Posts Tagged ‘awareness’
Join Us for Pizza & Open Play
Join us November 13th from 5:30- 6:30pm for Open Play and Pizza! Students from Upper Iowa University will be hosting a special Open Play for all ages! We hope you can join us for karaoke, Wii, dressing up, playing Uno, the Therapeutic Playcenter, and more on November 13th! Please RSVP to desmoines@gigisplayhouse.org, so we have…
Read MoreThanks to the ISHA and NSSLHA Chapters of St. Ambrose, UNI, & University of Iowa!
In order to celebrate Better Hearing and Speech Month in May, ISHA and NSSLHA collaborated on a fundraiser to support GiGi’s Playhouse! The three NSSLHA chapters in Iowa, St. Ambrose, University of Northern Iowa, and University of Iowa, had a friendly competition to raise money and items for GiGi’s Playhouse. The students at University of Iowa raised $235.09 and 111…
Read MoreParent Orientation Speaker Series: Activities & Programs Around Des Moines
Join us Tuesday May 14th from 6:30pm to 7:30pm at the Playhouse for our monthly Parent Orientation Speaker Series. This month the topic is Activities & Programs Around Des Moines. We will have speakers from Very Special Arts, Best Buddies, Challenger League, Link Associates Leisure program, Miracle League, Special Olympics, and Courage League Sports, so…
Read MoreWant to learn more about the Home and Community Based Services Waiver?
Join us at GiGi’s Playhouse- Des Moines Tuesday, April 9th from 6:30 to 7:30pm. Training Specialist Emily Roth from the Department of Human Services will present an overview of the HCBS waiver including but not limited to: registering and signing up for benefits, guidelines, and the renewal process. We will have volunteers to supervise and…
Read MoreCalling All Volunteers
Want to make a difference in the lives of those with Down syndrome and their families? Awesome! Join us at GiGi’s Playhouse- Des Moines for our volunteer training sessions. We are holding monthly day time training and quarterly night time training. Join us next on, Thursday, April 11th from 11:30 am to 1:00pm or Tuesday,…
Read More3:21 World Down Syndrome Day
Here’s what’s happening for World Down Syndrome Day! Ruby Tuesdays inUrbandale is hosting a Give Back Day! Bring the flyer in & GiGi’s will receive 20%! Social Canvas is hosting a painiting event. $10 of the $35 registration goes to GiGi’s Playhouse Des Moines! Registration is open via the link below, bring…
Read MoreThank You, Thank You, Thank You!
Thank you, thank you, thank you, to everyone who supported the GiGi’s Playhouse 2013 “i have a voice” Gala!!! From the attendees, sponsors, gala committee, board members, volunteers, auction artists, & to those who made donations, we absolutely could not have done it without you! Thank you so much for helping make…
Read MoreRinging in the New Year full of Dreams & Goals
Looking Ahead to 2013 The Board of Directors is excited to begin reaching for the stars for 2013! Plans to makeover the Teen & Adult Area (of course they are willing to share it with the rest of us) are underway! We dream for this area of the Playhouse to be a place where people…
Read MoreDreams & Goals made into Success
2012 Dreams and Goals What a FANTASTIC year that will shortly be behind us, but looking back we can say, “GiGi’s Playhouse Des Moines DID THAT!” We are very THANKFUL that each of you helped us obtain our goals and dreams for the year, without your support we would have difficulty doing so-THANK YOU! The…
Read MoreOur World Turned Right-Side Up
I did not realize our lives were being lived upside down until shortly after my daughter McKenna arrived in 2004. Seven weeks premature, McKenna was a shock to our collective ‘systems’ the day she arrived; unexpected would be a HUGE understatement. For the first couple of months our lives were chaos: a lengthy NNICU (Neo-Natal…
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