Program News 2006
Halloween 2006 at Good Shepherd
Halloween festivities were celebrated in style throughout Good Shepherd this year. Our afterschool program participants from PS/MS 15 and PS 291 in the Bronx held a party with yummy snacks for all and dancing, including a ‘Thriller Soul Train Line.' Also in the Bronx, volunteers from Foster Pride helped our staff throw a Halloween bash for the families of our Foster Boarding Home program. Activities included cupcake decorating and mask-making, and each child left with a bag of treats as well.
In Manhattan, teenagers from our six group residential programs for adolescents gathered in the gymnasium of our 17th Street facility, which was decorated for the occasion with spooky disco lights. The party featured face-painting, a costume contest, as well as a DJ and dancing.
In Brooklyn, the afterschool program at Agnes Humphrey School for Leadership held a carnival where more than 200 children played ‘Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin,' ‘Mummy Wrap,' and ‘Donuts on a String,' as well as decorating cookies and having their faces painted. The Safe Homes Project hosted a party where children made a group Halloween mural and decorated goody bags, which were filled later as they trick-or-treated throughout the staff's offices. The Red Hook Community Center Beacon at PS 15 hosted nearly 300 people from the community for a night of mask-making, bowling with fake severed heads, coloring, feeling around in the ‘Bag O' Guts,' and more. The Beacon's dance group performed, and the ‘Spooky Walk,' which took up half the second floor of the school, was run by the program's youth leaders.
November 6, 2006
