PCYS Newsletter: January 2015

From the Desk of Janet Fultz, PCYS Executive Director

PCYS presents Troupe d’Jour in My Fatal Valentine by Eileen Moushey, a Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre event at An Evening to Remember, February 7, 2015.

This is what you have been looking for! A unique date night, or just a fun time with family or friends where you get to dress up if you wish, go casual if you prefer, enjoy fabulous food, laugh, help solve the Mystery, sit back and be entertained, bid

on live and silent auction items AND do something good for your community!

Local support is increasingly critical to ensure our services remain available and FREE to our youth, children, families, and communities. I look forward to seeing you there! Sponsorships, Reservations and Donations of auction items are available

now! Please contact us today.

A BIG ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR:

Abundant Life Church ** Academic Services for Student Athletes/ Stillwater Women Aid Group **

Ali Castillo V

Alicia Johnson V

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. **

Anne Hacker **

Arts & Humanities Council V

Ashlyn Steedman V

Bailey Powell V

Boulder Creek Neighborhood **

Cake Crazy **

Cameron Shekarforoosh **

Caryl Talley *

Central Rural Electric Coop **

Chelsea Fortenberry V

Church Women United *

Cimarron Valley Quilt Guild **

Dale Sorrell V

Darrell & Kim Sadler **

David Pitts *

Debbie Aguilar **

Deby Coon **

Elite Repeat *

Eric Back **

Erin Fultz ***

Esther Hutchens **

First Christian Ruth Group **

First Presbyterian Church *, **

Freshmen Action Team V

Furniture Showcase **

Georgia Fruendt **

Golden Kiwanis **

Jailen Heron V

Jillian Phillips **

Jim & Ann Halligan **

Jim and Joann Lunsford *

Jim Anderson **

Jim Horn **

Jim Zeller **

Jimbo & Kimberly Carnley **

John Bode *

K.R. Wisner **

Keith Goodwin *

Lambert Construction Company **

Lauren Gin **

Leadership Stw Class 23 **

Leslie Murray V

Life Church V

Lilana McKindra **

Lindsay Fitzgerald *, **

Lorna Stein **

Mae Badiyan **

Marilyn Stout **

Mary Griswold **

Mulhall & Orlando Lions **

Nancy Kramen **

Nancy Kramer *

Natalie Rohwer **

Nocella Irwin-Smith V

Noelle Baker **

Norman McNickle **

Northern OK College **

Orange Leaf **

Richard Giles **

Robin Anderson **

Ron and Cara Beer *

Ruby Hensley *

RuthAnn Sirbaugh *

Samantha Collier V

Sara Felix V

Savanah Waters **

Shawna Goodwin **

Shelly Jobe **

SHS Student Council **

Small Cakes **

St. Andrews Thrift Shop *

St. Francis Xavier **

Stillwater Public Library **

Sydney F. Reding *

Tianna Carter V UHBC Love in Action Sunday School Class ** UHBC Monday Night Ladies Bible Study **

University Heights *

Vicki Houck & Grandson Nixon **

Yana Shelton **

Donation type notated with

the following symbols:

Financial *

Goods **

Volunteer V

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announced soon!

OSU Service Sorority V

OSU Sigma Phi Lambda V

Peggy McCormick *

Randall and Kathleen Elliott *

OSU Afro-Am Freshman Action Team V

OSU Foundation ** OSU Non-Traditional Student Or-ganization **

Jasmine Bank V

Jasmine Stone **

Jennifer Crosthwait **

Jerry & Nancy Crenshaw *

Please watch for activities and information coming in March as we will celebrate National

Safe Place Week, March 15-21. In Payne County, 2-4 children and youth access Safe Place

each month, giving them an immediate way to stay safe when their home is not a safe place

for them. Want to know about SP or how to become a SP site? Call Angie at PCYS.

Payne County Youth Services

Gives Thanks to the

Community

Payne County Youth Services just completed its fifth annual

Adopt-a-Family Holiday program. PCYS would like to thank all

the donors who responded to our request for assistance with the

Adopt-a-Family Program. “We had some wonderful donors par-

ticipate, with several of our donors having participated each year,“

stated Angie Freeny, PCYS Program Coordinator. Program do-

nors included: individuals; community organizations; OSU organi-

zations and local businesses.

PCYS identified and received permission from numerous families

to connect them with people in the community that had respond-

ed to PCYS requests for assistance. PCYS staff obtained a list of

needed items and wish list items from the families and then gave

this information to the donor. The donor then purchased the gifts

and brought them back to the PCYS office to be given to the re-

cipients. “The families receiving assistance expressed so much

appreciation for the much needed items, “stated Freeny.

We would also like to thank the First Presbyterian Church Giving

Tree program, who has supported PCYS and youth and families

for several years during the holiday season. The program provides

much needed items as well as wish list items for the youth.

PCYS was also fortunate to be a recipient of holiday assistance

through the OSU Nontraditional Student Organization. This holi-

day program provided numerous gift cards and needed items to

help fulfill a variety of family and individual youth needs including

food, clothing and Christmas gifts. PCYS would like to give

thanks to this organization for their support and generosity.

Wonderful holiday generosity continued through holiday gifts and

needed items from the St. Francis Xavier Church. Thank you to

this program for helping bring assistance and joy to the holiday

season for our youth and families.

PCYS is very fortunate to have so much community support

through the holiday season and throughout the year from many

individuals, community organizations, OSU groups and local busi-

nesses. “Thanks so much to all of you. We look forward to work-

ing together the next year to support the youth and families of our

communities,” stated Freeny.

