Ele's Place

Hi, My name is McKenna Brooks, and today I'm gonna

be talking to you about Eli's Place, a very special

organization. So Ellis places a nonprofit based in Michigan, and

it provides a support network for grieving Children and young

adults in the area.

The revision is to ensure that no child in Michigan

grieves alone when talking about Elliot's.

Please, it's very important to know their origin story to

truly understand what they stand for.

At least police was founded about 30 years ago and

90 91 by Mental Health Workers volunteers and Betsy and

Woody Stober, built in wood.

Eastover had four Children, and we're living the best life

possible, the American dream.

When suddenly Ali passed away at 11 months old, heartbroken

and devastated about seeing what he still looked for any

outlet they could ride for their family to understand and

walk through.

Their grief was they only found things for themselves as

parents and adults, nothing for their Children.

Upon finding this, they decided that they would take it

into their own pans and create their own network.

They began in a church basement and expanded into four

communities in eight counties.

Sense son always place aims to revive.

Three core service is to the Children and young adults

they cater to, so I'm gonna break it down a

little further for you.

First, there's peer group therapy, which Ellis Place was founded

on. This is when the Children are broken off into

groups based on their age and led by a counselor

mental health counselor, specifically will help them work through their

grief. This provides connection should appears we often feel disconnected

from, and it's a private way to work together through

their grief.

Next, there's also school group therapy that L.

A provides in the area.

This is their outreach program and revised Children outlet during

class to escape Thio in a way to connect to

classmates in a way that seems beyond possible.

They're also family events in visuals that Ellis Place will

provide. This is a way to bring the families together

during this hard time, for example, before Eli's Place locations

have a potluck room where they will have dinner for

every single service night.

This helps the families during this hard time, when it's

almost impossible just to make a meal and put it

on the table.

There's also events such as the balloon release, where families

will write the name of their loved ones and messages

and release it together as a family.

As a nonprofit, volunteering is a very significant part of

Eli's place.

In fact, a significant amount of the staff of Ellie's

place is volunteer based Children.

Teen and young adults are often forgotten in their grief

among parents, too.

I need a full team behind them.

These volunteers can provide any range of help in a

wide range of time commitments.

This could be from one night a week to even

your loan commitments out of time when it comes to

who they're looking for in the talent that always please

needs, there's super wide range, and almost anyone can find

a way to help.

Specifically. First off, they need mental health professionals.

These will be the people leading their groups and providing

counseling to the Children and young adults in question.

They also need PR professionals, also known as public relations.

These are gonna be the people that are leading outreach,

not only looking for Children that are in need, but

people that can help provide their volunteer surfaces and their

donations so we threw info boots and presentations.

They also need financial advisers.

These will be the people that'll help Ella's.

Please stay on a specific budget and budget.

These donations will also help with check acceptance ranging a

little bit off of PR.

There's also the fund raising side of things.

These will be the people that'll actually organized the events

through Eli's place and activities to gain these funds and

these donations.

They're also often need of office helpers, so no job

is little Receptionist can play a huge part of this

leading the way as well as data entry.

Every little job counts.

And if you can't find a way to fit into

the other five categories, you could be one of the

grief survivors.

So a very special role in Ellie's place that holds

a very specific part.

And the hearts of those who go there are the

greeters. These will be the people that connect with participants

as soon as they walk through the door and make

each of the Children feel at home and like they

belong, moving on for volunteering and talents.

It's important to talk about donations, so L A is

place is a non profit as we've discussed before.

Um, as discussed as well previously lost among youth is

often overlooked and has very few.

Resource is when choosing a place to donate to provide

your money to Eli's Place is an excellent option, as

they are a one of a kind of the area.

In fact, for two of the four regions, Ellis Place

right service up there.

The Onley nonprofit, designated specifically to youth, greets in that

area. When you don't need to Eli's Place, you're not

just giving money to the organization.

You know what is going towards Ellis?

Please always provides.

Free service is ever involved.

They will never charge a single soul that walks their

door and needs help to do so.

They need to fund mental health workers, but also they

need the Eastern nations to purchase things that are needed

for these group sessions.

This can range widely, but I wanted to put down

a few examples.

There are grief journal E notebooks where the students and

Children are able to put down what they need and

how they feel.

Um, arts and crafts specifically for the younger groups, memorial

boxes were they decorate wooden boxes and put Mementos of

their loved ones in them and family dinners.

Just helping provide those meals that, like I've said before,

are so hard to get in place during a time

of grief.

Don't need Delhi's places specifically very easy and set up

throughout their website.

The first step would be to select the amount.

So when you're selecting out, it'll tell you what your

money is going towards.

So the same amount sponsors a child for a set

number of months.

For example, the few dollars will be enough to sponsor

a child for one month and 100 $25.

Just wanted a child for three months and etcetera, Step

two, you will select your branch, so this is optional.

However, a lot of people, like just set a specific

branch or community that they want to donate to make

homes to Eli's Place.

There are four different branches of the operate out of

Ann Arbor Capital Region Radar Flint in West Michigan, the

thirst of allies placed my specific favorite.

One is selecting a tribute.

Now this is another optional one, but it's a way

to donate in tribute of someone that you've lost your

able to revive their name and their honored with that

donation. It's also a great way if someone has lost

a loved one to provide something in their name, you

can have it so that they send something to the

family, and they're aware that someone has donated in tribute

of their lost loved one.

In conclusion, Ellis, please, has served more than 25,000 individuals

in Michigan over 30 years.

They're currently still tending to the needs of 20,000 Children

and growing the support and service is at least believe

Elliot's place provides grieving Children, kids and teens and young

adults is absolutely on parallel when it comes to court

takeaways. We really need to remember that Ellie's place exists

almost solely based on providing free counseling.

Service is they want to provide for an overlooked group

of grievers who don't have anywhere else to turn to

an intern.

By helping these survivors, Indians grievers, they provide them the

tools and opportunities to grow and come together with their

Ele's Place

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