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OUR CSSI MISSION COMES TRUE BECAUSE OF YOU
CELEBRATING AND APPRECIATING YOU!
October - December Longevity Celebration
(date to be announced)
October
Becky B., Finance Director, celebrating 27 years
Henry G., Family Mentoring Coordinator, celebrating 14 years
Albert P., Host Home Provider celebrating 13 years
Eden A., Mentoring Manager, celebrating 8 years
Debora T., Host Home Provider, celebrating 6 years
Nancy M., Family Caregiver, celebrating 6 years
Arthur P.,Host Home Provider, celebrating 1 year
November
Julia N., Mentoring Coordinator, celebrating 27 years
Gloria A., Host Home Provider, celebrating 15 years
Femi A., Host Home Provider, celebrating 11 years
December
Esther A., Host Home Provider, celebrating 26 years
Noldy S., Host Home Provider, celebrating 1 year
Jeanne M., Respite Host Home Provider, celebrating 1 year
CSSI News Corner
CSSI would like to welcome the following Internal Office Staff, Mentoring Coordinators, Family Care Givers and Host Home Providers to our Agency!
(none at this time)
CELEBRATING BIRTHDAYS!
CSSI sends happy birthday wishes for all personnel with birthdays in October, November, and December!
October
Gloria A. - Host Home Provider
Tetta A. - Host Home Provider
Adrianne B. - Host Home Provider
Jackie M. - Host Home Provider
Tunde O. - Respite Host Home Provider
Ida P. - Administrative Assistant
Wendy R. - Family Caregiver
Bimpe S. - Respite Host Home Provider
Anthony S. - Respite Host Home Provider
Cindy W. - Web Designer
Lubna Y. - Host Home Provider
November
Nicole B. - Monitoring Manager
Charles D. - Host Home Provider
Christine F. - Associate Director of Quality Assurance
Lois L. - Family Caregiver
Dagmar N. - Mentoring Manager
Noldy S. - Host Home Provider
December
Melissa N. - Host Home Provider
Fola O. - Host Home Provider
Tiffany S. - Host Home Provider
Spotlight Stories
Ilan Flies to Las Vegas
Ilan told us that he really wanted to take an airplane ride to Las Vegas! His Host Home Provider, together with Ilan, made this happen! Ilan and his Host Home Provider Richard flew to Las Vegas for a three-day excursion. Ilan loved the airplane ride both coming and going.
Once in Las Vegas, he had many highlights. One highlight was riding the Monorail to explore the Las Vegas Strip. This is a modern, fast transportation system that he loved! Another highlight was visiting the Trump Tower. Ilan loved the tall, gold building and enjoyed touring inside as well. Other highlights included shopping in Las Vegas, exploring his wonderful big hotel, and eating in many of the restaurants. He loved every minute and even had time to explore Charleston Peak, the highest point in the Spring Mountains and Clark County, Nevada, standing at 11,916 feet!
Ilan was so happy every minute of his trip! We are very glad that Ilan’s dream came true! A huge thank you goes out to Richard S., Community Support Services, Inc. Host Home Provider, for helping make this happen for Ilan.
Charleston Peak
Photo taken by Stan Shebs
Read about our recent events!
October 30, 2025 Halloween party
This year’s Halloween Party was great fun! Everyone came dressed in their best costumes, ready to celebrate! There was dancing, pumpkin decorating, a Halloween costume contest, and of course—great food, candy, and gift bags.
Everyone had a blast decorating their pumpkins with colorful stickers!
For our Halloween costume contest, we had three wonderful judges: Host Home Provider Debby T., Family Care Giver Lois L., and Mentoring Manager Dagmar N. They selected our top contestants in the following categories: Scariest, Most Creative, Overall Favorite, and Funniest.
Our winners were:
Carrie L. – Overall Favorite
Ryan R. – Scariest
Jamie E. – Most Creative
Chris T. – Funniest
What a tremendous time we all had—everyone truly made this Halloween one to remember!
Our Annual Summer Picnic
This year our summer picnic was held on September 11th, 2025, in the late afternoon and early evening hours. It was a great success in all respects! The attendance was great! The weather was absolutely perfect (in the 70’s) for this fun event! The food was fun and special this year, with burgers, brats and homemade potato salad and coleslaw! The burgers and brats were grilled right there for us, making it even more fun and delicious!
