Archive for June 2021

Call for Riders! Once again, Latham Centers will participate in The Gasp, a charity bike ride hosted by the Barnstable Charitable Foundation. The ride will take place virtually from Sunday, September 5th through Friday, September 10th, with each rider completing at least 55 miles over the five days. Latham is planning a 20-30 mile team…

    In case you missed it (ICYMI): Latham created another innovative celebration for Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month this year. Please join us in thanking Patrice Carroll (Director of PWS Services) and Katrina Fryklund (Director of National Outreach) for the incredible work they did filming 31 short videos with students from Latham Centers and our…

If you’ve seen our Job Fair posts on social media, you may have noticed this gorgeous image of the yard at one of our group residences. The sunset photo was taken earlier this month by Adult Services Residential Manager Stephen Lavallee. “The ladies have been working very hard on the gardens all spring, and they’re…

  The Latham community continues our conversation about Juneteenth following our June 21st virtual celebration and commemoration. Today we highlight three contributors to Monday’s celebration –- Reign, King Shakur, and ShySpeaks. Reign is a Dallas native and activist who leads much volunteer work and owns Brown Sugar Lounge. He is an artist with a passion…

Latham Centers hosted over 65 staff, friends, and family in an inspiring virtual Juneteenth Celebration on Monday. This is just the beginning; a conversation now, and a way to change the future. Monique Williams, Latham’s Director of Health and Wellness, kicked off the inaugural event at Latham, sharing a brief history of Juneteenth and reading…

On Juneteenth, we’re sharing some of the facts our program learned about the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” also known as the Black National Anthem. In conversations with Latham’s Juneteenth Celebration speaker Arthur Gregg (Latham friend, expert in Juneteenth, and Assistant Vice President of the Multicultural Center at The University of Texas at Dallas),…

  By Katrina Fryklund Director of National Outreach Juneteenth Committee Member   As Latham Centers celebrates Juneteenth for the first time, we asked staff to reflect on the meaning of Juneteenth. It is a difficult question for many, myself included. For every staff person, that meaning is different, and it depends on your history and…

If you know Latham, you know that we’re a team of helpers.  We LOVE these images of Craig, Laura, and Amanda working together to help a snapping turtle get back to the pond. “We don’t just help our students – we take care of others (species), too!”  ~Judy Skolnick   Photos taken in early June…

Latham Centers is proud to host ShySpeaks at our virtual Juneteenth Celebration! Shy Amos, also known as ShySpeaks, is an American hip hop and spoken word artist. With her soulful voice, thoughtful lyrics, and irrepressible confidence, Shy is winning fans from San Francisco to the UK and nations in between. Her rhymes are brilliant, spiritual,…

Latham Centers’ Juneteenth Committee is honored to create new and important traditions in our community. In recent blog posts, we have shared the Juneteenth Celebration Plan, an invitation to attend on June 21st, Patrice Carroll’s Tip on how to have difficult conversations about Juneteenth with your child, and Juneteenth facts. Following the committee’s work explaining…