7 Years

Tim Revello

Valentine Chocolate Dipped Pretzel Rods for Valentines Day

Staff Anniversaries in December

Crosspoint Human Services Board of Directors

Chairman Maurie Miller

Vice Chairman Mark Denman

Secretary

Rose Butler

Treasure Terry Tate

Jim Anderson Wendy Barnes

Nate Byram John Drews John Hart

Stan Hogsett Janet Martin Terry Miles

Molly Nicholson Pat O’Shaughnessy

Tammy Wilson

Executive Director Chad Hays

210 Ave C

Danville, Il 61832

217-442-3200 217-442-8471 TTY 217-442-7460 Fax

Crosspoint Human Services Employee

Newsletter To The Point

Inside this issue:

November/December 2019

Page 2 Y’s Buys Thrift Shop Staff Birthdays Vocational Program Information Page 3 New Faces Page 4 GOTCHA’s Page 5 Y’s Soup Kitchen Holiday Tree Page 6 Crosspoint Housing in Danville Page 7 Payroll Calendar Amazon Smile Page 8 TB Testing CPR & First Aid Training Movie Basket Winner Wreath Winner Candy Guess Winner Thought for the Month Days Crosspoint Closed in 2020

5 Years

Andy Acord

8 Years

Cher Pollock

19 Years

Sue Meeker

24 Years

Mary Potts

11 Years

Jeanine Black Vanetta Harvey

The Employee Recognition Committee will be tak-ing orders in January for Chocolate Dipped Pretzel Rods.

Price will be $1.00 for a package of two chocolate dipped pretzel rods.

*This is how the Employee Recognition Committee sponsors the candy guess games and the gift cards for the winners of the GOTCHA’s each month.

This is a great way of showing your co-workers or family how much you appreciate them. They will be delivered on Friday, February 14.

Be watching your mailbox for your order form

1 Year

Selina Johnson Jaeya Lee

2 Years

Tia Dye Jenelle Neuffer Kim Roundtree

3 Years

Shurley Freeman Steve Skimehorn

4 Years

Katrina Beinborn

6 Years

Michele Warren

25 Years

Lisa Rhodes

38 Years

Debra Rhoton

Staff Anniversaries in January

Page 2 To The Point

Crosspoint Human Services Directors and Supervisors

Medical Director Dr. Bumyong Lee

Clinical Director Lisa Rhodes

Director Nursing And Accreditation

Lisa Rhodes

Recovery Services, PSR And Crisis Intervention

Michelle Nelson - Director Vanetta Harvey

Alice O’Neil-Hoskins Susan Perkins

Residential Services Lisa Rhodes - Director

Sue Meeker

Developmental Services Cheryl Pichon Debra Rhoton Jacqui Collins

Human Resources Sheryl Baumeister - Director

Maintenance Gary Miller - Director

Administrative Services Michelle Glines - Director

Sonna Rodgers

Y Programs Cher Pollock - Director

Shelter Services

Early Learning Center Cindy Montgomery

Crosspoint’s Y’s Buys Thrift Store

208 N. Jackson (Right Behind the Y)

(217) 709-0331 Business Hours

Monday - Thursday 9:00 am - 4:30 pm Closed Friday’s

Donations are accepted and welcomed. You may drop off your donations during business

hours at the back door of the shop.

Staff Birthdays in December

Vocational Program Information Do you know of a person served that thinks finding a job in Danville is impossible? Do you know of a person served that has difficulty keeping a job because of their disa-bility? Crosspoint Human Services’ Individual Placement and Support Program can help them change the impossible to POSSIBLE. Our Employment Specialists can assist with identifying a job that will best match their interests, situation and skills set. Other services include resume building, improving in-terview skills, assistance with completing applications, meeting hiring managers, follow-up services, and job retention training. If you have any questions, please call Vanetta Harvey, Vocation Supervisor, at 442-3200 ext 110 for more information or to make a referral.

