Health Care Finance Training

FUSE and Family Voices Indiana are partnering to bring you To Your Child’s Health, a series of health care finance trainings designed to help families raising children with disabilities learn more about the systems that can help meet their child’s health needs. If you were unable to attend the first session, Understanding the Funding Maze, you can now watch the online Webisode and use the Webquest to learn about all the health care financing resources touched upon in the training.

View the Webisode at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-cuRWEMcqE&feature=youtube.

Click here to access the Webquest

The second training in the series is

Filling the Funding Gaps
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Ameriana Bank Community Room
1810 N State Street
Greenfield
9:30 am –11:30 am
Cost: no charge

Online registration is now open. Click here to register.

Raising a child with special health care needs or disabilities brings unexpected and added expenses. This training will explore the variety of grant, philanthropic and creative options available to help you meet your family’s needs. Be prepared to learn about the hidden options you need to know! Participants will leave ready to pursue “next steps” for a variety of funding and supports for which they may be eligible.

Child care is not available at this event, but parents who need child care to attend may apply for a scholarship to support their child care expense. Please request a claim form when you register. A check will be issued at the conclusion of the training.

Future sessions in the series include: All Kinds of Medicaid (August 18) Health Care Financing after age 18 (October 20).

 

This training is funded by a grant from Sponsored by.

Inspiring Abilities Expo

Plan to attend the 6th annual Inspiring Abilities Expo
Saturday, March 10
9 am to 2 pm
Greenfield-Central High School
810 N Broadway
Greenfield

Parents of children with disabilities of all types will have the opportunity to speak directly with service providers, non-profit agencies and other organizations to learn more about products, services or programs to benefit their child. This year’s expo will be bigger and better than ever!

A complete list of exhibitors is listed below and will be updated as exhibitors register.  Training topics are listed on the right.  To access specific information about each session, including a description of the training and biography of the speaker, click here.  This document will be updated as speaker information is received.  

Nine training sessions are scheduled.
Topics include:

*financial planning
*transitioning to adult health care
*guardianship
*employment services
*conscious discipline
*nutrition challenges
*caring for the caregiver
*transitions in early childhood
*assistive technology apps for ipods/ipads

Admission is free and on-site child care is available. Lunch will be available to purchase on site.

Exhibitors at the Expo include:

Lions Club Event

 

New Palestine Lions Club and
Triton Community Lions Club
present
Boys and Girls Basketball All Star Games

Saturday, April 14, 2012
New Palestine High School

Hancock County All Stars vs. Shelby County All Stars

Your child is invited to be an honored guest at this event.  The Girls game begins at 6:00 P.M. and the Boys game approximately at 7:30 P.M.  Your child will be honored between the two games during a mid-court presentation, where they receive a free basketball.  Each child will be paired with an All-Star player during the presentation. 

Please plan to arrive at New Palestine High School at 6:30 P.M. 

Registration is required.
To register, please contact FUSE at 462-9064 or by email at info@fuseinc.org.
Event admission is $6.00.  Children 10 and under are free.  You will receive two event admission tickets free.  There is no admission cost for your child being honored.

All proceeds benefit FUSE, Families United for Support and Encouragement, a Hancock County nonprofit organization that works to improve the lives of children with special needs and their families.

To guarantee that your child receives their free basketball, please register by Wednesday, March 21.

 

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Restaurant Benefits

We hope you will join us for our upcoming restaurant benefit nights! Dining out for FUSE helps us fund general operating expenses, the hardest expenses to fund from other sources.

Last Wednesday of every month January to July 2012

McDonald's
New Palestine

March 28 - CANCELLED due to spring break
April 25
May 30
June 27
July 25

Benefit Hours 5 pm to 8 pm

No Flyer required for McDonald's or Culvers. Dine in or drive thru

Thursday, March 15,2012 4p-8p

Culvers in Greenfield

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Culvers in Greenfield

Winter Weather Policy

As we move into the winter activities for FUSE, we thought a reminder of our winter weather policy is probably timely.

FUSE follows the weather closure decisions of Greenfield-Central Community Schools. If Greenfield-Central schools are closed, FUSE activities scheduled for that day are cancelled. If school is released early due to inclement weather or evening school events are cancelled, FUSE activities are also cancelled. If school is on a two hour delay in the morning of a FUSE event, generally the event will go on as scheduled.

Event cancellations will be posted on the What's New page of our website and will be broacast on the FUSE voice mail. If the weather is at all questionable, please check those places before heading out into the weather. Meeting and activity cancellations will be determined and announced at least one hour prior to the event.