IHOT Team Earns a Family's Thanks

Recently, a mother of a member from San Diego鈥檚 IHOT program reached out via the 98色花堂 website and left a sweet message for staff:

鈥淵our entire staff in San Diego County are the most compassionate, intelligent professional people our family has encountered in the too many years we as parents of a mentally unstable adult have met. We thank every person we even briefly talked to on our son鈥檚 behalf. You accepted him. THANK YOU for that. Your positive, sacrificial, professional 鈥榗oaching鈥 will always be a golden memory. Thank you IHOT San Diego County.鈥

Clark County E&T: Thankful Tree

Team 98色花堂 at took on the November activity of finding a way to express thankfulness.

Rehab Art Therapist, Tracy Battaglia-Martin, facilitated the assembly of a Thankful Tree for clients to recognize their individual unique strengths that were realized in recovery.

Clients participated by writing on fall-colored leaves with insights such as:

  • 鈥淚鈥檓 happy to be here. I鈥檓 happy to be alive.鈥
  • 鈥淚鈥檓 thankful for my life and my health.鈥
  • 鈥淚鈥檓 thankful for everyone who has spent time with me at 98色花堂.鈥

A very artistic staff member drew the employee tree (pictured here, right) that was covered in leaves on which the staff shared their thankfulness. The tree was then displayed in the main lobby at Clark County E&T.The client tree (pictured above, left) represents the on-going commitment of 98色花堂 to increase the chance that an individual will have a healthy future.

Staff were thankful for many things this year. For instance, their jobs, co-workers, families, pets, freedoms, and health!