Material Goods-All male clients 7 to 18 years old

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Clothing Needs:

  • Wal-Mart Gift Cards
  • Boys' and men's socks
  • Jeans, especially size 34-inch waist and large sizes 40 to 44
  • Belts (34” and larger)
  • Boys' medium and large t-shirts
  • Boys' and men's pajamas/pajama pants
  • Boxers youth size 10 or larger including men’s sizes
  • Gloves
  • Winter hats
  • Winter coats
  • Shoe strings (extra long because they are often put in high top tennis shoes)

Personal Care Needs:

  • Bed Pillows
  • Fitted twin-size mattress pads
  • Full Sized Bath Towels
  • Shampoo
  • Hair gel
  • Deodorant
  • Antibacterial liquid soap
  • Deodorant soap bars
  • Disposable Razors
  • Shaving cream
  • Brush/combs
  • Laundry soap
  • Band-aids/Triple antibiotic ointment

Epworth Village Learning Center Needs:

  • Markers (for dry erase boards)
  • Markers for student use
  • Lined Paper/Composition notebooks (no spiral)
  • Washable paints
  • Folders
  • Snack food items
  • Bulletin board design materials

Art Equipment Needs:

  • Colored pencils
  • Markers (both permanent and non-permanent)
  • Paint Brushes
  • Chalk
  • Sketch pads

Physical Education Equipment:

  • Basketballs
  • Adjustable height basketball hoop
  • Baseball mitts, left and right-handed
  • Soccer balls
  • Soccer goals
  • Frisbees
  • Frisbee golf targets
  • Softballs
  • Footballs
  • Volleyballs
  • Two volleyball standards
  • Volleyball net
  • Board Games
  • Full size air hockey table
  • Skeeball
  • Flatscreen television/DVD player for rec room

Treasure Box Items

Treasure Box Items are the fun items that are dispersed to clients at the Epworth Village Learning Center and in the Residential Treatment facilities as they move up the “level system.” These items are those special “extras” that make the clients’ time at Epworth more rewarding and fun!
  • gel pens
  • mechanical pencils, (lead for the mechanical pencils)
  • big erasers
  • pencil erasers
  • decorated pencils
  • sugar free candy
  • mints
  • Sports cards
  • Stickers
  • art supplies
  • matchbox cars
  • miniature stuffed animals
  • action figures (no violent or sexually explicit)
  • animal figures
  • little games
  • marker sets
  • colored-pencil sets
  • single-color packets of construction paper
  • note books (no spiral notebooks)
  • journals
  • fast food meal certificates
  • Wal-Mart gift cards
  • craft sets
  • fancy scrap booking paper

The “Great Paper Challenge”

To meet the paper product needs of Epworth Village, Inc. for one month we need:

  • 200 boxes of Kleenex
  • 360 rolls of paper towels
  • 400 rolls of toilet paper
  • 8,500 napkins

To run our agency and school we also need white copy paper and lined notebook paper (no spiral notebooks).

 

Designated Giving Programs

The Epworth Village, Inc. Designated Giving Program is a great way for supporters to help with our array of needs in each department.

Donate online or send a check. Please indicate in the “memo line” of your check which of the following areas you would like your donation to go to:

Therapy Department

Ten Masters Level therapists are employed by the agency. Monies collected for the Therapy Department may go towards:
Donate online or send a check. Please indicate in the “memo line” of your check which of the following areas you would like your donation to go to:

Supplies for "Play Therapy", Library resources for therapeutic techniques, bringing in presentations to enhance therapeutic skills in the areas of Cognitive and Dialectical Behavioral Therapies, Expansion projects to provide adequate space to conduct therapeutic services to children and families

Epworth Village Learning Center

Approximately 25 teachers, para-professionals and support staff serve students at our school. Monies collected for the Education Department may go towards:

New textbooks for students, broader curriculum resources to be used by teachers, art materials, computer technology that will allow students to utilize interactive learning tools and physical education equipment

Residential Facilities

Our Residential Managers and Residential Therapeutic Specialists are dedicated to giving children tools to use to live better lives. Monies collected for our seven, residential facilities may go towards:

Kitchen utensils, art equipment needs, curriculum materials for Life Skills classes, cottage health equipment needs, cottage sports equipment needs or purchasing new appliances such as washers/dryers/stoves

In-Home Safety Services and Foster Care

In-Home Safety Services employees and Foster Parents need support as well. IHSS staff travel all over Nebraska meeting families in need within the home setting. Foster Parents help give families a chance to heal and find hope in their lives. Donations to this area of Epworth may go towards:

Equipment, supplies and resources for staff members and families. Car seats, toys, cribs or other items used by Foster families and/or needed by IHSS families.

 

Checks may be mailed to:

Remember to indicate on the memo line of your check whether you want the donation to go to the: Therapy Department, Epworth Village Learning Center or Residential Facilities.

Epworth Village, Inc.
PO Box 503
York, NE. 68467

For more information on ways to volunteer or become partners with
Epworth Village, Inc. in a variety of ways contact:

Thatcher McBride
Public Relations Coordinator
(402) 362-3353
thatcherm@epworthvillage.org