Adult Day Care of Calvert County

Adult Day Care of Calvert County

Event Sponsorship Packet September 22, 2012 at the North East Community Center

About the Event

Forget-Me-Not Fitness Hop Saturday, September 22, 2012 9am to 1pm North East Community Center in Chesapeake Beach

The event boasts up to four hours of fitness fun for everyone from the fitness challenged to the experienced fitness guru. A variety of programs will be offered continuously throughout the event, including fitness workouts such as high and low impact aerobics, Zumba, yoga, and Pilates. The event will also include door prizes, freebies, and more. History of the Event

Last year Nancy Haley created and organized this fundraising event in honor of Noreen Stedman, a participant at Adult Day Care of Calvert County who was one of the first people to bring countywide fitness when she helped start Calvert Fitness in 1982. Before being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s, Noreen was an advocate of fitness and came up with the original idea of a “fitness hop” as a fundraising event for the hospital. The Forget-Me-Not Fitness Hop to benefit Adult Day Care of Calvert County was a huge success in the spring of 2011. When the new director of Adult Day Care of Calvert County came on board in February of 2012, the event was moved to the fall in order to have enough time to prepare for the event. Adult Day Care of Calvert County is grateful that Nancy Haley is happily willing to be involved again this year. The North East Community Center where the event was located last year, was very responsive to scheduling the event again in their facility and has expanded the reserved space. About Adult Day Care of Calvert County

Adult Day Care of Calvert County has been serving our southern Maryland community for over 25 years, offering a structured, therapeutic program designed to enhance the physical, social, and emotional well-being of frail elderly or disabled adults who need some help with their daily living, or have the potential for being alone for a good part of the day. More and more families are caring for seniors with some sort of dementia, including Alzheimer’s and Advanced Dementia, or other physical or mental disability. Adult Day Care of Calvert County provides families with the option of a way to balance the often conflicting demands of caregiving with work or other responsibilities. It also provides the primary caregiver with some respite, while their loved one is cared for by our professional staff.

Located on the lower level of the Health Department building in Prince Frederick, Adult Day Care of Calvert County is the only nonprofit, non-sectarian corporation in Calvert County providing professional medical services, compassionate care and activities to adults with Advanced Dementia.

FORGET-ME-NOT FITNESS HOP A BENEFIT TO SUPPORT Adult Day Care Of Calvert County

SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION

This year we are teaming with Calvert County Parks & Recreation, who will list the event in the CCPR Fall Program Guide! Business Sponsorships:

$2,500.00 FORGET-ME-NOT Premium Sponsor (one of two major sponsors)  Logo of the business on the back of the event shirt (one of two sponsors listed)  A listing in at least two ads in the local papers with business name prominently featured  A listing on any large posters produced to advertise this event  Name on front page (or back page?) of program handed out at the event to all participants  Plus all included in Blue Petal and Remember-Me business sponsors $500.00 BLUE PETAL SPONSOR  Name listed in program handed out at the event to all participants  A spot for a table at the event (business must provide own table, chairs and representative)  Poster sized logo on front wall at the event  Plus all included in Remember-Me business sponsor $100.00 REMEMBER-ME BUSINESS SPONSOR  Name listed in program handed out at the event to all participants  Gym bag with logo of event  An event T-shirt  Participant fee waived DOOR PRIZE DONATION  Name and prize listed in program

Personal Sponsorship:

$100.00 REMEMBER-ME PLEDGE SPONSOR  Gym bag with logo of event  Name listed in program handed out at the event along with name of honoree, if desired  Event T-shirt  Participant fee waived  Extra door prize entry  Plus all included in participant fee $20.00 PARTICIPANT FEE  Door prize entry  Bottle of Water  Program  Opportunity to purchase an event T-shirt (T-shirt included with pre-registration)  Opportunity to purchase bag lunch at the conclusion of the event on the way out the door.* DONATION TO ADULT DAY CARE OF CALVERT COUNTY (unable to attend)  Recognition in program

*Provided this service is available

2011 Forget-Me-Not Fitness Hop in the local media:

The Calvert Recorder Click here to enlarge this photo

Fitness hop raises funds for charity through Submitted photo Abigail Sellner, Rachel Haley and Madeline Sellner made sure sweat equity participants in the Forget-Me-Not Fitness Hop received goodie bags before leaving the Northeast Community Center on March 26. Wednesday, April 13, 2011

By PAT ULLBERG E-Mail This Article | Print This Story Out and about Two women who'd been friends in high school met and reconnected after 15 years when their kids were attending Sunderland Elementary School. They found that their lives had evolved along some parallel paths after high school. Both have a strong commitment to community service.

