Bullying and Suicide Prevention
Bullying and Suicide Prevention
Happy December Kindness Day! In the spirit of giving and bringing HOPE and JOY to others, The Community Kindness Movement is excited to announce that they were selected to receive a generous grant award of $3,000, from the Children’s Charities of Idaho Fund, the Miles and Virginia Willard Fund, the Unrestricted Eastern Region Fund, and the grant has been approved and funded by the Idaho Community Foundation. The grant will support the Community Kindness Movement effort in funding schools that have applied for our program through our CKM website. The Idaho Community Foundation grant and other local businesses have made it possible to support 1,122 more students with our “Kindness Begins With Me Program”. The grant funds will purchase yellow Kindness T-Shirts for the students to wear during Kindness Week, throughout the school year on Thursdays, and each monthly Kindness Day.
LAKE RIDGE ELEMENTARY KINDNESS ASSEMBLY
Melissa Nelson, the CKM President commented, “we are very appreciative that the Idaho Community Foundation selected to support the Community Kindness Movement. We are excited to officially announce the schools that will be receiving the grant assistance, Hillsdale Elementary and Park Ridge Elementary. Both schools are excited about empowering a foundation of kindness in their entire student body and faculty with the help of our annual Bullying Prevention/Kindness Program. The Community Kindness Movement will be celebrating a Kindness Week in the first of next year, January 23rd-27th. We invite all schools to join us!
PARK RIDGE ELEMENTARY
Shiloh Kenya, Park Ridge PTA President added, “Park Ridge Elementary PTA originally heard about the Community Kindness Movement last spring at the State PTA convention. We were very impressed with the Founder of the CKM, Melissa Nelson when she shared her personal story and how the CKM evolved. We decided as a PTA, that it was a program that we would love to implement in our school. We are planning on working with our school counselor and the CKM team to build a foundation of kindness in our school. We want to thank our contributing sponsors: Idaho Community Foundation, House of Design, Carlie Seamons Real Estate, Kenyon Enterprises, Park Ridge School, Park Ridge Elementary PTA, and the CKM for making this possible for Park Ridge Elementary.
HILLSDALE ELEMENTARY
Principal Bair and School Counselor, Mrs. Elder, at Hillsdale Elementary, expressed their appreciation for the Community Kindness Movement in selecting their school for the Idaho Community Foundation grant. They are excited about celebrating their second Kindness Week for the 2016-2017 school year, in January. The yellow Kindness T-Shirts will contribute an important learning visual tool and helpful reminder to the Hillsdale students and faculty. Hillsdale Elementary looks forward to the CKM partnership and shared vision of enriching the lives of their students.
About ICF:
The Idaho Community Foundation is a statewide public nonprofit organization whose goal is to have a permanent endowment of charitable dollars that will serve Idaho forever. ICD manages charitable funds on behalf of organizations, families, individuals and businesses. A gift of any size to an ICF fund helps increase the size and number of grants and scholarships awarded to local nonprofits and students.
About the CKM:
The Community Kindness Movement provides an Annual Bullying Prevention Program and provided an implementation for schools through the State of Idaho. The CKM has been a partner with the Idaho PTA Organization and others to encourage community, business owners, and parents to get involved in the building a safer learning environment for our children. For more information about the Community Kindness Movement, please visit www.CommunityKindnessMovement.com or email at CommunityKindnessMovement@gmail.com.
The CKM would like to announce that they will be helping fund the following schools with the 2016 Kindness T-Shirt, for the 2016-2017 school year. We offer CKM Scholarships to the schools that are continuing our Kindness Begins with Me! Program. In order to apply for scholarships funds, we asked that your school fill out our application on our website at the end of last year. We will try out best to offer this each year.
CONGRATULATIONS TO:
PLEASE PRINT – KINDNESS BEGINS WITH ME 2016-17 Planning Packet – CLICK HERE
A WARM WELCOME to the new schools implementing our program in the Boise and Nampa area and appreciate their PTA Organizations in helping fund their schools with Kindness T-Shirts this year! SO AWESOME!
For all schools that would like to start or continue our program, we are here to help! We have sponsor fundraising packets available on our website or you can send out the Kindness T-Shirts Order Forms to your parents. Feel free to contact Melissa at CommunityKindnessMovement@gmail.com if you have questions. The Kindness T-Shirt Order Forms are available in our 2016-2017 Planning Packet above.
If your school is joining us for KINDNESS WEEK in September, the Kindness T-Shirt Order Forms need to be finished by Monday, August 29th.
ALL SCHOOLS are invited to celebrate Kindness Week with us, which is September 19th-25th. If a better week works for your school, please feel free to use a different date. In our Planning Packet, we do have a Parent Flyer available this year to send home to the parents to help introduce Kindness Week and the Kindness T-Shirts to your parents. If you school needs different dates put on the flyer, please contact us. We hope to have a general flyer up soon where you can fill in the dates as needed.
Join us this Saturday, July 30th, for a KINDNESS NIGHT with our winning Gate City Gray’s Baseball Team!
Games start at 5:30pm and 7:30pm
Admission is $5 per Adult. Kids under 8 are free with a parent.
Wear your Kindness T-Shirts and come out and enjoy a fundraising night to help fund Kindness T-Shirts for our local students!
NEW 2016-17 KINDNESS T-SHIRTS and HATS will be available to order, a drawing for PRIZES, and MORE!
Bring your family and friends and enjoy a fun night in spreading KINDNESS at the ballpark!
April’s Kindness Day is Thursday, April 21st, 2016
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April Kindness Theme
“SMILE – PASS IT ON”!
