NSMC - Family Rounds - Speaking Gig

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." William James

North Shore Medical Center North Shore Children's Hospital Educational Series in Collaboration with Mass General Hospital.

Family Rounds - A monthly series for parents and professionals

On Thursday April 16, 2009 between 12:00 noon and 1:30 PM I will be speaking at North Shore Medical Center Children's Hospital in the Lynch Conference Room during the Family Rounds Session. I am sharing my personal story as a former Little Wanderer of the Home for Little Wanderers. http://www.thehome.org/

The title is : Breaking the Cylce - A Former "Little Wanderer" shares her story"
Sherri Rafery, M. Ed. 2008 Home for Little Wanderers Honoree.

Here is a copy of the flyer that is being sent out to members in the community.
http://nsmc.partners.org/cmsLibrary/documents/FRCFlyer_WinterSpring09.pdf

I am excited to have the opportunity to share my story with members and parents in the medical community. I will post how it goes!

Family Resource Center
The Family Resource Center serves children, adolescents, families and professionals. We provide a range of resources through our Behavioral Health Library. Marguerite Roberts, MS, NP, organizes and runs conferences, workshops and family support programs, and is on hand to assist you with your research needs.

Lectures are free and held from 12:00 noon - 1:30 on the third Thursday of the month at North Shore Children;s Hospital, Lynch Conference Room, 57 Highland Ave, Salem, MA

Registration is required E-mail Marguerite Roberts, MS, NP mrobers2@partners.org
978-354-2660

http://www.nsmcfamilyresourcecenter.org/


Behavioral Health Library
M T W Th 10 – 12 for groups or by appointment & 12 - 4 walk-in
978.354.2660 978.354.3777 (FAX)


MassGeneral Hospital for Children is a pediatric specialty hospital offering the full range of care from well-child visits to advanced treatments and clinical trials for the most complex conditions.

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Gibbs College Speaking Gig!

GIBBS COLLEGE SPEAKING GIG AGAIN!!

" Join Toastmasters. Oral Communication skills count" Tom Peters


A Professor, Cheryl Dorsey, from Katherine Gibbs College on Boylston Street in Boston, MASS http://www.gibbsboston.edu/ who teaches Interpersonal Communications called me and asked me (as a Toastmaster) to come into her class on Wednesday November 28, 2007. I would be there for an hour and emphasize the relevance of public speaking and communication skills to her students. http://www.toastmasters.org/

Their assignment is to prepare a presentation in front of the class. Of course as the District 31 Lt. Governor of Marketing I agreed as a way of plugging Toastmasters in the hope that they will begin a CLUB there!! http://www.district31.org/ I asked my friend and fellow Toastmaster/Edge Member, Mary Cheyne who is from my District 31 (WON second place in our District 31 Humor Contest) if she would like to join me.

Mary spoke for 20 minutes and I spoke for 20 minutes and then we would opened up to the class for 10 minutes of Q & A and Comments. We passed out a clip board for a contact list, as well as our own evaluation feedback sheets, we videoed our session and asked for testimonials.

Tonight I received a call from Cheryl again inviting Mary and I back to speak to another class of students on Monday March 3, 2008! The time our topic be on "Group Presentations".

We will still discuss Toastmasters, bring magazines, brochures and ask for people to join toastmasters as well as plug forming a Gibbs Toastmasters Club AGAIN!

Of course we still plan to video our presentation, send around our clip board, use our own evaluation forms and although we are still waiting on our last testimonial - we trust that we will now have two written testimonials from Professor Cheryl!


Want to learn more about Toastmasters?? http://www.toastmasters.org/

Contact me at sraftery01@northshore.edu

WHAT IS TOASTMASTERS?

This non-profit organization offers a proven – and enjoyable – way to practice communication and leadership skills. Members evaluate one another's presentations. This feedback process is a key part of the program's success. Meeting participants also give impromptu talks on assigned topics, conduct meetings, serve as officers in various leadership roles and learn rules related to timing, grammar and parliamentary procedure. Thousands of corporations sponsor in-house Toastmasters clubs. Businesses and government organizations have discovered that Toastmasters is an effective, cost-efficient means of meeting their communication training needs. Toastmasters groups can also be found in governmental agencies, a variety of community organizations, prisons, universities, hospitals, military bases and churches.

Speaking on the Orphan Trains!

There are times when being an orphan is not so bad,

at least you don't have family worries! Emma Symms

An invite to speak at the 2008 Nebraska Orphan Train Celebration - Fremont, NE

WOW - Ok let me bring you back a few steps (or should I say Stops). In my previous post I mentioned I am being honored by THE HOME for Little Wanderers - Boston MA - on Wednesday May 28, 2008. http://www.thehome.org/site/PageServer?pagename=events_voices_visions

Last year while I was listening to the Toastmasters http://www.toastmasters.org/

2001 “World Champion of Public Speaking” (WCPS), Darren LaCroix's, http://www.humor411.com/ "Get Paid to Speak Next Week" audio CD in my car…my mouth suddenly opened when Darren mentioned a woman named Charlotte Endorf endorf@cableone.net who wrote a book - PLAINS BOUND FRAGILE CARGO - about the Orphan Trains.

THE HOME http://www.thehome.org/ is part of the Orphan Trains Movement too. Children who were orphaned from the civil war were taken in, taught how to sing and put on trains heading out west to be adopted by loving families!

http://www.outskirtspress.com/plainsbound

I knew I had to connect with Charlotte and we emailed briefly in Aug 2007. The other day I sent Charlotte an email letting her know about my honoree news. I also asked Charlotte for help and pointers about writing my book THE LITTLE WANDERERS HOME - my personal journey as a Little Wanderer.

Charlotte sent me info about her publishing company http://outskirtspress.com/ as well as pointers and THEN at the very end of her email she invited me to speak as a special guest about "THE HOME" during the 2008 Nebraska Orphan Train Celebration on April 26 & 27 2008 that her family is co-sponsoring in Nebraska during actual train ride.

{For more information - Endorf Enterprises at 402-371-3701 endorf@cableone.net }

And how PRICELESS IS THIS BOUNUS! - Charolett is giving me two signed copies of her book as well as her new DVD which includes 40 or more stories of the 8,500 miles she has traveled getting their stories - as a thank you for agreeing to be a guest speaker! http://www.outskirtspress.com/plainsbound

I am taking my 10-year-old daughter Sabrina with me. We are Fragile Cargo...Heading West...Plains Bound...Boarding the Orphan Trains!

Friends this is a turning point for me in such a short amount of time – I am being honored by an agency that I respect so much and I also get to speak during a celebration from a movement I believe in so much! As well as meeting people who cared enough to keep this piece of history alive!!

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FACT -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan

An orphan (from the Greek ορφανός) is a person (typically a child), who has lost both parents, often through death. One legal definition used in the USA is someone bereft through "death or disappearance of, abandonment or desertion by, or separation or loss from, both parents".[1] Common usage limits the term to children, (or the young of animals) who have lost both parents. On this basis half-orphans are those with one surviving parent.

In certain animal species where the father typically abandons the mother and child at or prior to birth, the child will be called an orphan when the mother dies regardless of the condition of the father.

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More links about orphan trains

http://www.42explore2.com/orphan.htm

http://www.thehome.org/site/DocServer?docID=161

http://www.thehome.org/site/DocServer?docID=161

http://www.saidwhatmovies.com/moviequote/there_are_times_when_being_an_5344

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/203-0104480-4845525?ie=UTF8&keywords=Orphan%20Train&tag=saidwhat-21&index=blended&link%5Fcode=qs

http://www.brainyquote.com/words/or/orphan196936.html