Lars Badgley 12/01

Lana Douglas 12/03

Mike Jones 12/06

Alicia Moore 12/08

Damon Smith 12/08

Misty Johnson 12/09

Cynthia Neal 12/14

Nichole Steinsdoerfer 12/21

Levi Farren 12/22

Zoey Zhang 12/28

Falicia Cox 12/30

Kendra Westfall 12/30

Susan Gale 1/01

Sue Meeker 1/01

Kris Kizer 1/02

Chad Hays 1/05

Tania Wynn 1/08

Dr. Lee 1/20

Mariann Mariage 1/24

Staff Birthdays in January

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New Faces

Accredited By: Council On Accreditation of Ser-vices for Families and Children

Licensed By:

Illinois Department of Human Services and Illinois Department

of Public Health

Crosspoint Human Services has been serving Vermilion County since 1980 by consolidating the services of the Vermilion Mental Health and Developmental Cen-

ter, incorporated in 1955, and the Retarded Children’s Center,

incorporated in 1964

Vision Statement

Crosspoint Human Services believes that all people should have every opportunity to real-ize their highest possible level

for a productive and healthy life in their community.

Mission Statement

Crosspoint provides quality hu-man services in a competent

and reliable fashion to individu-als, families and the community.

Crosspoint Human Services

210 Ave C

Danville, IL 61832

Phone: (217) 442-3200

Fax: (217) 442-7460

Email: Crosspoint@crosspointhumanservices.org

Shane Rowe Director Maintenance

November 21, 2019

Amy Ortiz Residential Technician

November 21, 2019

Sharisse Noble Residential Technician

November 21, 2019

Jessica Zindars ELC Teacher Aide November 21, 2019

Jacqui Collins GOTCHA’d by Deb Rhoton, “You girls saved the day-coming to L.D./me when we needed help-keeping your sense of humor and being so supportive! We say ‘Thank You!!’” Falicia Cox GOTCHA’d by Elaine Carlson, “You are all great teachers and when you pull together as a team, it’s dynamite.” Lisa Delbridge GOTCHA’d by Rhonda Parrish, “You have made a great day shift person. You make everything run smoothly. Thanks for your help when I was sick.” Elizabeth Durgan GOTCHA’d by Elaine Carlson, “You are all great teachers and when you pull together as a team, it’s dynamite.” Shelby Foley GOTCHA’d by Elaine Carlson, “You are all great teachers and when you pull together as a team, it’s dynamite.” Skilea Hall GOTCHA’d by Elaine Carlson, “You are all great teachers and when you pull together as a team, it’s dynamite.” Keanna January GOTCHA’d by Elaine Carlson, “You are all great teachers and when you pull together as a team, it’s dynamite.” Selina Johnson GOTCHA’d by Elaine Carlson, “You are all great teachers and when you pull together as a team, it’s dynamite.” Rebekah Keeling GOTCHA’d by Elaine Carlson, “You are all great teachers and when you pull together as a team, it’s dynamite.” Linda McLaughlin & Staff at Y GOTCHA’d by Vanetta Harvey, “You are angels! Thank you for all your work planning, setting up and running the soup kitchen!! It was great.” Sarah Meece GOTCHA’d by Elaine Carlson, “You are all great teachers and when you pull together as a team, it’s dynamite.” Tammy Moore GOTCHA’d by Rhonda Parrish, “You are a really good team player. Thank you for assisting me when I was down.” Vicki Neal GOTCHA’d by Elaine Carlson, “You are all great teachers and when you pull together as a team, it’s dynamite.” Rosi Perez GOTCHA’d by Elaine Carlson, “You are all great teachers and when you pull together as a team, it’s dynamite.” Cheryl Pichon GOTCHA’d by Deb Rhoton, “You girls saved the day-coming to L.D./me when we needed help-keeping your sense of humor and being so supportive! We say ‘Thank You!!’” Sarah Presnell GOTCHA’d by Elaine Carlson, “Sarah is a great teacher. She goes above and beyond in her job both in the good and bad times.” Lisa Rhodes GOTCHA’d by Deb Rhoton, “You girls saved the day-coming to L.D./me when we needed help-keeping your sense of humor and being so supportive! We say ‘Thank You!!’” Sonna Rodgers GOTCHA’d by Nikki Powell, “Thank you for all your help, understanding and for being so pa-tient with me. I appreciate you so much, you are the greatest!” Kymmie Weiser GOTCHA’d by Elaine Carlson, “You are all great teachers and when you pull together as a team, it’s dynamite.” Mark Woods GOTCHA’d by Deb Rhoton, “Saved the day with rescue and helped L.D. with a chair repair! She’s very grateful. ‘He’s a good man!’” Tania Wynn GOTCHA’d by Elaine Carlson, “You are all great teachers and when you pull together as a team, it’s dynamite.”

