A complete list of all May activities!!!

Because there's just so much going on!!

Aztec Dance
Friday, May 7th • 6 pm
Carpinteria Main Family Resource Center (5201 8th Street, Carpinteria 93013)

Family Service Agency's 27th Annual Children's Festival
Saturday, May 15th • 11pm to 4pm
Alameda Park (Micheltorena & Santa Barbara St., Santa Barbara, CA)


They need your help, and being the helpful community citizens that you are, I hope you’ll sign up if you’re able! To volunteer please contact mentor Katya Armistead: Katya.Armistead(AT)sa(DOT)ucsb(DOT)edu or Debra Roets with FSA for more information: (805) 965-1001 x222.

Wheels & Waves 11th Annual Classic & Hot Rod Show
Saturday May 15th & Sunday, May 16th
Saturday “Cruise” down State Street begins at 3:30 from Pershing Park
Sunday viewing on State Street (between Haley and Cota) from 9 am to 2 pm
See the website (www.wheelsandwaves.com) for more details.

California Strawberry Festival
Saturday May 15th & Sunday, May 16th
10 am to 6:30 pm 
Strawberry Meadows of College Park in Oxnard, CA
General admission = $12
Seniors (62+) = $8
Active military and dependents with ID = $8 (only available at entrance gate)
Children ages 5-12 = $5
Free for kids 4 and under
There is a Free shuttle picking up at the northernmost point at the Channel Islands Harbor. You can visit their website for more information: www.strawberry-fest.org


Mentor Program Trip to the Carpinteria Seal Rookery
Thursday, May 20th • 3:30 to 4:30 pm
See below for details (More May Madness!!! post)

City at Peace presents “Masks”
Thursday to Saturday, May 20th to 22nd
7:30 pm
Center Stage Theater (751 Paseo Nuevo, Santa Barbara, CA 93101)
Admission is FREE to Teens with ID for the Thursday night performance. For more information, you can visit their Facebook event page: Facebook
In short, this is a “play about self-identity and the realities and unrealities of teens in Santa Barbara”. It’s entirely written and performed by a group of local junior high and high school students.
**If you want to attend this play with your mentee, please let your case manager know. We will fund your ticket if you attend on Thursday night, and fund both of your tickets if you go on Friday or Saturday night. Yes, we care that much.


3rd Annual Law Bowl
Saturday, May 22nd • 12 to 2pm
Zodos Bowling & Beyond
See below for details (Marvelous May post)


On-Going Mentor Training: Knowing the Signs of Domestic Violence
Wednesday, May 26th • 5:30pm to 6:30pm
CADA • 232 E. Canon Perdido St. • 2nd floor, Conference Room 2
See below for details (Marvelous May post)

Carpinteria Power of Parents workshop
Friday, May 28th • 6 to 8 pm
Girls Inc. (5315 Foothill Rd., Carpinteria, CA 93013)
This is not just for Carpinteria…it’s an opportunity for all caring adults to hear about real issues faced by youth in the community. Topics include: Bullying, Sexual Harassment, and Parent Enrichment. You can learn how to best communicate with your kids and open the dialogue about these important issues. There will also be a special performance by the Los Prietos “Drama Kings”. Bring your mentees along with you to let them know you are ready and willing to discuss these topics with them! You can also encourage your mentee's parents to attend!
If you need childcare your young ones, it will be provided free of charge.


Maxt Out at the Granada
Saturday May 29th • 7pm
See below for details (More May Madness!!! post)

I Madonnari Street Painting Festival
Saturday to Monday May 29th to May 31st
10 am to 6 pm
Old Mission Santa Barbara (Corner of Los Olivos & Laguna Street, Santa Barbara)
Artists use pastels on pavement to create beautiful large scale pieces of artwork to benefit the Children’s Creative Project.
For more information, please visit: www.imadonnarifestival.com
You can also go anytime before then that week to watch the artists begin their creations or anytime after the festival until the weather wipes the paintings away.

More May Madness!!!

