Holiday Happy hour

Cheer in the holiday season with BNSME and BNHRA!  We will gather in the Genesee Public House (Hyatt Regency lobby bar).  Help us support a wonderful local charity that is making a difference for children and teens: Christmas Angels is an annual campaign of Spotlight on Hope, Inc.  The effort collects gifts for children and teens (ages 8-18) who will spend the holidays in some form of psychiatric care in an inpatient, residential, day treatment, or outpatient program.

Agency recipients include:
 - Best Self's Child Advocacy Center (for sexually abused babies, children, and teens)
 - Erie County Medical Center's Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Units
 - BryLin Hospitals, WNY Children's Psychiatric Center (inpatient and outpatient)
 - Niagara Falls Memorial's Child and Adolescent Inpatient Program
 - WNY Heroes, Inc. (children of veterans receiving behavioral health care)
 - Kids Escaping Drugs Residential Treatment Program

Requested items to donate: 
 - art supplies of all kinds
 - pillow cases
 - warm clothing items
 - board games
 - sporting equipment (basketballs, footballs, soccer balls, kickballs)
 - journals
 - beauty and hygiene products (soap, toothpaste, shampoo, combs/hair brushes, deodorant - items that smell nice, too!).

For more information, see the Christmas Angels FLYER