Wondering what the boys and girls in Uganda have been up to lately? March was filled with fun every weekend! Here’s what happened at the Bukesa, Makerere, Kibuli and Mengo homes last month: First weekend: The children learned how to make some delicious pizza -a rare treat because cheese is expensive in Uganda- and who doesn’t love pizza?! Second weekend: …
December’s Life Skill Speaker Angela Hurt of Veracity Consulting Speaks on “Compassion” at HALO Staff Meeting
This month’s life skill, and last life skill of 2016, is all about compassion. On Tues., Dec. 06, HALO invited Angela Hurt, CEO and founder of Veracity Consulting, a leading provider of information technology consulting services based in Kansas City, to talk with us about how she uses compassion in her life. Hurt emphasized the importance of focusing on customer service to employees first, …
HALO Youth Make Natural Body Scrubs
The Kansas City HALO Learning Center was lucky enough to have one of our staff Lacy Gordon teach our youth how to make all natural body scrubs. Youth had the opportunity to make one jar for themselves and then make one as a gift for anyone they wanted. They could choose the type of oil, sugar or salt, and many different essential …
Your Health is Your Greatest Wealth
Last week, Jefferson City and Kansas City HALO team members came together in HALO’s new Camp in Jefferson City, MO for the monthly staff meeting. The November life skill is “Health”. Two educational and inspiring presentations were presented on emotions, attitude and secondary trauma. HALO Founder Rebecca Welsh spoke on living with positivity based on an interview with Dr. Barbara …
Check Your Integrity
At this week’s HALO Staff Meeting, the team used our time together to revisit the topic of Integrity. We asked the questions, “How can we better maintain our own integrity?” “How can we better maintain integrity as a team?” and “What are the best ways to teach our youth to live life with integrity?” To answer our questions we …
July Life Skill of the Month “Respect”
July is the month of “Respect” here at HALO! We practice respecting others as well as ourselves in many ways throughout the month. We kicked off our monthly staff meeting with a presentation on trauma by our HALO Center Facilitator Aubony Chalfant. The team learned about the different ways trauma can affect the brain and how those impact behavior. Receiving this training was …
“Focus” Life Skill with Elisabeth Jamison
Featured monthly life skill speaker Elisabeth Jamison joined us via Skype from New York to share her expertise with the topics of mindfulness and power poses. Perfect time to bring more “Focus” into our lives as an organization plus great tips to teach our HALO youth. Elisabeth shared that “mindfulness is like when you are in love, you take in …
HALO Life Skill: Compassion
This month is all about Compassion for The HALO Foundation. This is the final life skill of the year. We were privileged to have Dan Nilsen, CEO of Bishop-McCann serve as our guest speaker. Wow! What a treat! Here’s what he said were the top 10 most important components of being compassionate in the workplace: 1. Delight the Customer: Our clients …