Maxt Out @ the Granada
Saturday, May 29th • 7 pm
Granada Theater (1216 State St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101)
Maxt Out is an innovative, professional dance competition and showcase consisting of over 1,000 dancers from all over California. This resilient and unwavering dance competition has set the standard for elaborate dance competitions and showcases in the Los Angeles area. Maxt Out aspires to create a dynamic experience for all ages with exhilarating entertainment by utilizing diverse musical selection and choreography. By inviting a high level of aspiring talents and established professionals as well, Maxt Out continues to create a positive and inviting experience for all through dance, choreography, competition, and music. Maxt Out Dance Competition is open to all dance crews and choreographers willing to compete. Each dance crew and choreographer uses the elements of hip hop, street, break dance, etc as inspirations to make their routine. Maxt Out also offers the ability for dance crews and choreographers to exhibit their talents in our exhibition division. These dances do not compete. They simply bring their talented dancers to show what they’ve been working on give a great show for our guests!

Maxt Out is produced and directed by Joanna Vargas of JAYVEE DANCE Productions, INC. Maxt Out began in 2001 in Los Angeles at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood. Since then, Maxt Out has grown from 100 dancers to over 1,000 competitive dancers from ages 7 to adult. Maxt Out began as an adult dance showcase featuring choreographers and dance crews from all over Southern California and now has grown to an all ages dance competition with a Minor division for juniors and a Major division for adults. Maxt Out Dance Competition offers two different competition dance divisions; Crew Division and CHOR(Choreographers) Division. Dancers and choreographers have the ability to compete in many different competition divisions and styles of dance at Maxt Out.

Tickets are FREE to the first 10 mentor/mentee pairs to RSVP with either Juliana or Teresa. RSVP deadline is Friday, May 14th @ 5 pm.

Trip to the Carpinteria Seal Rookery!
Thursday, May 20th • 3:30 to 4:30 pm 

**Meet at the Bluffs Parking lot
**Exit 101 at Bailard Ave. in Carpinteria and turn towards the ocean. Keep driving into the parking lot.

One of the most interesting secrets of Carpinteria is the Seal Preserve.  The Harbor Seal Preserve is home to almost 100 adult seals who give birth to their cubs on the Carpinteria shoreline.  The beach is closed 750 feet on either side of the rookery (as their nesting area is called) from December through May.

We'll walk together to the bluffs above the preserve and a docent will talk with us about why there is need for a protected area, we'll see the newborn pups, and enjoy a nice walk...it's about 10 minutes from the parking lot.


RSVP to Juliana or Teresa no later than Tuesday, May 18th @ 5 PM!

Marvelous May

Lesson Idea: The United States makes so much more out of Cinco de Mayo than the people of Mexico. The holiday is mostly celebrated by the Mexican state of Puebla. Why not look into the significance of this holiday with your mentee, and find out why the United States turned it into a day they wanted to celebrate? Ask your mentee what, if anything, their family does for Cinco de Mayo. This could turn into a conversation about family traditions...

Bowl to Benefit Santa Barbara's Teen Court!
3rd Annual Law Bowl
Saturday, May 22nd
12 to 2 PM
Zodo's Bowling and Beyond
5925 Calle Real, Goleta, CA 93117


Community members and organizations have donated money in support of Santa Barbara's Teen Court. This means that they have sponsored lanes to allow our youth to bowl who are involved with CADA youth programs, including the Mentor Program. So far we have one lane available to us, which means that 5 mentees can bowl for free!! Mentors, you won't have the chance to bowl yourself this time, but don't worry, we will have a bowling event in the summer in which you can participate!


Spots are available on a first come, first serve basis. RSVP to your case manager! We will take a waiting list in case other spots open! 


To find out more about Teen Court, visit their website: http://cadasb.org/youth-services/teen-court.aspx
To find out how to support Law Bowl, go here: http://cadasb.givezooks.com/events/third-annual-lawbowl

Mentor Training: Knowing the Signs of Domestic Violence
Wednesday, May 26th
5:30 to 6:30 pm
CADA • 2nd Floor • Conference Room 2
232 E. Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101

Join us for a training led by Christy Haynes, Teen Services Coordinator for Domestic Violence Solutions for Santa Barbara County. Christy has worked and advocated for teens in school and agency settings for the past 20 years, creating and implementing programs focusing on violence prevention, conflict resolution, anger management and personal development. She has worked with teens in junior high and high schools, Juvenile Hall, Probation, Community Counseling and Education Center, as national facilitator for The Joseph Matteucci Foundation, and as executive director of re:solutions. Christy received her Master’s Degree in Psychology in 1999 at Antioch University, Santa Barbara, with a special focus in Community Psychology.

