Second Grader Presten Jones
By Crystal Mayo, BABESWORLD Chief Operating Officer
Since our expansion into Oakland County to open PREVENTION PLACE, I find myself amazed daily at the transformation of over 3,100 square feet that once represented (obviously) too many years of a time, a business – that once was … Large, open, vacant space just sitting for the right tenant, with the right plan to occupy … to love up on.
I’ll never forget the day Reverend Lottie and I did a walk-through of the space. Within about fifteen minutes, she looked at me with that look that only Reverend Dr. Lottie Jones Hood can give and then commented without hesitation, in a soft assuring voice, “This is our space.” Somehow through all the years of collected dust, the surroundings of tattered or missing blinds, the stained carpeting and painted walls that didn’t represent any particular color other than faded, she was able to tap into her vision of over 35 years ago to open a place for children that would be called PREVENTION PLACE. Continue reading Excitement of MOM
By: Crystal Mayo, BABESWORLD Special Projects/Media Specialist
On Tuesday, May 1st, BABESWORLD officially opened its Oakland County site in the Northland Towers, Southfield, MI. “It has always been a dream of mine to open a PREVENTION PLACE for “The young in age and the young at heart,” says BABES Founder, CEO and President Dr. Lottie Jones Hood. BABESWORLD will maintain its Wayne County site (its home office) on E. McNichols in Detroit. Continue reading Our Oakland County Site is Officially Open: Prevention Place
By: Crystal Mayo, BABES Special Projects/Media
Over the past 40 years, BABES has trained groups of individuals Basic BABES (Pk-5) across 50 states and four countries representing a range of cultural diversity inclusive of various professions and backgrounds, all of whom sharing one commonality. Besides an interest to learn the BABES philosophy of teaching young children to live healthy, happy lives free of alcohol and other drugs, there is (and still is) unequivocal curiosity relative to the role that the BABES puppets play and their impact on reaching and teaching their young audience. Continue reading WSU School of Social Work Partners with BABES, Students Receive Free Training
By: Crystal Mayo, BABESWORLD Special Projects/Media Specialist
Deb O’ Rah Mitchell with children at a BABES presentation
Deb O’Rah Mitchell and Frederick Smith at a BABES presentation
In 1996, Detroit won an implementation grant to improve the health and safety of its youth and to create “systems change” or, to establish “lasting change” in policy funding and procedures of various Institutions. The Youth Connection was identified as an organization to provide after-school programs and activities that would be accessible with a mandate of reaching 75% of Detroit’s youth. Continue reading Perfect Connection for Detroit’s Youth Connection, BABESWORLD
By: Crystal Mayo, BABES Special Projects and Media Specialist
It was the news that BABES’ CEO and Founder Reverend Dr. Lottie Jones Hood had been waiting for – that SPEC Associates had analyzed both the Program and Comparison Groups’ classroom data and it was proven that the BABES Program could be certified as Evidence-Based.
*”SPEC Associates (Social Program Evaluators and Consultants), Inc., concluded that BABES K-3rd grade curriculum meets the criteria for being evidence-based as set forth in SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices. The evaluation provided Class A Evidence and the evaluation evidence demonstrated an Outcome Evidence Rating of ‘effective’.”
BABES’Godparents are organizations that promote, monitor and nurture the BABES philosophy in a large area (a Region or State)
By: Crystal Mayo, BABES Special Projects and Media Specialist
From BABES Buddy to BABES Godparent — and just as excited about BABES as she was 27 years ago – Eizabeth McGlinn’s BABES journey started back in 1991 at the Atlantic County Council on Alcoholism in Northfield, New Jersey where she worked as a Prevention Specialist and was also a BABES Buddy. Continue reading Godparents: The Heart of BABES – Meet BABES’ Godparent Elizabeth McGlinn
By: Crystal Mayo
BABES Special Projects and Media Specialist
It was lesson eight of BABES’ Evidence Based training for Program Group students and students were graduating – they had completed all the lessons.
Presenters Yvonne Knox and Katrina Dixon waited in the office at Hutchinson Elementary School for the bell to ring for class change. Once I walked into the office, I noticed Knox talking to a student who had apparently been sent to the office for bad behavior.
By: Crystal Mayo
BABES Special Projects and Media Specialist
Dr. Carol Carter
One of the first things that I asked Dr. Carol Carter was “where did the name Sunshine come from – and why SUNSHINE BABES?” In an ecstatic voice full of pride, she answered, “The sun represents the heightened aspirations of man … sunshine symbolizes light, warmth and direction.”
Understandably, the sunshine can bring happiness and joy and even warm feelings of hope, but as we all know, just as the sunshine brings brightness, dreary days and dark nights can block the strongest rays of sunshine in one’s life.
In 1989, in Long Island, New York, unacquainted single moms Carter and Tamara Pelosi’s lives weren’t so sunny and bright rather, as they both recall, too often “dark and dreary.”
… And this is their story …
Continue reading Organization Beams with 25 Years of BABES SUNSHINE
Article written by Crystal Mayo Babes Special Projects, Media
When BethAnne FitzPatrick called BABESWORLD Home last month inquiring about the purchase of some training videos and began to share her Babes journey, I literally got goose bumps.
I placed her call on speaker for Founder Reverend Dr. Lottie Jones Hood to listen in. Less than one minute into the conversation, I glanced over at Reverend Lottie with a reassuring look that the 40 year Babes journey is still on track and the magic of Babes is still very much alive after 17 years. Continue reading The Gift of BABES Keeps Giving
