Birthdays and Anniversaries

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RECIPE OF THE MONTH: Crockpot Potato Soup Submitted by: The Art Gallery

Monthly Awareness

Jason P. 2/9

Phyllis W. 2/16

April B. 2/20

Brenton R. 2/20

Debbie C. 2/22

Saima A. 2/24

Lori B. 2/25

Jennifer A. 2/25

Harrod, Brenda 2/6

Vincent, Bennie 2/8

Spivey, Laura 2/9

Butrum, Tajua (TJ) 2/21

Close, Blair 2/27

Dear Parents, Caregivers and Loved Ones, We are having our annual Valentine’s Dance on February 12th. We are going

to make this a special day for our partici-pants. The Troubadours will be here to entertain us and we will be making some cupid punch (sherbet). If you would like to send in goodies for that day please feel free to do so. Thank You!

2016 is a year of change for Kaleidoscope. While we will continue to offer programming to our “younger” adult population,

we have seen a growing need for those who are aging. Therefore, we are starting a new program area focused on serving our

participants who are over the age of 50. Not everyone who is over 50 will be moved to this new area. We plan to approach

some of our aging participants who will benefit from a quieter, smaller environment with increased nursing supervision that

will focus more on age related issues.

Also, we are hosting our 2nd annual Health Fair. Some of the vendors who have committed so far include Lowe Chiropractic,

Lee Clinic, Medline, Trader Joes, Spalding University Nursing students, and The Louisville Water Company, just to name a

few. Come enjoy some relaxation with a 10 minute massage, a light snack, and learn how to avoid or control high blood pres-

sure and/or blood sugar. There will be plenty of educational material and goodies to load up on too! The date is Friday, March

25, 2016, 11:00am -2:00pm. We hope to see you there!

Finally, ‘Move It to Lose It’ will continue this year with the addition of a team leader in each area to oversee and monitor each

participant’s progress in the program. If you would like to see your loved one work on something specific, (i.e. increased

walking/exercise, weight loss, healthy eating, etc.) please call me and I will relay the information to the team leader. If you

would like to know who the team leader is in your loved ones area, I will be happy to relay that information. We look forward

to improving on the success we saw from this program last year.

Monthly Awareness: On the Move Brenda RN—Director Of Health Services

Vance, Jermekia 2/2/15

Diaz, Saydee 2/6/13

Brooks, Eleanor D. 2/23/15

Cheek, Chad J. 2/27/12

The Art Gallery Program Area made this potato soup.

They really enjoyed it on a Winters Day.

Give it a try and we are sure this hardy soup will warm you up!

Ingredients:

1 32 ounce box of chicken stock

1 bag Shredded frozen potatoes

1 can cream of chicken soup

1 cup whole milk

2 bags shredded Mexican cheese

Season with salt and paper to taste

Add everything into crock pot on high for 4-6 hours on low 6-8 hours

We will be cooking

once again on 2/9 in

celebration of Mardi

Gras. We will be mak-

ing our version of homemade Beignets.

Beignets are famous in

New Orleans at Café

Du Monde. We think

our version is pretty

good too!

P A G E 3 F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 6

Program Assistant Lacie Girdley

lation review meeting in Frankfort at 2pm and it might be very helpful for

families of individuals receiving thera-

pies through the waivers to attend.

We are trying to prevent these regula-

tions from being pushed through with-

out a "transition plan" as Medicaid calls it.

If you have any questions or would like more information feel free to call

me or email me.

Hope this finds you all well and anx-

iously awaiting the arrival of Spring!

-Tracy :)

I wanted to take time this month to

update all of our

families who have loved

ones who are re-

ceiving Speech, Occupational, or

Physical Therapy through their Waiver programs. Right now regulations have

been written and the Cabinet plan is to

remove therapies from the waiver pro-gram. What does that mean? At this

time there is no transition in place to

address lower reimbursement and cap limits of 20 sessions per year.

We are currently submitting written

comments to cite issues with the regula-tions. Please mark your calendars for

Monday, February 8th. There is a regu-

From the desk of: Executive Director Tracy

Contacts

Darla - President Liz - Director Tracy - MSSW Executive Direc-tor John S. Director of Remote Ser-

vices Brenda RN - Director of Health

Services Chad- Director of Programming Blair - MSSW Director of Social

Services

In the Spotlight

Q. What brought you to Kalei-

doscope?