AND THE WINNER IS …. SONNA RODGERS!!!

Thank you, Sonna, and all the GOTCHA nominees, for going the “extra mile” for Your co-workers and persons served! We appreciate you!!!

From: The Employee Recognition Committee

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The Crosspoint tree at the Fes-tival of Trees was decorated by the residents of English and Franklin. It is now located out-side of the Crisis door across from the reception area at 210 Ave. C.

If you have any questions about the subjects Chad talked about in the meetings in November please, direct your questions to Mona Kennett or send her an email.

Questions?

Y’s Soup Kitchen

Crosspoint Housing in Danville

Did you know that Crosspoint Human Services owns and operates all sorts of housing throughout Danville? Why do you need to know this? Because YOU, a person you serve or

someone you know may want or need quality affordable or subsidized housing that is professionally man-aged and maintained.

Here is a little bit about each building:

1005 N. Oak St., Danville, IL

Known as Oak Street Apartments, these one bedroom garden style apartments provide comfortable and af-fordable living. The eight apartments, five on each side of the courtyard, are designed for one to two inhab-itants. Two apartments are handicap accessible. Rent is $375 per month and tenant pays electric and wa-ter.bills. Anyone with a clean criminal, credit and landlord history can live here. A one year lease is re-quired. Currently, all units are rented but we will accept applicants for the wait list.

1210 Holiday Dr., Danville, IL

These are 4 efficiency style apartments located next to Danville Independent Living Center (DILC). TheseHUD Section 202/8 apartments are set aside for people with disabilities per the HUD definition of disability. People with no income or extremely low income qualify to live here and rent is calculated per a HUD for-mula that is never more than 30% of a person's income. Criminal and credit checks will be performed on perspective tenants. And, the utilities are covered by HUD! A pplications are being taken to add to our wait list.

506 Sheridan, Danville, IL

This two story building holds eight 2-bedroom apartments and is also a HUD Section 202/8 building set aside for people with disabilities. At Sheridan Apartments, two single people share the common areas but have their own bedrooms. People living at Sheridan can receive services from The Crosspoint Care Coordination team.

324 N. Vermilion, Danville, IL

Applications for any of the apartments are available at the Property Manager office inside The New Holland or any Crosspoint location. We will be happy to address any questions you have so give us a call. we can be reached at 217-443-5333.

