Welcome Home Kids Cultural Center Mission-Vision Statement:

No matter what challenges our children must face in life, our children deserve a potential opportunity to enjoy their lives, and to find meaning and purpose for their lives, as people now and for years to come. They deserve this opportunity where ever they live, whether they live in our local communities where they live; or, whether they live as our residential children, recovering from AIDS in our future homes for them.

One of the most important beliefs our staff has to share is the belief that each person has value, and each person’s value is an important contribution to give to the world, where ever he or she is. And, we envision that this is true, no matter what this person experiences. Thus, it is our purpose to help our children develop their full potential, by discovering the value each and every one of them has in life and in the relationships with others in their world. We want them to know that they really are important, even if they face some difficult situations that often discourage them and make them sad.

Equally important to our staff is the fact that our children have something to teach us about our own values as participators in our community. Our children can teach us this, regardless of their physical, emotional, mental or other forms of disabilities with which they are challenged. To accomplish this, Our Mission will take the following forms:

First, we hope to present positive role models from our communities to help us to teach our children to discover these values, which they possess in themselves. These models will show our children how to use and to discover the skills learnt from this first experience. We hope to enlist our models from our successful persons in the community, as well as role models from programs involving our disadvantaged programs that exist in our communities. These experiences will help our children to learn that they have value to give, despite their disadvantages no matter what they are.

Next, we also plan to invite other people from different cultural experiences to share how these experiences help them to achieve their values of courage, integrity, and honesty, helped them to overcome the challenges they faced in the sharing of what they discovered through their personal stories and talents they share with the larger human communities, in which they live.

This is demonstrated in the testimonials that will be shared on this website. Our testimonials will be used to share how our children grow through these activities. And they will help our community to see the values we have to offer, as our children are growing into responsive and mature people in the future, despite their challenges in life, especially our future residential children, challenged with the disease of AIDS or other dehabilitating diseases. Our local museums have value in this work. We expect that these exhibits, talks, and activities to take the form of having fun.

There will be exhibits, arts, crafts, stories, and other activities shared from our role models and other successful persons, as well as tutorial programs, designed to improve the self esteem we wish to offer our children in these projects and through these exhibits. Our children will be encouraged to exhibit their own art and craft forms as examples of what they learned in our cultural exhibits, and through our speakers.

We expect to work along side of existing programs already present in our communities to improve our children’s value in life, improve their knowledge about the dangers of chemical abuse, or other dangers that our children face as they grow in our respective communities. As we experience our efforts, we recognize that we, too, are learning through our efforts to accomplish our mission.

If our readers wish to volunteer their stories, their talents, and other successful experiences, we hope that they will choose to volunteer what they have to share with our children. On this website, we have a volunteer form one can use to accomplish this. In the future, we expect to build a cultural center on the premises of our Welcome Home Kids Residential Center, but until them, we are grateful for being permitted to use offered local facilities to accomplish our work. Thank you for having the same hopes that we have in our children.

Welcome Home Kids Cultural Staff.

Welcome Home Kids Centre Cultural Heritage Museum is announcing their first event called Free Family Day Event, scheduled on Saturday, May 19th from 2:30 to 4:30 PM., to be held at the Valencia Spectrum Athletic Club, 24525 Town Center Drive, in Valencia, CA.

The goal of this event is to help our children discover what value they have to give to others and the theme is "Kids giving to kids. AND to have fun doing this.

Our Children will learn to discover the value they have by drawing a flag that will best describe their discovery and also design for fun, a flag for the Valencia Spectrum Club and Welcome Home Kids presently in a contest. Entries for the contest are due for our judges by May 7, 2007

Activities will be supervised by the staff at the Valencia Spectrum Club to help them learn the value of Physical Fitness in helping our children to succeed in life. They will also consist in supervised physical games or activities, and some talks given by the staff. The goal here is to increase our kids self esteem as well.

Each child shall be eligible for various prizes from the Valencia Spectrum Athletic Club. And no child will leave empty handed.

Please see the staff for an application for your child to attend, from The Athletic Club itself, on contact us at info@welcomehomekids.org and leave an email, where we can mail you an application form. there are no fees and every child is welcomed, accompanied by their parent, or legal guardian Space is limited so
act quickly, please.