Christy will help us learn to identify the signs that could be a potentially dangerous living situation for our mentees and/or their family. She'll also help us know how to talk with a youth who maybe has a history of violence in the home, and how to talk with them about these scary situations.


To learn more about DVS, you can look at their website: http://www.dvsolutions.org/default.aspx


RSVP no later than Monday, May 24th at 5 PM to either Juliana or Teresa.

Mission for Mentors Telethon Update!

Over 60 community members volunteered their time to help us raise mentors from south Santa Barbara county. We were able to raise over 90 potential mentors, totaling over 4,700 hours pledged to work with our youth! Below are some pictures, taken by our fabulous photographer, Carolyn Newstrom, who volunteered her time to help us document this! More pictures can be found at: SmugMug. Thanks so much again to Venoco, Inc. and the Hutton Foundation for making this event possible!!

Our phone answerers were mentors, board members, and other giving members of the community.

Looking out over the event!

Part of the tireless and amazing KEYT crew!

Paula Lopez interviewed Mentor Lisa, with her mentee, and Magda Arroyo, the Director of the Westside Boys and Girls club. Lisa and her mentee spend time at the Club doing many activities.

 She also interviewed mentors Katya and Andrea, and the two sisters that they mentor.

 

Beth Farnsworth interviewed the Chair of the CADA Board, Fred Clough, and the Chair of the Fighting Back Steering Committee, Peter MacDougall.

Beth also interviewed Marybeth Carty: a mentor, Mentor Program task force member, and Community Relations Coordinator for Venoco, Inc.

SB Police Chief Cam Sanchez; me; the Project Director of Fighting Back, Penny Jenkins; and Mentor Program Director, Ed Cue.

Thank you again to all who helped, including our other Business Sponsors: KEYT 3, Cottage Health System, American Riviera Bank, and Paseo Nuevo. Thank you to our T-shirt creator, Wearable Graphics.

Pics from the Whole Foods Tour!

Rae gave us a great tour of Santa Barbara's newest health foods market. The kids learned what "organic" means, and the adults learned about the health index the store uses to guide people through better choices.

There was a section of yummy smelling soaps!!

The kids were not big fans of the seafood section...but it looks so fresh!!

However, there was a yummy looking section of desserts! And they were kind enough to give everyone a cupcake!

Upcoming April Events...

We are ready for Spring!! Here's what's coming up for all you mentors and mentees!

UCSB Men's Volleyball vs. Penn State
Friday, April 9th @ 7 PM

Rob Gym @ UCSB
RSVP to Teresa Segovia by Wednesday, April 7th @ 5 PM
Join the Mentor Program as it goes to watch Men's Indoor Volleyball. Penn State sits in the #1 spot in their conference, undefeated in their division, and UCSB sits #10 in the NCAA rankings...this should be a challenging and fun game to watch!!
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Whole Foods Tour
Wednesday, April 14th, 3:30 to 4:30 PM

3761 State St., Santa Barbara, CA 93105
RSVP to your case manager by Friday, April 9th @ 5 PM
Join us as we take a tour of Santa Barbara's newest grocery store: Whole Foods! We'll learn about the philosophy behind Whole Foods, be introduced to the different departments, enjoy food samples, and take goodie bags home!
Until then, you can take part in a "Dye Free" Egg Coloring Event in the store with your mentee. Saturday, April 3rd, 1-3 PM. Click here for more details! RSVP is required to rae.vanseenus@wholefoods.com. Or join the community for the 6 month celebration of the store opening on Wednesday, April 7th, 12noon-2 PM for customer appreciation day!