Nancy Haley, a former fitness trainer and a cancer survivor, is organizing her own nonprofit foundation as a vehicle to raise funds for community health needs.

Angela Walters serves as the president of the board of another nonprofit community organization, Adult Daycare of Calvert County. Like all nonprofit organizations, ADC has a continuing need to raise funds, so Walters is always on the lookout for ways to raise much needed funds for the ADC.

ADC provides a vital community service by providing daycare five days a week for adults 18 years of age to seniors; persons who are physically and mentally incapacitated. ADC gets some public funding through the state, but the care of persons who can't care for themselves is an expensive enterprise, and additional operating funds must be found from a variety of private sources.

In one of Haley's and Walters' encounters — Haley thinks it was a chance meeting in the grocery store — they got to discussing potential fundraising strategies. Haley remembered a benefit for Calvert Memorial Hospital that Calvert Fitness organized in 1987. The Hospital Hop was so successful it became an annual event for the next decade, thanks to the spirit and energy of Noreen Stedman, the founder and owner of Calvert Fitness. Walters and Haley decided to use the same idea as a fundraising event to benefit the ADC.

Together, these old friends put together the Forget-Me-Not Fitness Hop, "taking the ultimate challenge to benefit the ADC." The hop was held on Saturday morning March 26 at the Northeast Community Center. For one small cash donation, anyone could come into the gym for up to four hours of group sessions with seven local fitness trainers. This was an incredible deal, considering that these fitness professionals usually work for considerably larger fees.

The energy crackling through the gym at the Northeast Community Center that Saturday morning could have powered more windmills than even the gale winds that have bedeviled the county for months. From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., the instructors led sessions in their individual exercise and fitness routines, from jazzercise through kick-boxing, pilates, yoga stretches and other even more exotic disciplines.

For those four hours, the center's large gym was filled to capacity with sweating fitness mavens, each of whom had paid the minimum donation of $20. This entitled the donor to stay for the entire morning. A person could stay and go through as many of the sessions as he or she wished, as long as their resolve — and their wind — could hold out. That basic donation also entered the holder into a raffle of donated goods and services.

Calvert Fitness, for many years the only organized and certified fitness group in the county, went out of business several years ago. This was at least partly because its primary owner, Noreen Stedman, became incapacitated by Alzheimer's, and goes to ADC several days a week. Haley was trained as a fitness instructor by Stedman, and she has remained close to the Stedman family. Haley wanted to dedicate this fundraising event to Stedman, who had the original idea of the fitness hop for the hospital benefit.

Organizing this event and making it run smoothly takes lots of work, and this was done by a boatload of volunteer help. Everyone had something to do; the ADC staff and board members, family members, and many friends were attending to all the ongoing tasks. Fifteen former Calvert Fitness trainers were on hand to work out and help out. The younger set was in there pitching, too, including the small fries, who functioned as unofficial greeters.

Haley's whole family was involved, including her kids and her mother, Pearl Haley, who is an alumna of the Calvert Fitness classes. Several local corporate sponsors for the event provided some healthy cash donations, and many other businesses and private parties donated goods or services for the raffle, including T-shirts with the Forget-Me-Not logo.

Many of the people who came to exercise at the hop were either former Calvert Fitness staff, or had worked out at those classes for years, and wanted to honor their former mentor. The average age of these participants appeared to be around 50 years, although some of the more recent fitness disciplines, like Zumba and kickboxing, seemed to attract a younger, unaffiliated participant crowd.

This fundraising event was unique in that it provided an immediate benefit to the donors as well as the beneficiary organization. Usually, donors to some charitable cause only get the immediate good feeling that comes from diverting personal funds to a good cause: by the satisfaction of doing a good deed. This time, the donors got an immediate physical benefit as well — a whole-body aerobic workout to improve their muscle tone and heart health.

The other benefit of this "twofer" event is the much-needed transfusion of funds into the ADC's operating budget. Although the people who use ADC's service pay for daycare, the fees are on a sliding scale, so those with less pay less — sometimes considerably less. Daycare at a facility like the ADC is not a simple operation. Daycare means just that — the unceasing care of persons who are unable to care for themselves.

Care means having enough staff who can not only do the housekeeping tasks, like preparing and serving food and attending to the client's physical wellbeing, but highly trained health care staff to manage the daily programming, and to do the physical or cognitive therapy that many of the center's clients need on a daily basis. Some clients need transportation to and from the facility, so ADC must have well-maintained handicap accessible passenger vans.

Haley is considering making the fitness hop an annual event. For those who are physically sluggish, it's a good way to kickstart a regular personal fitness routine while doing a community good.

