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For future reference all Division IV meetings will be held
on the
3rd Friday of the month so mark your calendars.
The next meeting is December 16, 2011 at
10:30 am
Room #121 at the Foothills Higher Education Center on 2128
S. Sterling St., Morganton.
Directions are: From either I-40 East or West, take exit 105
for Morganton. Take a right on South Sterling St. and go
approx. 1/4th of a mile - meeting will be on the left. Park
in the lot where you can see Zaxby's.
The NCPPA Christmas Project for this year will be a Food
Drive.
Each year members volunteer for a project that we can be a
part of and help give back to the communities in a positive
way. We are asking for canned food or monetary donations.
Food Boxes will be set up in your offices if your office
chooses to participate for this project. $1 donation can
provide enough food for 3 meals. Many of us are blessed to
be able to put food on our tables but there are those that
are not. Together, we can help make a difference so that a
child doesn’t go hungry. We are asking challenging each
person to bring 5 cans of food to donate to our food drive.
The deadline is December 19 for donations and we will pick
up canned items and weigh them to see which district
collects the most canned items.
Many of the people served by food banks report they are
struggling with unemployment, difficult choices between food
and other basic necessities, and the pressures of healthcare
costs.
Important data from the MANNA FoodBank study includes:
(which serves Western NC)
106,600 different people in Western North Carolina seek food
assistance in a single year from emergency food programs
served by MANNA FoodBank.
That’s 1 in 6 of our WNC neighbors
• Only 45% of the client households served by MANNA FoodBank
receive Food and Nutrition Services benefits (formerly known
as food stamps). It is likely that many more are eligible.
• Western North Carolinians seeking emergency food
assistance often face tough choices between paying for food
or other essentials such as fuel, housing, and healthcare.
• 36% of households seeking emergency food assistance do
have at least one employed adult. Working people in Western
North Carolina are struggling to make ends meet and while
employed, many are underemployed, part time, or seasonal
NCPPA will provide a breakfast for the District that
collects the most food items. Each $1 collected will count
at 2 cans of food. Let’s all pull together and see who can
collect the most and help a child or family not go hungry.
Thank you for your participation and Happy Holidays!
This past holiday season Division IV took on the task of
providing Christmas to a single parent family with a teenage
daughter along with 20 children from the Hearts with Hands
Christmas from the Heart project. In conjunction with
several individuals who donated monies, NCCPA Division IV
members shopped and delivered gifts for them all, so they
could have a happy holiday. If you’ve still not joined the
NCPPA please take a minute and do so.
The NCPPA is committed to:
Noteworthy stimulating high standards of professionalism and
training.
Creating an active forum for increasing public awareness and
encouraging innovative services.
Providing quality information to criminal justice
professionals and decision-makers.
Promoting international communication and the exchange of
ideas within the field.
Advancing progressive probation and parole practice
It’s your chance to have a voice.
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