs.

 

-$10,187 will support the renovation of a training kitchen for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities.  Located in the Gardner Education Center, the kitchen will provide students with a larger, wheelchair accessible space to support learning and the development of life skills, such as menu planning, prepping and cooking ingredients and making healthy food choices.  These skills will help students successfully transition into life in the community after graduation and gain greater independence.

 

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Woods Services is a 501(c)(3) non-profit multi-service population health management and advocacy organization that provides innovative, comprehensive and integrated health, education, housing, workforce, behavioral health and case management services to more than 4,000 children and adults in the intellectual and developmental disability, child welfare, behavioral and brain trauma public health sectors who have complex and intensive medical and behavioral healthcare needs.

 

Third Annual Run for Woods is Best One Yet!

The sun broke through just in time to see more than 1,100 walkers, runners, and rollers take their mark for the third annual Run for Woods 5K and 1 Mile Fun Walk on Saturday, May 6. In just three short years, the Run for Woods has become one of the largest integrated events in Bucks County and it continues to grow thanks to the support of staff members, sponsors, community members and families of Woods.

 

A dedicated group of more than 100 volunteers helped the day run smoothly by staffing the course as marshals and assisting with rest stops, registration, and lunch. The Fitness Fair featured 10 kiosks including the Independence Blue Cross Van, which offered complimentary health screenings (glucose, blood pressure and body mass Index) and two of Woods’ social enterprises, the Yellow Daffodil Flower and Gift Shop and BeechTree Bath & Body Products.

At the Opening Ceremony, State Representatives Frank Farry and Gene DiGirolamo and State Senator Tommy Tomlinson presented Woods with a resolution from the State of Pennsylvania recognizing the importance of our advocacy efforts, which ensure that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities have a choice in where to work.

John Anthony Jensen spoke from his heart when he recounted the harrowing tale of his brain injury and his life now at Beechwood NeuroRehab, a program of Woods. “This day and age, I look forward to getting up every morning and continuing on with the day before’s endeavors and ultimately, my life. Every day is just a really great day at Woods, especially days like today,” he said. “I know it’s gonna sound like Beechwood’s paying me to say this, but in all honesty, this place is nothing but heaven sent…I look forward to getting up every morning and continuing my life.”

Following the run/walk, participants were treated to a delicious lunch of pork ribs and steak prepared by Outback Steakhouse and pasta and chicken prepared by Carrabba’s Italian Grill. Our local Corner Bakery Café in Newtown also hosted a wonderful dessert tent. Entertainment was provided by a group of Woods residents who presented several songs from their recent Disney Cabaret performance during lunch.
Awards were presented to the Top Individual Fundraiser: Whit Park, a Woods resident who raised more than $7300, the Top Fundraising Team, Team Mikey [Faulkner], which raised $14,425, and the Largest Team, the Woodlands Warriors, with 58 participants including residents and staff. Awards were also presented to the fastest male and female runners in 10 age categories.

 

 

“For the first time ever, a Woods resident was our most successful fundraiser. Whit Park raised $7300 for Woods Services,” said Hilary Stephens, Vice President of Development. “Whit spent hours on the phone calling friends and family. What a self-advocate! I hope that next year, others will follow his lead.”

 

 

Whit has lived at Woods for nearly 20 years and currently works at The Woods Enterprise (TWE) work center and recently started at the Yellow Daffodil Flower and Gift Shop. He enlisted the help of his parents, Penny and Jerry, and his brother, Ross, to spread the word about the Run for Woods and even he was impressed by the amount of money he was able to raise.

 

 

“I was pretty amazed myself,” Whit said. “I thought it was a great thing to do to raise money and my goal is to beat my total next year.”
Thanks to the generosity of nine Faulkner Ciocca Dealerships that raised a whopping $90,000 for Woods this year, and a record-breaking turnout, a total of $205,000 was raised for Woods Services. Joe Faulkner and Gregg Ciocca were on hand with their families to ensure that Woods reached its goal. Funds raised at the run/walk support services not currently covered or reimbursed by any funding source (including school systems, private insurance, Medicare or Medicaid) like music and art therapy, field trips and tickets to sporting or cultural events in the community or capital improvements to our buildings and grounds.

 

“We had a record 755 donors this year supporting our runners and walkers which is more than we have ever had. And the participation of our new community partners, Outback Steakhouse, Carrabba’s Italian Grill and the Corner Bakery Café has helped us take the Run for Woods to a whole new level.”

Thank you to everyone who helped make the third annual Run for Woods the best one yet!  We look forward to seeing everyone next year!