A. I wanted to work with the

special needs population.

Q. What are your favorite activi-

ties to do at Kaleidoscope?

A. I like to do Karaoke with

the participants.

Q. What do like to do outside of

work?

A. I like playing softball and

writing stories.

Q. What are your favorite vaca-

tion destinations?

A. I love going to Florida.

On My last visit, we started in

Venice and ended up in the Si-

esta Keys. I also like going to

New Orleans.

Tracy’s

Desk

Q. Miss Cheryl, How do you cure Log Cabin Fever?

A. You go out and cele-

brate life!

Q. How do you stay moti-vated?

A. You stay on it and you

don’t give up! Q. So, Valentine’s Day is

right around the corner. Do

you have any love advice? A. Valentine’s Day should

be fun, you should en-

joy yourself and be

kind to others. Q. Miss Cheryl, What is

the meaning of life?

A. To love everybody, even if it’s your enemies.

“peace makes the world go

around”.

Dear Parents, Care-

givers and loved

ones,

On 2/12, we will be

having a Valen-

tine’s Day party. if

you would like to

send in any treats,

trinkets or good-

ies please feel free

to do so. Healthy

options are wel-

come too! We will

be serving up

smiles anD CupiD’s

punch to our sweet

Valentines.

Kaleidoscope, Inc

10330 Bunsen Way

Louisville, KY 40299

Phone: 502-495-1662

Fax: 502-495-1665

“We’re in the smile business”

Activities Highlights February 2016

www.kaleidoscopeservices.org

Kicking into February with

Super Bowl fun!

Week of February 1-5

Get ready for your football

warm ups. This week will be all

about football!

We will be doing some fun foot-

ball games & exercise move-

ments for our “Move it to Lose

It” program.

Our giant football goal will

be inflated, tossing games

galore and our half time

show will be the talents of

our Kaleidoscope Staff and

participants. Mrs. Paula

will join us on 2/4. It’s a

tradition for her to make

Super Bowl appetizers

with us. We shall dice,

sprinkle and spice it up!

Wear your favorite team

attire on 2/5 for our spirit

day! GO Team Kaleido-

scope!

In The Heart of Mardi Gras

February 8-12

We couldn't decide on just

one theme week since Mardi

Gras and Valentine’ Day fall

on the same week, so we will

have fun with both! On 2/9,

we will decorate our parade

floats and take a stroll

through the building. Then

we will make our traditional

beignets. They are delicious!

On 2/11 Artist Lauri Adkins

returns to assist us with cre-

ating some sweet Valentines.

The Kentucky Humane Soci-

ety returns on 2/11. We will

get our share of some puppy

love. We appreciate the time

they give to us by bringing in

their therapy dogs. They

bring us smiles!

The Troubadours will per-

form for us for our

Valentine Dance on 2/12.

Wear your pink and red and

get ready for a very heartfelt

day!

Cabin Fever February 15-19

We won’t have time for cabin fever. We are too busy having fun! We will be dancing with Diane on 2/17. On 2/18 Ryan Shrink will return to assist us with our Move It To Lose It program. Ryan is a per-sonal trainer that adapts his exercise program for us. In addition to the guest, we will be studying his-tory about our Presi-dents and African American Inventors. We plan on doing some sci-ence experiments in honor of our Africa American inventors.

“Let’s Perform” Drama, Drama, Drama

We will be getting our

“drama” on by participating

in many fun activities such as,

charades , skits and a star

runway show with makeup

artist Scooter on 2/24.

Kaleidoscope shines bright

with our stars!

We have been branching out

with some new music. We just

experienced our first opera

singer. Our participants loved

it!

We also have a new guest on

February 25th STRINGS IN

One will be here! This will be

a memorable, classy, elegant

performance with a some ex-

tra fun! He will perform

Broadway, movie, classical,

pop and rock music.

Your Program Activity Coor-

dinator is on a mission to find

new guest! In March, please

look at the calendar for some

new talented musical guest!