Champions for Children and We Are ALL Better Together Campaign
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Challenge Match Update
With our focus on inclusion, Sewall invests in strategies that require out-of-the box thinking and rearrangement of significant resources in an early childhood setting while building teaming and collaboration with staff and families. Sewall is fortunate to have many longstanding supporters like the Sewall Board and committee members that support this focus.
This year, members of Sewall’s board would like to engage the community with a matching gift challenge to support our inclusion mission! If 100 members of the community make a gift on or before 4/30/2021, the Board and committee members have generously offered to contribute $30,000. A gift of any size will count and unlock $30,000 to support inclusive services for the children and families that Sewall serves. Of the 100 donors needed to meet the challenge, 20 donors have given. If you and 79 others make a gift today, you will help us achieve the match and unlock $30,000. Please click the “Give Now” button below or text “Sewall” to 50155 to make your gift today!
Did you know that research indicates every $1 invested in early childhood education returns $13 in savings to society down the road? (Education Commission of the States, 2017)
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April is the Month of the Young Child and this week of April 11 – 16 is the 50th Anniversary of the national Week of the Young Child. During this time, we celebrate the critical importance of early learning, young children, their teachers and therapists, families and communities. Sewall would like to celebrate people like you who support our mission and the caring and skilled early childhood educators and therapists who make our mission come to life in our classrooms.
In honor of autism awareness day (which was 4/2), we would like to share this poem written by sibling of a child with autism who is now a freshman in high school. Both children attended Sewall in their preschool years,
Poem by Sewall Alumna
In honor of autism awareness day (which was 4/2), we would like to share this poem written by sibling of a child with autism who is now a freshman in high school. Both children attended Sewall in their preschool years,
Autism
Autism, my brother,
A person near and dear like my mother.
He has autism,
A disorder that needs more activism.
People stare,
People don’t care.
If they’d look a little deeper,
They’d see he’s not a creeper.
Autism won’t be accepted until people want to accept.
It’ll take a bit.
But I believe
That we can succeed because we’ve
Tried so hard to achieve
A goal that’ll make people less naïve.
Anonymous (age 13, 7th grade, Sewall alumna)
Sewall Board’s Magical Read Along Program
Staying connected with you, and everyone in our community, is a priority. Undoubtedly, that has been hard given the current restrictions on large gatherings and social distancing mandates. In an effort to connect with children and families, members of Sewall’s Board of Directors’ and Program Committee are creating a virtual library of read aloud video stories to share.
We are delighted to offer a fun new program online: Sewall Magical Read Aloud. Sewall friends who are board members and committee members share their favorite stories. Each Monday, we will feature a favorite book read for you by a member of the Board or Program Committee. Lynn Stambaugh (Board Member) reads Right Now, I Am Kind, written by Dr. Daniela Owen. Click the image above or here to watch.
VIEW LIBRARY OF VIRTUAL READ ALOUD STORIES
Judith Heumann — Friday, 4/30
Pre-program Slide Show at 11:50 AM | Program: 12 to 1 PM
Author • International Leader in the Disability Community • One of Time’s Magazine’s “100 Women of the Year”
Judith (Judy) Heumann is a lifelong advocate for the rights of people with disabilities and is an internationally recognized leader in the disability rights community. She has served as an Advisor for the U.S. State Department, The World Bank’s first Advisor on Disability and Development, and was a Ford Foundation Senior Fellow where she helped advance inclusion in the Foundation’s work.
Judy is featured in Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution and 2020 American award-winning documentary film that is available on Netflix. She is the co-author of Being Heumann “Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist.”
Ian Watlington, a previous Sewall speaker on many occasions, is a Denver native and nationally acclaimed advocate now living in Washington, DC. He is an advocate, policy wonk, fighter, thinker and changer, and we are fortunate to have him as moderator. Together they will discuss Judy’s journey with exclusion and inclusion and address several issues pertinent to education and parenting.
Our Mission
Sewall is committed to providing inclusive, joyful learning environments that use the power of partnerships, diversity and belonging to enrich the social and academic growth of every child and family.
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Supporters of Sewall who reside in Colorado and file Colorado state taxes qualify for a 50{3636cb0a451a12ed88382a3e0ed28b2223ede70e167d2b3efd87582f6f12e3da} state income tax credit in addition to the regular state and federal income tax deductions. All cash gifts qualify for the Colorado Child Care Contribution Credit (CCCC).