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Make-A-Wish® South Dakota & Montana has a volunteer opportunity to create hope, strength, and joy for a child with a critical illness. Are you interested? Create hope, strength, and joy for a child with a critical illness. Become a wish granter! Make-A-Wish South Dakota & Montana needs change agents like you to raise their hand because together with volunteers, we transform lives one wish at a time. Wish kids are waiting all across Montana and South Dakota for their wish granter to be assigned. The volunteer role includes opportunities to meet with the wish child and family members in-person and virtually to help identify the child’s most heartfelt wish and create a magical wish journey for the wish child. Prospective volunteers complete an onboarding process which is initiated by submitting a volunteer application and for the wish granter role has several steps, notably including a criminal background check and attending a three-hour virtual training. Training classes are scheduled on a rolling basis, the next upcoming on April 25 at 5:30pm MT. Contact the Volunteer Engagement Manager Cristina Anderson at canderson@sdmt.wish.org for questions or to begin the onboarding process. New Wish Granter Trainings sign-up https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0A44ACA72DA6FA7-newwish#/ To learn more, contact Cristina Anderson Volunteer Engagement Manager canderson@sdmt.wish.org 605.335.8000
Join us for this fun family event to collect colorful eggs filled with sensory-friendly toys that are set out around the Cedar Palace Medical Center to be easily visible and accessible, including eggs attached to balloons for kids in wheelchairs/walkers and beeping eggs for low vision!
There will be a soft start at 10:30AM just for kids with low vision, sensory or wheelchair accessibility needs and their siblings. 11:00 will be open to all! Email cara@mtbeginnings.com with any questions.
Block Party Flyer Heart Locker 2024
Who - Heart Locker Clients, KPS / EPS / Community Partners.
What - HEART Locker annual Block Party.
When - May 29th 3-5 pm.
Where - Kalispell HEART Locker Parking Lot - 514 E. Washington St., Kalispell.
Why - To connect families with school aged children experiencing homelessness to resources in the community for summer, get up to date addresses, and have a fun time with students experiencing housing insecurity and/or homelessness while raising community awareness about children and youth housing insecurity in the Flathead.
All kids welcome for our Photos with Santa sensory-friendly event at 38 Bruyer Way in Kalispell on Dec. 9th from 12-3pm!  We’ll have a sensory play room, and Santa is so wonderful adjusting to each kid’s needs.  Professional photos of your child's special time with Santa can be easily accessed online and are free of charge with donations welcomed to support Flathead Youth Home.
LOCATION: 38 Bruyer Way, Kalispell