In June, the Madison Monona Lioness held their annual raffle and fundraiser that benefited Gio’s Garden. Today Tammy and Betty stopped by to drop off the check. Thank you for raising $2,500 for Gio’s Garden. Our families greatly appreciate it!
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Therapeutic Recreation at Gio’s Garden?
Therapeutic Recreation (or recreation therapy) is using recreational and other activities as treatment interventions to improve functional living skills by focusing on physical, emotional, cognitive, and social developmental areas. As a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist, I am able to look at the needs of each child and create activities to meet those needs. I meet… Read More
Already July?
So hard to believe that it is already July! Gio’s Garden has been open and serving families for a month now! We have gotten a lot accomplished over the last month. We have started providing care for a few different families. It does take some time to fill out all the paperwork that is required… Read More
Upcoming Fundraisers!
We are gearing up for a HUGE few months! Not only are we in the process of hiring a Director to run Gio’s Garden as well as a Respite Care Coordinator to plan programs and handle families and children and volunteers, we are also planning fundraisers! The first will be on April 14th – it… Read More
Oh…yah…we should have good security at all our entrances!
I met today with some fabulous people who contacted us about our telephone system and helping us get that up and running. It just recently dawned on me that we would have to have a business phone plan for the house…not just a single phone line. Gee…go figure. When talking with Beth and Nissa from… Read More
