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January is National Mentoring Month

Published from HK Now Have you considered becoming a mentor for a child in our community? As a mentor, you can have a positive impact on a boy or girl in your community. Mentors are volunteers from the community who have: –Applied to the HKYFS Mentoring Program to become a mentor. –Agreed to participate in […]

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HK Mentoring Program Needs Volunteers

Ever wondered what you could do to impact the life of a child in a positive way? Do you have one spare hour of time per week to become a valued friend and role model to a child?

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Adjusting so that We Can Continue to Serve

On March 19th, 2020, Youth and Family Services of Haddam Killingworth Inc. (HKYFS) closed its doors like many other small businesses in Connecticut thinking we would open once the new, novel Coronavirus had run its course.

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Patty Coletti:
The Value of Teachers, Mentors, and Pen Pals

Who would have thought that in the year 2020, old-school pen pal writing would make a comeback? Or that in the age of emails and texts, letters handwritten on regular paper and sent via postal mail would be a good idea at all?

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Lindsey Lehet: Promoting Prevention as a Solution

We’ve all heard the saying before and we repeat it as often as we think it necessary: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. But for Lindsey Lehet, prevention coordinator for the Youth and Family Services of Haddam-Killingworth Inc., prevention means a whole lot more for the youth she works with.

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