Throughout 2023, an Ergos Institute staff member has provided volunteer support for an excellent organization, Promises2Kids.
This giving season, we ask you to join us in supporting Promises2Kids by donating a toy for the holidays.
Promises2Kids is a leading nonprofit organization founded 40 years ago as the Child Abuse Prevention Foundation of San Diego County. Since 1981, Promises2Kids has responded to the needs of foster children and provided support to children removed from their homes due to abuse and neglect.
Annually they provide over 3,000 current and former foster youth in San Diego County with the tools, opportunities, and guidance they need to address the circumstances that brought them into foster care, overcome the difficulties of their past, and grow into healthy, happy, and successful adults.
They support these children through their four core programs: Polinsky Children’s Center, Camp Connect, Guardian Scholars, and Foster Funds. The Polinsky Children’s Center is a national model for the care and protection of abused children, with individuals as far away as Saudi Arabia traveling to San Diego to learn about the facility.
Promises2Kids is holding its annual Give From Your Heart Holiday Gift Drive! They aim to collect over 15,000 gifts and gift cards this year to support over 3,000 foster children and their families. While many community members are collecting gifts, they still need thousands of toys and gift cards to support our youth.
If you would like to donate, you can purchase through their Amazon Registry. Together, we can make a significant difference in the holiday experience of foster youth, a time when many struggle the most.
A key element in Somatic Experiencing® is working with the body from the BOTTOM UP. We believe this concept is also one way we heal our communities - by supporting our children in need.
The unknown ripple effect of feeling in their hearts like someone cared for them will flow forward in immeasurable ways.
If you are interested in supporting this organization in other ways through donation, mentoring, or volunteering - please click here.
We are so grateful for your support and generosity for Promises2Kids and/or others in need this season and beyond.
Happy Holidays to our beautiful community of healers who work endlessly to help individuals, communities, and countries in great need of trauma healing. And to those on your healing journey - we are very proud of the courage it takes to join us on this path.
Thank you dearly for all that you do for yourself and others.
From our hearts to yours,
Peter, Melissa, and Cortney
Ergos Institute of Somatic Education
(residing in San Diego County)
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