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July 2015
"Thank you [Edgewood] for uncovering who I am." Quote from an Edgewood Community School youth during Achievement Day.
Friday, July 17, was a special kind of morning at Edgewood’s San Francisco campus. It wasAchievement Dayand volunteers busily decorated chairs and stairs with blue and yellow ribbons, families and friends huddled together outside with flowers and teddy bears, and youth went over their performance routines one last time, all in preparation for this year’s ceremony marking the end of the school year for Edgewood's Residential and Non-Public school programs.
As the name suggests, the annual Achievement Day celebrates achievements with every child or youth receiving an award for an exceptional accomplishment, improvement, or personality trait. For one graduate, it was an incredibly emotional and happy time as he reconnected with his family.
The University of
California San Francisco's Department of Psychiatry is among the nation's
foremost resources in the fields of child, adolescent, adult, and
geriatric mental health. While the need for behavioral and mental
health services is increasing, an average of only 350 child psychiatrists
graduate nationally each year.
Edgewood's residency
training program, trains one percent of the child and adolescent psychiatrists
graduating in the U.S. through its partnership with UCSF's acclaimed Division
of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. It's an incredible training program that gives
future psychiatrists the clinical and supervisory skills they need to succeed in the
profession.
Remember when you were a kid and your mom constantly reminded you that proper manners, being polite, and having good social skills would get you far in this world?
Well, according to researchers at Penn. State, who collected and analyzed 20 years of data, mom was right!
While summer is still in full swing, there's no better time like the present to begin preparing for the fall school season!
Recently, more than 90 San Mateo County youth got a head start on their back-to-school wardrobe thanks to a generous donation from My New Red Shoes. Read the story and find out how you can donate much needed new school supplies to Bay Area youth.
We want to give special thanks to the Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation for its generous donation to our Expressive Arts Program. This gift will allow Edgewood youth more opportunities to discover themselves, and experience the community around them.
Studies show that creative and physical activities stimulate the brain, reduce anxieties, and help facilitate a healthier mental state of mind.
Edgewood Center for Children and Families 1801 Vicente Street | San Francisco, CA 94116 | Tel. 415.681.3211 957 Industrial Rd Suite B | San Carlos, CA 94070 | Tel. 650.620.9549 www.edgewood.org