Pay Pay Payroll Period Total cycle Date All Crosspoint Staff Days

1 01/10/20 12/19/19-1/1/20 14

2 01/24/20 1/2/20-1/15/20 14

3 02/07/20 1/16/20-1/29/20 14

4 02/21/20 1/30/20-2/12/20 14

5 03/06/20 2/13/20-2/26/20 14

6 03/20/20 2/27/20-3/11/20 14

7 04/03/20 3/12/20-3/25/20 14

8 04/17/20 3/26/20-4/8/20 14

9 05/01/20 4/9/20-4/22/20 14

10 05/15/20 4/23/20-5/6/20 14

11 05/29/20 5/7/20-5/20/20 14

12 06/12/20 5/21/20-6/3/20 14

13 06/26/20 6/4/20-6/17/20 14

14 07/10/20 6/18/20-7/1/20 14

15 07/24/20 7/2/20-7/15/20 14

16 08/07/20 7/16/20-7/29/20 14

17 08/21/20 7/30/20-8/12/20 14

18 09/04/20 8/13/20-8/26/20 14

19 09/18/20 8/27/20-9/9/20 14

20 10/02/20 9/10/20-9/23/20 14

21 10/16/20 9/24/20-10/7/20 14

22 10/30/20 10/8/20-10/21/20 14

23 11/13/20 10/22/20-11/4/20 14

24 11/27/20 11/5/20-11/18/20 14

25 12/11/20 11/19/20-12/2/20 14

26 12/25/20 12/3/20-12/16/20 14

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To shop at AmazonSmile simply go to smile. Amazon.com from the web browser on your computer or mobile device. You may also want to add a bookmark to smile. Amazon.com to make it even easier to return and start your shopping at AmazonSmile.

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You can choose from over one million eligible 501©(3) public charitable organizations.

If your selected charity does not register to participate, becomes ineligi-ble, or re- quests to be removed from the program, you will have a chance to select a different charity to received the accrued do- nations that have not yet been disbursed to your charity. If you do not select a different charity, the accrued donations will be distibued to other organizations receiving donations.

The AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price from your eligible AmazonSmile purchases. The purchase price is the amount paid for the items minus any rebates and excluding shipping and handling, gift-wrapping fees, taxes, or service charges. From time tto time, we may offer special, limited time promotions that increase the do-nation amount on one or more products or services or provide for addi-tional donations to charitable organizations. Special terms and re-strictions may apply. Please see the relevant promotion for complete de-tails.

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Wreath Raffle Congratulations to

Rosi Perez Y-Early Learning Center

Rosi won the wreath that was raffled off on Friday, December 13.

TB Testing

Tuesday, January 7, 2020 8:45 - 9:15 a.m.

Tuesday, January 21, 2020 3:30 - 4:00 p.m.

In Human Resources

Michelle Glines Ke’Osha Groves Sherry Huffman

Jaeya Lee Vicki Neal

Michelle Nelson Mary Potts

Shirley Shafer Kendra Westfall

Zoey Zhang Jessica Zindars

First Aid Training

Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020 11:00 AM

Group Room, 210 Ave C

Clara Davis Andrew Dewey Shirley Maloy

Michelle Nelson Alice O’Neil-Hoskins

Cher Pollock Debra Rhoton

Nichole Steinsdoerfor

CPR Training

Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020 9:30 AM

Group Room, 210 Ave C

Andy Acord Cheryl Allison Jeanine Black

Clara Davis Andrew Dewey Michelle Glines Bethany Haun

Chad Hays Jaeya Lee

Linda McLaughlin Michelle Nelson

Alice O’Neil-Hoskins Cher Pollock Tim Revello

Debra Rhoton Damon Smith

Michele Warren

Days in 2020 Crosspoint will be Closed

New Years Day, Wednesday, January 1 Presidents Day, Monday, February 17 Memorial Day, Monday, May 25 Independence Day, Friday, July 3 Labor Day, Monday, September 7 Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 26 Day After Thanksgiving, Friday, November 27 Christmas Eve, Thursday, December 24 Christmas Day, Friday, December 25

TB Testing &

CPR & First Aid

Thought for the Month

You have one life to live. It is yours. Own it, claim it, live it, do the best you can with it.

Hillary Clinton Politician, Diplomat, Lawyer

Winner of the Lantern filled with Reese’s Peanut Butter cups is, Sonna Rodgers. Sonna guessed 108 there were 111.

Congratulations

Sonna