For more information about the ADC program, go to www.adcofcalvertcounty.org. [email protected] 2011 Forget-Me-Not Fitness Hop in the local media:

The Calvert Recorder Hop to remember E-Mail This Article | Print This Story Fitness event honors former instructor

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

By MEGHAN RUSSELL Staff writer

Noreen Stedman was one of the first people to bring countywide fitness to Calvert when she helped start Calvert Fitness in 1982. As the program expanded, she eventually became the sole owner, often teaching eight classes a week, mornings and nights, with as many as 40 participants in one class.

Today, the 62-year-old visits the Adult Day Care of Calvert County a few times a week and receives care for Alzheimer's disease, which has rendered her unable to speak. To honor Stedman's legacy of advocating fitness, the first Forget-me-not Fitness Hop will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on March 26 at the Northeast Community Center in Chesapeake Beach, with all proceeds going toward the care center.

"Mrs. Stedman used to teach aerobics classes years ago," said Ed Sullivan, ADC executive director. "Obviously, she's not capable of doing it anymore, but it sort of inspired this event. … Unfortunately, I did not have the privilege of knowing her before the disease took its toll."

But Nancy Haley of Sunderland did. For many years, Stedman threw a fitness hop to raise money for Calvert Memorial Hospital, she said. This time, her former students and co-workers are hosting the fundraiser to help the ADC.

Haley, who is organizing the fitness hop, said she is glad the agency is taking good care of Stedman and was moved to coordinate the fundraiser after she watched an ADC promotional video featuring Stedman and her husband, Scott, with whom she still lives in Dunkirk.

"I just cried and cried," Haley said, and reflected on the years she knew Stedman.

When Calvert Fitness was in need of more instructors in 1993, Haley said Stedman trained her with great patience.

"I had no fitness background," Haley said. "But she never once said, ‘Oh my gosh, you've got a long way to go.' She was so positive."

Haley said she remembers being nervous at her first fitness hop fundraiser for the hospital.

"She actually praised me. Noreen just gave me so much confidence," she said.

During the seven years Haley worked under her, Stedman acted as her mentor, she said, and some other instructors at the upcoming fitness hop also knew her as such, Haley said. "People that were in Noreen's classes were very loyal to Noreen," she said. "She was very giving. Even in her advanced stages [of Alzheimer's], if she hears someone moaning or sees someone hurting [at ADC], she goes and sits with them and holds their hand."

In addition to fitness training, Stedman also served as a Girl Scout troop leader and held her church's weekly Bible study group in her home for many years.

The half-day Forget-me-not Fitness Hop promises to be a great opportunity for both beginners and fitness gurus, Haley said. It will offer a variety of continuous programs throughout the morning, including stretches, high and low impact aerobics, Zumba, jazzercise, glove-up boxing, yoga and pilates, along with demonstrations of kettlebell and Muay Thai kickboxing. New and retro music will play while professionals teach the latest in group fitness.

Instructors who have committed to the event include: certified jazzercise instructor Christina Payne; pilates instructor Barbara Smith; certified Zumba instructor Linda Copeland; certified yoga instructor Niki Robshaw; former professional boxer and glove-up trainer T. Holland; certified fitness trainer and Muay Thai kickboxing instructor Aimee Reynolds; and certified personal trainer and water fitness instructor Val Martin.

Participants can come for an hour, or come for the whole four hours, and door prizes and freebies will be awarded throughout the day. One raffle will be for anyone who stayed for the entire day. If enough people register, Haley said there also will be local food vendors at the event.

"I would love for it to be huge," she said. "It's just a great way to get the community out there and test the waters of something they might not have tried before."

This event is sponsored by Calvert Financial Advisory Inc. Participants can register by March 10 for $15 (or $20 at the door) by sending a check to ADC, P.O. Box 1650, Prince Frederick, MD 20678, or by going online to www.adcofcalvertcounty.org and following the Forget-me-not Fitness Hop link.

Children younger than 10 will not be allowed to attend as no child care will be provided. All youth 10 to 16 participating must be accompanied by an adult 18 or older and must be registered for the event. It is the sole responsibility of the adult to accompany the child during the event. Youth taking a break from the group instruction for any time period must be with their adult sponsor.

Located on the lower level of the county's health department in Prince Frederick, the ADC is the only nonprofit agency in Calvert County offering day services to adults with Alzheimer's disease and dementia as well as other ailments. [email protected]

If you go

The Forget-me-not Fitness Hop will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 26, at the Northeast Community Center in Chesapeake Beach. Preregister for $15 or pay $20 at the door. 2011 Forget-Me-Not Fitness Hop in the local media: 2011 Forget-Me-Not Fitness Hop in the local media: