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PAWS of CNY Expands Service Offering
PAWS of CNY Inc., central New York’s largest non-profit provider of pet assisted wellness services, is expanding its services in Oswego County. In order to meet the growing need of nursing homes, community organizations and schools that it serves, they are working to add teams of certified therapy pets to its program, according to a…
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Things to Do in Boone, North Carolina
Boone Things To Do Boone, North Carolina, is a family-friendly paradise for nature lovers. Prepare for your trip with this curated list of things to do in this beautiful mountain-side adventure land. Grandfather Mountain For thrill-seekers, nature lovers, and adventuresome families, no trip to Boone, North Carolina, is complete without a trip to Grandfather Mountain.…
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Suicide Prevention and Getting Help
Opioid abuse can have detrimental effects on one’s health, interpersonal relationships, and finances. It can also turn deadly, as opioid abuse has a frightening association with suicide. Researchers have found that approximately 90 percent of individuals who commit suicide meet the diagnostic criteria of at least one mental illness. Since mental illness is a common…
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7 Items Not to Pack When You Travel
It’s a moment we’ve all experienced when packing for a trip. You stare at items on the bed and ask yourself, “Do I really need that? Or can I get by without it?” If you’re worried that you’ll be miles away from home and inconvenienced by the absence of an essential item, know that you…
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CST Introduces Reenvisioned Brand
It was 1989 when CST, then Client Server Technology, opened its doors to its customers. That same year Intel introduced the 80486 microprocessor and Apple released the first Macintosh Portable. It would be seven more years before the world would see the first Palm Pilot, eleven years before the first mobile phone would snap a…
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How to Tell if You Have Vertigo
For film noir fans, the word vertigo conjures images from the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name. The movie stars James Stewart as a private investigator who attempts to follow Kim Novak despite suffering from trauma-induced acrophobia (a fear of heights) and vertigo (a false sense of rotational movement). To emphasize the condition…
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Fact Sheet: 12 Recreation Programming Ideas
INTRODUCTION Digital Natives. Highly collaborative. Pragmatic. These are just some characteristics that uniquely define Generation Z (Gen Z), those born between the mid-to-late 1990s and the early 2010s. They have never known a time without the Internet, value diversity and unique contributions, and perhaps most impactfully for you as a parks and recreation leader, they are…
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White paper: The Budget Spending Paradox
Abstract With COVID-19 causing cataclysmic detriments to national and local budgets, municipalities are in an impossible situation. They must adapt to the new realities of a remote workforce and socially distanced citizens by implementing new workflows heavily reliant on the technology they do not have in place today — and do it with less staff…
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Rebranding Sunshine Friends to PAWS of CNY
In 2014, I joined Sunshine Friends, Inc., a pet therapy organization based in Upstate New York. As a volunteer, I brought my chocolate lab, Blue, to hospitals, nursing homes, and schools to offer comfort and companionship to those in need. A year later, when I applied for a position on the Board of Directors, I…
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Why You Shouldn’t Pursue Pet Therapy
Pet therapy has quickly become a recognized form of emotional support in a broad array of settings that have proven benefits for community members of all ages. In 1999, when PAWS of CNY, Inc. was founded (formerly Sunshine Friends, Inc.), a small number of our volunteers brought their dogs and cats to one local hospital…
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AI/ML Security Best Practices
Scenario: Adriana Martinez sits at her desk with her head in her hands. The sun has set in the community of Crescent City, her IT team has all left for the day, and in the quiet of the darkening office, she tries to prioritize her goals for the second half of the year. The city…
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NCGH Supports Unconditional Freedom
No Child Goes Hungry (NCGH) is pleased to donate $2,000 to Free Food Harlem, an initiative of Unconditional Freedom. Free Food Harlem serves restaurant-style meals to those who could use extra love and nourishment — from people without homes to prison residents and officers to those affected by natural disasters and neighbors in the community. Guests…
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Cadet Bladzik: Learning to Achieve and Lead
While adjusting to life away from home took time for Cale, he reached a pivotal moment where he fully embraced life in the brotherhood—and it changed everything.
