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Parental permission will be obtained. Please be JEWELRY To learn more about becoming an expert advised that all communication regarding Jocelyn Klastow contributor contact Marybeth Cale at (845) Kids’ Classifieds will be directed through a Zimmer Brothers Jewelers 845.454.6360 750-3763 or [email protected]. parent or guardian. www.zimmerbrothers.com LIVING | JULY 2017 3 FEATURE STORY steps as they need until they can do it with less support.” The Loving Family of the Astor Home Families for Astor And, beyond the 200 dedicated members of the staff, our community has become an extension of the family at Astor. “Families for Astor,” By Marybeth Cale Sonia Barnes-Moorhead, Executive Vice President formed in 2016 by local mom Kate Kortbus, of the Children’s Foundation of Astor, added, “Our gives “caring individuals who have an interest children are like any other children; they simply in children’s mental and behavioral health and want to be loved and to feel safe. They have education the opportunity to develop leadership French novelist George Sand said, “there experienced trauma in their young lives, and are skills in a philanthropic environment, and to is only one happiness in life: to love and be with us to begin to heal.” advance their talents through challenging loved.” The quote often popped up for me during volunteer assignments,” says Samantha Lowe, eye-opening shifts at Astor Services for Children According to Sonia, the children primarily Senior Program Manager, Public Relations & & Families in my college years, when I saw come from the New York City area, Long Island, Development at The Children’s Foundation of incredible staff share love with children who most and further north. “Our goal is to try to get our Astor. Volunteers who belong to the group help needed to receive it. While most of us pass the children back into a community setting as soon generate funds and interest in Astor’s programs, beautiful property on a daily basis, few realize that as possible.” Sometimes that takes months, and also educate children about charity and the the group of staff, volunteers, and children inside sometimes a couple of years. importance of giving back. those doors have navigated complex emotions and worked through difficult experiences to create Measuring Success Astor provides top-notch services for their a loving family. Says Dr. Kathy Mills, Psy.D., Clinical Director, “when children. However, there are 44 children who we think of success, we think of the child who is reside in four units of a building constructed in What is Astor? able to return to a community setting, whether 1960 which needs serious renovation. Thanks Astor Services for Children & Families is a non- that is their home, an adoptive family, or a foster in part to Families for Astor, a mini-renovation profit organization which provides children’s home. However, success is much more than that project recently transformed one unit into mental health services, child welfare services, and is very individualized. It can range from a child a magical, joyful sanctuary for some of our and early childhood development programs making eye contact and having a conversation community’s most vulnerable children. The to children with behavioral and emotional with his family to a child returning home and initiative, which was the brainchild of beloved health problems, children at risk of foster never having to be hospitalized again. Each child’s local humanitarians, celebrities, and part-owners care placement, and families who need help situation is unique and their family’s definition of Samuel’s Sweet Shop, Hilarie Burton and developing the skills necessary to raise their of success is very personal. What people should Jeffrey Dean Morgan, not only brought the rooms children in challenging environments. Through know about mental illness is that it is not “fixed” of the Paulist Unit to life, but reinvigorated the its prevention, early childhood, special education, after a stay in a residential program. Like any other spirits of its residents. The kids received a clear community behavioral health, and residential illness, the results of treatment vary. Having one message which will undoubtedly resonate in their treatment programs, Astor serves thousands of type of treatment might not ‘fix’ it. People can go hearts forever: there is tremendous goodness in children annually. into remission and the illness is managed with this world, and they are loved. ‘check-ups,’ the illness can occur again and different Here in Rhinebeck, 64 children reside full-time treatment may be needed, or the symptoms Hilarie developed the uplifting designs for and 15 day students attend school, and the are controlled with proper treatment. However, the entire unit, creating a cohesive, outdoorsy feeling that they are one big family is evident during the residential treatment, the child and woodlands theme complete with inspirational from the moment you walk in the doors. But, family learn how to cope with the symptoms of the quotes stenciled onto the walls, shelving for the like family life for everyone, it is not always easy. mental illness and how to access resources in their most prized possessions of each child, custom- These children have, in many cases, experienced community to support their family.” made blankets for each resident, an upgraded heartbreaking events that could strip them living room with a welcoming mural and fireplace of innocence and steal their sense of wonder.