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The SMILE theme goes along well with the City of Pocatello, the Smile Capital. The Smile Ordinance was passed by Mayor George Phillips, in 1948. The Smile Ordnance made it illegal not to SMILE in Pocatello. To continue on this kind gesture tradition, Kindness Day will be “Smile Day”! Join the universal language of the smile by smiling and making others smile!
A recent scientific study reported than an anonymous 28-year-old person walked into a clinic and donated a kidney. It set off a “pay it forward” type ripple effect where the spouses or other family members of recipients of a kidney donated one of theirs to someone else in need. The “domino effect,” as it was called in the New England Journal of Medicine report, spanned the length and breadth of the United States of America, where 10 people received a new kidney as a consequence of that anonymous donor.
School Kindness Day SMILE Planning Ideas
This is a mini kindness video to help celebrate SMILE Day. Please share with your teachers.
They can show this video the first 5 minutes of class on their smart boards.
SCHOOL KINDNESS DAY IDEA:
You will need (6) Yellow Poster Boards. Spell out “S – M – I – L – E” on the first (5) boards. On the (6th) board write “It’s Kindness Day!”. We made (2) sets for our school and having students hold them, wearing their Kindness T-shirts. They will display these as students and faculty arrive for school. You can also do this at the end of the school day. For this Kindness Day task, your School Principal can select students who have shown examples in being “world changers” or “kindness leaders” in your school. Have a wonderful Kindness Day and remember to remind your students to wear their Yellow Kindness T-Shirts or Yellow, but most importantly, their SMILE!
WE HAVE A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT COMING NEXT WEEK!
March Kindness Day shares the holiday with St. Patrick’s Day – Thursday, March 17th, 2016
MARCH THEME: “Make Someone Feel Special”
MARCH KINDNESS DAY School Activity:
“Make Someone Feel Special” is what it’s all about this month!
Your school can use our idea provided below or come up with your own. The sky is the limit! We want to remind all the Principals about the feedback emails that we sent out. This monthly Kindness Day Newsletter does get distributed to ALL of your PTA Presidents in the Pocatello and Chubbuck School District. The schools outside the District can provide us the email of the individual implementing the CKM in your school and we can add them to our email list. You can contact Melissa at CommunityKindnessMovement@gmail.com.
Thank you, may you all have a successful and happy Kindness Day!
Thank you to all the great individuals in our community that showed their Kindness! We appreciate all of our sponsors and supporters of the Community Kindness Movement. Because of each of you, we were able to make a difference in the lives of thousands of our children in our community. Bullying is real, it happens every day! Because of you, we are giving them the tools needed to build a safer and better learning environment.
Announcements:
We are excited to be heading to our first Boise School this month and to introduce to the Idaho Legislature as we partner with the Idaho PTA. We would like to announce our 2016 fundraising efforts and are looking for sponsors that want to help us raise $33K, for 14,000 of your school students. We offer advertising on the back of the Kindness T-shirts.
NEW Committee Members:
We are also look�ng for more Committee Members to serve on our CKM Committee for the 2016 calendar year. All talents are welcome! We are looking for individuals that desire to spread Kindness and to serve our community. We believe everyone has talents to contribute. Just caring can make a huge difference! Website and Social Media NEW Look to our Website and Nominate (1) Individual or (1) Student for the Kindness Award each month. Kindness Day is every 3rd Thursday of the month! www.CommunityKindnessMovement.com
Join us on our Community Kindness Movement FB page.
Email us at:
Contact us at CommunityKindnessMovement@gmail.com
It’s fun to capture the moments as Kindness spreads throughout our Pocatello and Chubbuck Community. Putting together all the pictures of that week, I loved seeing the kids faces. I can tell you that experiencing it was awesome, an experience I will forever treasure and never forget! I could feel and see the excitement all over the kids faces. The Kindness assemblies were alot of fun and I know without a doubt that everyone that was given a Kindness T-shirts and was influenced by the Kindness message. All those 6000+ students brought home the message to each home in our community. That was a huge opportunity to spread the awareness on the simple, yet powerful answer to Bullying Prevention.
I know that Kindness is a core behavior that should and must be taught in all of our homes. Having empathy and serving others, is a vital part of our everyday happiness. I knew what I started this, that was a very important message that I wanted to portray. It’s not about perfection, it’s about considering the moments when we step out of our comfort zone to help a friend, comfort a neighbor, stand up for a friend being mistreated, it’s giving our spouse hug right when they get home, it’s saying prayers for people that mistreat us, it’s forgiving, Kindness is just so many things. I worked really hard with my Committee in making this happen for all our kids. I had to prove that it was a necessity. I had to raise ALOT of money all on my own. It wasn’t easy, it was HARD, it was humbling, but I got to work and I did it! In the end, it was truly an AMAZING experience, all the opposition was worth it. For anything that is worth doing, it takes hard work and for any GREAT thing, there is always opposition. We just have to be willing to climb that mountain or make it move, so we can experience greatness.
In any community there are obstacles, politics, differences, but we can conquer through those issues when Kindness is considered. Thank you to all the KIND individuals in our community that hopes for a better and safer learning environment for all our kids. May the climb in the future be not so hard, may be continue to put the best interest of our next generation, first.
To help, join our Committee. Contact me at MrsPocatello@gmail.com
The Community Kindness Movement funds Pocatello Community Charter School, the 16th Elementary School in our community, with the yellow “Kindness begin with ME!” t-shirts. The PCCS Adminstration and PCCS Parents helped fund 125 t-shirts, while Melissa Nelson, Mrs. Pocatello 2015 and the Community Kindness Movement Committee funded 230 t-shirts for the rest of the school. Thank you, to the community for supporting the “Buy 1, Give 1” fundraising efforts!
SPONSORS:
PCCS Parents/Administration
Community Kindness Movement / Melissa Nelson – Mrs. Pocatello 2015
New Day Products and Resources
Idaho Region 5 PTA