Chelsea Fortenberry, Youth Guidance Specialist

Briana Bridenstine, Youth Guidance Specialist

Kelcyn Griffith, Youth Guidance Specialist

Nicole Sharp, Administrative Assistant

Richard Ayers, Advisory Board Member

Farewell &

Best Wishes

Cindy Griffith, Youth Guidance Specialist

Morgan McClellan, Youth Guidance Specialist

Anna Youngdoff, Youth Guidance Specialist OSU Non-Traditional Students make Holiday Donation

to the PCYS Family

Orange Leaf Hosts Pajama Drive

Payne County Youth Ser-

vices, Inc. would like to

thank the Stillwater Orange

Leaf for their support of our

youth over the holidays.

Orange Leaf held a pajama

drive, selecting PCYS as the

recipient of the donations.

“PCYS received many sets

of pajamas for our youth at

our emergency youth shel-

ter”, stated Angie Freeney,

Program Coordinator who

assisted with the project

“We want to give a big

thank-you to Orange Leaf

and the community donors for providing these much needed items.”

Angie Freeny, Jonathan Stein, and Linda Parks (L-R)

enjoying a staff bowling trip in December.

Orange Leaf employee, Caitlin Ryan,

pictured with the Pajama Drive display.

Payne County Youth Services honored donors and volunteers

recently at an event held at Countryside Church, with dinner pro-

vided by Texas Roadhouse. An annual celebration of the many

ways in which donors and volunteers support the agency and the

youth and families it serves, guests enjoyed a great meal and re-

ceived updates on the agency programming. They were also able

to take home a token

as a reminder that we

“can all make a differ-

ence” when everyone

works collaboratively

toward the agency

mission.

“We are very grateful

to each donor and

volunteer for the

many ways they sup-

port PCYS,” said Janet Fultz, executive director. “Our message

tonight included not only the outputs of our programming, such

as over 400 youth served in counseling, 3,392 shelter care days

provided to children and youth, and the over 16,000 hours of

community development and education provided during Fiscal

Year 2014, but also insight into outcomes – the youth who lived a

full life having

received the

crisis interven-

tion that kept

them from tak-

ing their own

life one dark

night, or the

children and

youth rescued

from unsafe

homes by being

placed in our

shelter.”

“We offer our most sincere thank you to all donors and volun-

teers,” continued Fultz, “from small to large financial donations

to donations of cat food, volunteer time and clothing. Each sup-

porter makes a positive difference for our children, families and

communities. We invite others who would like to support PCYS

to contact us. A great opportunity available now is securing your

sponsorships or reservations for our upcoming February 7 fund-

raiser, An Evening To Remember, which will feature a Murder Mys-

tery Dinner Theater, Silent and Live Auction. You CAN make a

difference!”

Appreciation Awards were given in several categories to recognize

some of the donors and volunteers for the previous fiscal year.

Award winners are listed in the table to the right.

Heart of the

Community Award

1st Presbyterian Church, Kappa Alpha

Theta Flaming Festival, Kappa Alpha

Theta campus organization, OLLI,

Becky Irby, Noelle Baker

Outstanding Collegiate

Award

Kappa Sigma, Sigma Tau Gamma,

OSU Office of the President

Builders Award Anne and Mike Greenwood, George

Kaiser Foundation, Robert and Peggy

McCormick Charitable Fund, Bank of

Cushing

Key Resource Award Elite Repeat, Stillwater Medical Center,

Stillwater United Way

Outstanding PCYS

Board Member Award

John Mills

Outstanding Advisory

Board Member Award

Bob Burk

Outstanding

Corporate Supporter

Award

Nature’s Supply, Furniture Showcase,

Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory,

Murphy’s Department Store

Outstanding

Volunteer Award

Cat Clinic, Kim Shenold, Conner Mos-

lander, Distinguished Young Women

of Payne County, Chris Ramsay

Creative Contributions

Award

Gordon Sloggett, Keno Kreations,

Priscilla Kinnick

Heart of a Servant

Award

United Methodist Women

The United Methodist Women enjoying dinner

PCYS Honors Donors and Volunteers at Annual Appreciation Dinner

A group from Sigma Nu with their Outstanding

Collegiate Award

Jamie Payne—OSU Office of the

President, Outstanding Collegiate

Cat Clinic, Outstanding Volunteer

Award

Shelter Interns and Volunteers needed!

We are currently accepting interns and volunteers for our Emergency Youth Shelter. Please

call our office at 405-377-3380 or email Nicole at nicoles@pcys.org for more information.

Becky Irby accepting the Heart of the

Community Award Gordon Sloggett accepting the Creative

Contributions Award

Annie Smith from United Way accepting the

Key Resource Award

Ladies from Kappa Alpha Theta accepting

the Heart of the Community Award Richard Hawkins accepting the

Outstanding Volunteer Award for the DYW

Bob Burk accepting the Outstanding Advisory

Board Member Award Kathy Dorr from Elite Repeat

accepting a Key Resources Award

Velda Lirenz from the United Methodist Women

accepting the Heart of a Servant Award

RuthAnn Sirbaugh from OLLI accepting

the Heart of the Community Award

Payne County Youth Services, Inc.

Office:

2224 West 12th Street, Stillwater OK 74074; P. O. Box 2647, Stillwater OK 74076

Office: (405) 377-3380 or 1-866-377-3380; - Fax: (405) 377-3499

Executive Director: Janet Fultz, NCC, MS, LPC

Clinical Director: Brad Epperson, NCC, MS, LPC

Business Manager: Wesley Horne

Shelter Director: Kimberly Coates, MS

Shelter:

(405) 377-1452; Fax (405) 377-6291

Certified by the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and

Substance Abuse Services (ODMHSAS)

PCYS

P. O. Box 2647

Stillwater OK 74076