Forty teams will vie for the Jim & Mary Basford Cup Friday, June 5 at the 27th Annual Buckeye Container-Village Network Golf Classic. This annual event offers a fun day on the Wooster Country Club golf course. Great prizes, great food and a great cause! Check out our website after the event for the 2009 champions, photos and the list of sponsors that make this sell-out event possible. If you missed out on this year’s golf outing contact us and in the comment box write Please send 2010 Golf Classic information!

The actual painting took a little more than two days and was a combination of group and individual efforts but the lasting effects at TVN-Mt. Vernon/Knox County are timeless. Close to 20 boys and girls at the residential facility brought nature and its calming effects inside when they transformed three walls into a “chill-x-ation room.” It is a project inside the art therapy program at the Children’s Resource Center. Read how Liz Hartz, art therapist at CRC, and the youth have plans to continue the project.

Thanks to a donation from The Community Foundation of Mt. Vernon & Knox County all TVN residential facilities now have an Automated External Defibrillator (AED). TVN-Mt. Vernon/Knox County is the latest to receive this life saving device. AEDs are designed for use by laymen. The technique is taught in many first aid, first responder, basic life support and CPR classes.

A recent Martha Holden Jennings Foundation grant purchased two laptops and four digital cameras for use in TVN-Akron’s art therapy program. The new digital art labs offers the boys and girls inside both the residential and day treatment programs another avenue of creativity and self expression. It also provides new job skills and exposure to another career field.

Read more about the grant and watch for updates and artwork from the new art program.

Brooke Winkler, a clinical therapist on the Boys’ Village Campus, is Wayne County Children Services (WCCS) Volunteer of the Year. Brooke has been a volunteer at WCCS for nine years. She was selected to receive the agency’s top honor because of her dedication to the child mentoring program. Brooke is one of many TVN employees who volunteer inside their communities. Read more about Brooke.

Another TVN employee honored this month for his community service is Executive Director Jim Miller. Mr. Miller and his wife Anita served as honorary co-chairs at the 16th annual Child Abuse Prevention Month Community Breakfast presented by The Voices for Children Committee and the WCCS Services Board.