Teen and Young Adult Valentine Dance

Your teen or young adult should look for their invitation in the mail sometime during the week of 1/18/16.  If we missed someone, please let us know!  They must be age 13 by the date of the party to attend.

Makin’ Music Play Date

For more information on Makin’ Music, please visit their website at www.MakinMusic.com

RSVP to Christa at [email protected] or Kelsey at [email protected].

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DSIG 26th Annual “Walk for Our Kids”

WOW!  It’s hard to believe that we will be celebrating our 26th year of our annual walk-a-thon!  The date has been set for the 26th Annual DSIG “Walk for Our Kids”!  This event is our major fundraising event for the year and allows us to continue to provide outreach and social activities for our families.  It’s a FUN morning and a great time to meet other families.  We will need people in the group to make contact with any businesses that they know to see if they are willing to become one of our $500 sponsors for the event.  As a $500 sponsor, their company logo will be featured on the back of the event t-shirt.  We will also need items for baskets from businesses, baskets donated by businesses and DSIG families & friends, and raffle and silent auction items.  The letter for donations is ready now, so if you have a business contact and need a letter, please send me an e-mail at [email protected] and I will get one out to them. This event takes a lot of planning and volunteers will be needed (sign up to volunteer), so I’ll let you all know in the near future where help is needed.  Any questions about this event, just give me a shout!

When: Saturday, April 2, 2016, 8-10am
Where: Springfield Mall

Join us for a night of true stories about some of our first friends and enemies: our siblings. Storytellers from the “A Fierce Kind of Love” storytelling workshops will take to the stage with their true tales about how disability affects families. You’re invited to throw your name into the hat, and share your own story about a brother or sister too!

For full details, visit http://www.temple.edu/instituteondisabilities/voices/afkol/sibslam.html

We are looking forward to a FUN night that will include, bowling, shoe rental, pizza, drinks, snacks and most importantly, good times with good friends!

DSIG will pay for your child with Down syndrome, and if siblings or friends would like to attend, they may do so by paying a discounted price of $10.00 per person. The $10.00 will be collected at the door the day of the event. Please respond by the date requested with the number of guests that will be attending as we will be unable to add you on after that date!  We need to give the guest count to Sproul Lanes ahead of time since we are reserving lanes!

In order to participate in this event, you must be a current paid DSIG member before the day of the event. If you are unsure if you have paid your dues for 2016, just ask and we will let you know. If you need to pay your dues, please send a check made payable to: DSIG, P.O. Box 5066, Springfield, PA 19064

Hope to see you there!

SAVE THE DATE*

DSIG Annual Holiday Party

*Please note: This event is being held on a Wednesday again

Our Guest Speakers are Diane Perry, DSIG Member/Parent and PEAL Eastern Region Parent Advisor; and Nora Connell, DCIU Liaison for the Delaware County Parent Advisory Council of Local Task Force.  They will be speaking on the topic of “Working Collaboratively with your School Team”.

When:  Thursday, 2/23/17
Time:    Doors open at 7pm, meeting begins at 7:30pm
Where: Hancock United Methodist Church
            Route 320 (Sproul Road) just off the  
            intersection of Route 420, Springfield, PA

Please click on the link below for a copy of the flyer that they have prepared especially for this meeting:

https://gallery.mailchimp.com/b248b2c4b5fcb2f5924466caf/files/dcb1d1a9-6085-4937-8d40-8625dd48ba53/LTF_PEAL_FLYER_2_2017.pdf

Please join the DSIG Birth – 5 Group for a family gathering…

Date:  Sunday, 3/5/17
Time:  10am – 1pm
Where:  Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
             1600 Rockland Road
             Wilmington, DE  19803
             Classrooms 1 & 2 – 3rd Floor (Go in the new section and take the elevator to the 3rd floor)

RSVP by 2/25/17 to Christa Ventura, either through the Facebook group or e-mail her at [email protected], with the number of children and adults that will be attending.

Topic TBD

When:   Saturday, 4/1/17
Time:    10:30 am hayride to Bunny Land (Please plan to arrive 15-30 minutes early so that you do not miss the hayride)
Where:  Linvilla Orchards

There will be a hayride to Bunny Land followed by an egg hunt and light snacks.  Please note, there is no rain date for this event.

Please RSVP by 3/25/17 to Joanne Bannister at [email protected].  Please RSVP Responsibly and on time as we cannot accept late RSVP’s. 

We hope you can join us!