Children are to be from 7 to 10 years of age

You may also call Ryan at the club at 661-255-2212 or Welcome Home Kids Centre at 242-2046 and please leave a message for us to return you call

We look forward to seeing you there!

Welcome Home Kids Centre and Valencia Spectrum Athletic Club

The Ring Dance

Recently, two of our board members attended a special program offered by the San Bernardino County Museum involving a presentation put on by a Hopi Indian Man. This person responded to an invitation to put on his program for the children in the local areas of the community this Museum serves. The purpose of this exhibit was to allow this young man to share his talent and his value to the local community and to share the story on how he became involved in presenting the Ring Dance to children everywhere. He traveled around the United States to show how a poor Native American Indian discovered the value he had, despite his former inability to read and to write and to show how he improved upon his self esteem as a person in the family of human beings. He learned that through the sharing of this particular cultural event in his tribe, he was able to inspire children to face their own fears and to bring out both to themselves and to others, the potential value they have as persons in their own respective communities and that this lesson can be learned cross culturally to any one interested in his exhibit. He demonstrated how the values of courage, determination, dedication and the abandonment of fear not only helped him to overcome his own doubts, but also helped him to develop the potential he had by sharing himself and his native dance to children everywhere.

Dressed in his native costume, appropriate to his culture, this young Native American Indian took 100 brass rings and mastered the art of keeping all of them moving at the same time, accompanied by the native chants and music he uses. Not only was this pleasing to those, who watch him, but the art, the music, the lecture he gave to others, had a positive effect on both the adults and the children, who came to hear about his work and about the special value his talent gave to others.

Then, he invited any child in the audience to come up and to learn the first steps needed to perform the dance. The children were delighted to join him and he helped them to overcome their own doubts about the learning of this skill. He taught them how to focus on the goal to learn the first steps of the dance. He explained to them that the mastery of this first skill could also be used to learn how to overcome any obstacle that faced them in their own lives. He showed them the importance of keeping their bodies fit through supervised physical activities and the importance of learning how to have fun, as they began to master this first important step. He taught them how to discover their own special abilities and their own important interests in seeking to accept any challenge that came their way. The overcoming of any doubt, the courage it takes to practice their skills each day in a consistent way, how the willingness to work with those, who can teach them the skills they need, and how to laugh at the mistakes they first experience are values so important to help them to succeed in anything they put their minds to do. He also taught them the value of studying the art forms or to study the material they needed to know and how to put the knowledge they learn to simple, easy steps that will help them to master their skills and to experience the joy of conquering those doubts that often come from apparent failures they may experience at first, as they seek to achieve their dreams in life. He taught them that the mastery of any desired goal comes to them in stages or in steps and that there are other people in the community that can help them to achieve their goals, if they are open to this process and willing to work with the teachers that they have in life.

Then this speaker asked the children what they wanted to do in life. Each child shared what was important to her or him with the instructor. The Native American Indian guest showed children how to use the skills he or she saw this dancer employed to help them to achieve their goals, step by step, while the other children listened attentively to his advice.

Lastly, he thanked the children for their willingness to allow him to share his story with them and clearly pointed out the value they gave to him, by allowing him to share his story with them He emphasized the importance of this willingness on their part to listen to him and how this interaction helped him to grow as a person in the world. He pointed out that a poor, Native American boy learned what he had to offer to other people and that this encouraged him to work toward a discovery of what that value had to others, in this case, the desire to share that he discovered his special talent for the Ring Dance as a way to share his value of himself to others, even those, who were members of a different culture. The lessons are always the same, he told them. He told them that now, not only can he read and write, but also he is currently in graduate school to complete a Master’s Degree to help him to continue his dream to share that dance with others.

After the event was over, the Museum gave him time to speak to each child who had questions and comments about his work. He also shared with the children those persons, whom the Great Spirit sent them to support them in their own journeys in life and to be thankful and appreciative to these people, their parents, their teachers, their coaches, and even other children have to give them and the importance of learning to take an interest in every human being in their world.

Everyone had a great time, while the children learned the importance that courage, hope, and consistency have for them. They learned how to transfer these new lessons into their own lives.

This is but one example of how our goals will be set, as we learn more and more from the successful people in our world.

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