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Beach Collection Day!
Thursday, April 15th, 4 to 5:30 PM

Meet at the top of the hill above Ledbetter Beach, parking on the street or in the free lot of Shoreline Park, across from La Marina St. Map
RSVP by Monday, April 12th @ 5 PM
We'll be collecting sticks, stones, broken seashells, and seaglass to use in our upcoming Mosaic Art Classes with Gina Garoogian! Details to come about continuing classes. If you're not able to join us for the art classes, you can still use what you collect for an art project on your own with your mentee! And since we'll be collecting things, I'll have trash bags ready for a little lesson in beach clean-up. BONUS: Shoreline Beach Café is kind enough to donate beverages for us as a reward after for our hard work!



Mission for Mentors Telethon!!
Wednesday, April 21st, 5 to 8 PM

Paseo Nuevo Center Court
The Mentor Program is excited to annouce the 13th Annual Mission for Mentors Telethon! We are honored that this event is going to be sponsored by the Hutton Foundation and Venoco, Inc. We are looking for volunteers to help with sign-in, monitoring the food table, handing out t-shirts, etc. for approx. one hour time slots. Please let me know if you are able to help! You will receive a free t-shirt and pizza from California Pizza Kitchen for volunteering your time!


If you aren't able to volunteer for an hour, please come visit us anyways! We'd love to see some friendly, familiar faces :)

Spring into Health Event Pictures and Summary!!

Amy Gates, Ed Cue, and Ed's daughter, were the friendly faces that greeted all incoming guests.

Kids and adults received and earned raffle tickets so they could pick the prize they most wanted.

  

Capoeira Batuque kicked off the event with an awesome performance that had everyone watching and ready to get moving!

 

 

 
 
Capoeira was followed by a demonstration of students from the studio of Aikido Kenkyukai Santa Barbara lead by Sensei Lia Suzuki.
 
 

 

 

 

Two students with their bokutō (wooden swords).
 
 
 
 

South Coast Karate was represented by Sensei Brian Jordan and student, Anthony, who pulled up a group of willing attendees to learn some basic Karate moves during the demonstration portion of the event.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
  
 
 

The final demonstration was by Teri McDuffie of Santa Barbara Women's Self Defense and a couple helpers. She showed us the strongest parts of your body to use when defending yourself. She proved how powerful the ball of your foot could be as well as the back of your forearm/elbow - they can break a shin and knock the wind out of someone if necessary! She broke two boards for us, which really had us ready for the next portion of the event: the interactive parts!!

We had the kids break into three groups, according to age. Our groups were lead by: Aikido Kenkyukai Santa Barbara & South Coast Karate, Believe and Achieve Fitness with Melanie Elkin & the Promotora Program with the Diabetes Resource Center of Santa Barbara, and Santa Barbara Women's Self Defense.

The kids and their mentors/ parents learned easy ways to relax in stressful situations with Melanie Elkin. They also learned about healthy and nutritious living from the Diabetes Resource Center. They brought a table and showed everyone how much sugar was in each of their favorite drinks by placing the actual sugar granuals in a cup in front of the actual drink! Scary!

Sensei Lia and her team had kids of all ages participate. The littlest of the bunch partcipated in fun relays...a simple way to get them up and moving!!

The older kids were taught some basic Aikido moves, and then practiced in pairs.

Sensei Brian and Anthony showed the kids how to kick and punch and then had them compete to see who was best listening.

Everyone who attended (nearly 70 people!) had a great time and learned fun, new ways to stay active and healthy overall. Many, many thanks to our AMAZING contributors and teachers (and students!) from Aikido Kenkyukai Santa Barbara (www.aksb.org), Believe and Achieve Fitness (www.youbelieveandachievefitness.com), Capoeira Batuque (http://www.marianosilva.com/), Diabetes Resource Center of Santa Barbara (www.sbdrc.org), Santa Barbara Women's Self Defense (www.sbslfdfnz.com), and South Coast Karate (www.southcoastkarate.com). Please visit their website and contact them for more information. Thank you also to the Carpinteria Women's Club for allowing us to use their facility for this important event, to Janet Austin for arranging the PA system, to all of the volunteers who came to help at the event, and to all of our donors for contributing wonderful items for our kids and adults to enjoy! And a special thank you to our Task Force members Lisa Gosdschan, Mary Ann Helman, Marybeth Carty, and Susan Tarlow, without whom this event would not have been possible!!