TWA partners with Common Ground - Next Steps

The Troy Women's Association supported Common Ground's Recovery Conference held in April by collecting gently worn shoes at our general meeting.  These shoes were used by Common Ground clients to create artistic expressions of their journey and 'next steps' in living with mental health disorders.   

Some of the people who designed shoes choose not to take them when they left and we took those shoes to Lansing and displayed them in a day at the state capitol to help eliminate stigma among mental health clients. It has been a powerful experience.

Common Ground will be using a similar therapy at their November 17, 2012 conference and TWA will be collecting more shoes ~ if you have some you'd like to donate as well, let us know.

 

MOMMS update

On Sunday May 6, members Kathi F and Carole P attended the Care Packaging Party sponsored by the Moms of Michigan Military and Supporters (MOMMS) at the Lenox Fire Department in New Haven.


They delivered wish list items generously donated by TWA Members, joined other volunteers to unpack and sort items to be packaged and then helped fill 200 flat-rate boxes which will be mailed out this week.

MOMMS is a support group which sends care packages to deployed members of all branches of the service. These are not just their family members but also names that been entrusted to their care, to send a package “like their own mom would send”. They provide a much needed lift in the Troops morale by sending them a box filled with the message that they have not been forgotten by those back at home in the United States of America.