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Friday, April 30, 2010

New Members - Daytop Projects

The New Member Committee kicked off the 2009-2010 year in early October with 24 local women joining. In the fall and winter, the group planned two evenings to enrich the lives of the female residents of Daytop, a residential substance abuse treatment program in Mendham. (www.daytop.org)
December Daytop Project - On December 8, 2009, half of the New Members hosted an evening featuring a human bingo game, cookie decorating, making gingerbread houses and decorating photo cards. The Daytop residents enjoyed expressing their creative side, then eating their beautiful and delicious creations. At the end of the evening, the New Members gave each Daytop resident a canvas tote loaded with goodies donated by Johnson & Johnson.
January Daytop Project On January 13, 2010 lots of smiles and laughs were had by the girls at Daytop as well as the JLM New Members which made the evening a huge success. The New Members conducted an ice breaker to learn fun facts about one another and set up three stations of snacks, tote bag decorating and journal/mug decorating. The girls enjoyed munching on chips, cupcakes and cookies – and their favorite, a dreamy chocolate fountain – at the snack station. They were then given their own plain tote bags which they turned into fabulous creations after decorating them with glitter, crystals and sprinkles. The third station provided the girls with inspirational quotes to include in journals given to them and a selection of tea to choose from for mugs they decorated. Throughout the evening the New Members photographed the girls and printed the photos on site so the girls could include the photos in their journals. As the evening drew to a close, the girls received favors including hot chocolate, M&Ms, sunglasses, bath soaps and roses.

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