Plan of Action

Our social, educational, and community experiences propel us to offer programs and services with relevant resources that people can access in real time. We provide services in Pulaski and Bradley counties in Arkansas. Our guiding principles are empowerment, mentorship, and social emotional learning. Our goal is to change family and community dynamics, one family at a time.

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​We provide a quality Summer Enrichment Program (SEP) in Warren, Arkansas. The SEP's host site is the Union Hill Church in Warren. Our program operated in summer 2018 and summer 2019. Our focus for summer 2018 was literacy enrichment, technology integration, and utilizing library services. The focus for summer 2019 was career development and college tours coupled with gaining insight from professional speakers in their community.   

 

Our most recent event was our Inaugural Self-Love Conference that was held on Saturday, October 12, 2019. The host site was First Baptist Church - Main Street in North Little. The conference was FREE and open to everyone ages 5 and up. Lunch was catered by Smoke’N Joe BBQ. All conference participants received a “Self-Love” t-shirt. It was a family-friendly conference. Workshops were age appropriate. Workshop topics were mental health, bullying, and substance abuse. The conference identified connections between mental illness and substance abuse, bullying, and social emotional learning. Most, importantly, it promoted our “Self-Love” movement. We know that when we truly love ourselves, we care and share more. Undeniably, we love others more in unconditional boundaries. We treat others with respect. We treat them the way that we want to be treated, as that’s with a whole lot of love.  

 

Mental health professionals, educators, and community professionals facilitated workshops in an all-day event. The presenters and speakers invoked attendees to interact in a more socially acceptable way, increase awareness of behaviors that are beneficial to emotional and physical well-being, and decrease self-inflicting negative behaviors. We addressed the cycle of abuse, trauma, and/or negative experiences that are prevalent in our day to day lives. We suggested positive ways to help them move past hurt and create new ways of thinking and behaving that are healthy and viable for ourselves, our families, our communities, and society.

The keynote speaker was Arkansas Teacher of the Year, Stacey McAdoo. Our guest opening speaker was Jamaican Olympian and Entrepreneur, Dominique Blake. Core Dance, an internationally recognized, award-winning contemporary dance organization based in Houston, TX and Atlanta/Decatur, GA, brought passion for dance and healing to our conference in their performance of if…a memoir. The Writeous Poets along with Ron McAdoo entertained us with their poetic energy and words of power. Two licensed clinical social workers were on site to address any needs for possible immediate mental health services and/or guidance and helpful resources.

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Glancing into 2020, we have a long list of planned programs that our families and communities need. We are an organization with a huge heart and vision. However, our organizational budget is relatively small. We are humbly requesting your financial support. Click the donate button and share in this vision that has been placed in our hearts and our organization. Your donations allow us to to offer various programs to our participants at little or no cost.

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​BOHEMIA Cares is a tax-exempt, publicly supported organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, that is incorporated and registered in Arkansas. We will mail a donation receipt for your contribution. 

 

​Thanks in advance for donating. It assures us that you understand and agree with our vision. It also verifies that you really care about our families and communities that we serve.

 

SEP Sponsors & Donors

  1. Walmart

  2. Crain Hyundai – North Little Rock

  3. Potlatch Deltic Corporation – Warren

  4. Everett Martindale

  5. Union Bank – Monticello

  6. Healing Waters Outreach Center

  7. Buffalo Soldiers Motorcycle Club

  8. Mid-Ark Utilities

  9. Holiday Inn Express – Monticello

  10. Atwood’s Ranch & Home

  11. Dr. Heard, Central Arkansas Family Dentistry

  12. Huddle House – Monticello

  13. Friends of BOHEMIA Cares

  14. *Partnered with Warren Public Library and Warren Health Department

 

Self-Love Conference Sponsors & Donors

  1. Walmart

  2. Acxiom

  3. Graffiti Apparel

  4. Consolidated Construction, Inc.

  5. Dr. Moffett, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Associates, LTD.

  6. Dr. James Phelan, Phelan Orthodontics

  7. Dr. Brent Sprinkle, Prolo Little Rock

  8. Arkansas Graphics, Inc.

  9. Fast Signs

  10. Friends of BOHEMIA Cares

  11. *Partnered with Dr. Gayle Seymour, Associate Dean of the College of Fine Arts & Communication, University of Central Arkansas