We had three booths that were attended by all throughout the event. There was a tattoo booth, a safari picture booth (with safari backdrop, safari hats and scarves and even some safari animals!), and a bracelet making booth! WOW! The booths were very busy, and everyone walked away with lovely tattoos, fabulous, fun and framed safari pictures, and incredibly beautiful bracelets! There were lots of smiles, laughing, conversation, mingling and just plain FUN! We cannot wait for next year!!!!
2025 CSSI Annual Mountain Retreat
Our CSSI Annual Mountain was held August 26th through August 28th, 2025. We went to Quaker Ridge for a lovely time! Our days included several hikes through the lovely mountains, doing the low ropes course, archery, nighttime campfire with fun food items to roast over the open fire, a hayrack ride, a scavenger hunt and of course, the annual kick ball game! The days were very full and very fun. Everyone laughed, smiled, engaged and enjoyed the mountain air! What a pure joy it was being together in a fun environment like this.
While Quaker Ridge has been our go to for many years, we all agreed a new place could be fun and exciting! Therefore, we have already made our plans for next year, so be on the watch for a new exciting location: Estes Park YMCA of the Rockies! We have already reserved the Pattie Hyde Barclay Group Cabin, featuring 17 bedrooms, 20 bathrooms, triple appliance kitchen, gas grill, decks and a private fire pit! Here’s to the summer of 2025 and we are looking forward to the summer of 2026!
June 2025 Hike
CSSI had an extremely relaxing and fun event during the month of June. On Thursday June 26th we went on a hike around Bible Park, a local park known for its beauty and sporting activities. We broke up into two groups, and while walking, each group was given the suggestion to take photos as a scavenger hunt activity. Each group was given a printout of various themes to be found in the park as one walks. They were encouraged to snap as many photos as they could as they spotted each of the items to be looking out for. It was a great success, as many fun photos were taken and shared. We ended this fun event by coming back together as one large group. We spent this time having water and snacks, as well as catching up with one another. It was a lovely way to end our day together.
Movie Night April 2025
We had a great turnout for CSSI movie night!
The movie we decided to watch together was called "The Wild Robot". The Wild Robot is a cute, animated movie about a robot that is shipwrecked on an island and then builds friendships with the local wildlife animals.
CSSI set the office up to look like a real movie theater! Guests were greeted at the front door with posters on the glass front doors featuring "The Wild Robot". As everyone walked inside the office entryway, they all received a movie ticket to view the movie with, they were then led to the snack bar in the kitchen to get a cute snack bag that was waiting for them. The snack bags were movie-themed on the outside with healthy fun snacks and a water bottle inside to enjoy during the movie. Some people wore their favorite pajamas and slippers and some brought a nice warm blanket to cover up with. It was so comfortable and cozy in our movie theater that we had two people fall asleep! After the movie was over, everyone said they had a great time and loved the movie!
Bingo Night, February 2025
B I N G O! Got me a BINGO!
Those were the words heard throughout the night for our Bingo event. Wonderful prizes, great snacks and time shared together was enjoyed by all of our Community Support Services family!
December 2024 Holiday Party
Our Annual Holiday Party was celebrated December 5th, 2024, at Noonan’s. The party was a HUGE success, with an attendance of nearly 200 people. The people we serve, our families, our personnel and their families, and friends all came together for a very special evening of great music, dancing and yummy food. Klassy K the DJ kept the energy high and fun, with a constant flow of great dancing music! What a wonderful way to prepare for the new year, 2025! Everyone is already excited for next year's party!
READ ABOUT SOME OF OUR PAST FUN EVENTS!
Indonesia Culture Night
October 2024
On October 3rd, 2024 everyone at CSSI was immersed in Indonesia. Our very own Host Home Providers gave all of their energy and skills and creativity to share their culture with all of us. We learned about the Indonesian islands and saw their beauty. We experienced Indonesia’s songs and dance and clothing and many different foods. We learned, we were entertained, we filled our tummies with many new tastes, we danced to the beautiful music, and we all loved our night in Indonesia.
We give huge thanks to our very own Juanita and Lendy, Josina, Debora, and Albert and Ellen for taking the lead to plan this event. They even went so far as to bring clothes from Indonesia for all of our CSSI management team and for many of the people we support! They brought many more of our CSSI family from Indonesia together to work so hard to make this the event of the year! So many helped to organize and cook and plan the details. It was and is so greatly appreciated!!
How special to be able to spend an evening in Indonesia!! It will be forever remembered!!
