West Virginia’s first-ever mobile children’s play therapy bus is ready to head up the hills and hollers and run the backroads and byways of southern West Virginia.
Ivy, The Play Therapy Bus, will drive directly into many of the Mountain State’s most remote areas to bring loving care to what is thought to be thousands of WV children suffering the emotional scars of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, according to Ivy’s owner, Beth Hughes, the head of West Virginia Power of Play Therapy Center.
You can tour Ivy The Play Therapy Bus and meet Ms. Hughes and some of the clinicians she is training in play therapy this Wednesday, June 24th, at 2 pm at the Children’s Home Society, 205 Center Street in Princeton WV.
Ms. Hughes, who grew up in Boone County, has returned home to the Mountain State to open the West Virginia Power of Play Therapy Training Center. Beth is a nationally recognized and highly sought after Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor, Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and Certified Trauma Therapist.
Ms. Hughes has spent the past two decades in practice in Alabama specializing in treating traumatized children and their families how to tap into the child’s first language, play, to assist children in transitioning from victims of post-traumatic trauma to post-traumatic survivors who actually thrive despite what they have endured.
Her purpose and that of Ivy The Play Therapy Bus is two-fold: to travel into remote Southern West Virginia communities to work with the kids there, and also to train local mental health care clinicians and school counselors to become credentialed as Registered Play Therapists or becoming more informed in the use of play therapy to help children.
“Children can often only communicate what’s happening to them and get the help they need to overcome it through play therapy with a trained clinician-someone who can get down on the floor with a child and interact with them at their level. In West Virginia, we deal with a tragically large number of children who either have no active parents at all or have parents with serious drug and alcohol addiction, sexual trauma, extreme poverty, and more who would never be able to come into town to be seen. So, we’ll have Ivy the Play Therapy Bus go to them! Plus, we’ll be training social workers, therapists, and school counselors on how to incorporate play therapy in those communities. Like the old saying goes, if you give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; when you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. That’s how we aim to make real, lasting change,” said Ms. Hughes, who financed and conceptualized the custom remodel of Ivy completely on her own.
For more information, to arrange a tour of Ivy The Play Therapy Bus or to schedule an interview with Beth Hughes from the West Virginia Power of Play Therapy Center, contact Allen Media Strategies Burke Allen/ Shaili Priya at (304) 989-3360 or email burke@allenmediastrategies.com/shaili@allenmediastrategies.com
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Our client Richard V. Battle in conversation with #SammyChioda, New Mexico Hall of Famer with #MilleniumMediaInc on the importance of common sense in chaotic times! Listen to the interview here
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‘Phoenix, Oregon’ will be available on video on demand starting June 1.
The film was scheduled to open in theaters nationwide March 20th just as all theaters were being forced to close due to concerns over coronavirus. Rather than shelve the movie indefinitely, the “Phoenix, Oregon” creative team quickly pivoted to create America’s very first “Theatrical-At-Home” screening process.
Moviegoers were encouraged via social media posts to purchase a “ticket” for a one-time showing of the film at www.phoenixoregonmovie.com at a bargain matinee price of just $6.50. All proceeds were then split with the shuttered theaters who had planned to show the movie before Covid-19. That successful “do well by doing good” initiative stuck a chord with appreciative movie fans and led to an additional very successful theatrical-at-home fundraiser for Oregon restaurant workers sidelined by the pandemic, which quickly raised thousands of dollars on their behalf.
Our #TakeoutAndAMovie partnership with the Oregon Hospitality Foundation formerly ORLAFoundation made national news last night on CBS News! Virtual tickets still available through the end of today! https://phoenixoregonmovie.com/takeout
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Innovative Mobile Children’s Play Therapy Center Hits The Road In Southern West Virginia
/in AMS Intel Page /by Allen Media StrategiesWest Virginia’s first-ever mobile children’s play therapy bus is ready to head up the hills and hollers and
run the backroads and byways of southern West Virginia.
Ivy, The Play Therapy Bus, will drive directly into many of the Mountain State’s most remote areas to bring loving care to what is thought to be thousands of WV children suffering the emotional scars of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, according to Ivy’s owner, Beth Hughes, the head of West Virginia Power of Play Therapy Center.
Ms. Hughes, who grew up in Boone County, has returned home to the Mountain State to open the West Virginia Power of Play Therapy Training Center. Beth is a nationally recognized and highly sought after Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor, Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and Certified Trauma Therapist.
Ms. Hughes has spent the past two decades in practice in Alabama specializing in treating traumatized children and their families how to tap into the child’s first language, play, to assist children in transitioning from victims of post-traumatic trauma to post-traumatic survivors who actually thrive despite what they have endured.
“Children can often only communicate what’s happening to them and get the help they need to overcome it through play therapy with a trained clinician-someone who can get down on the floor with a child and interact with them at their level. In West Virginia, we deal with a tragically large number of children who either have no active parents at all or have parents with serious drug and alcohol addiction, sexual trauma, extreme poverty, and more who would never be able to come into town to be seen. So, we’ll have Ivy the Play Therapy Bus go to them! Plus, we’ll be training social workers, therapists, and school counselors on how to incorporate play therapy in those communities. Like the old saying goes, if you give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; when you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. That’s how we aim to make real, lasting change,” said Ms. Hughes, who financed and conceptualized the custom remodel of Ivy completely on her own.
For more information, to arrange a tour of Ivy The Play Therapy Bus or to schedule an interview with Beth Hughes from the West Virginia Power of Play Therapy Center, contact Allen Media Strategies Burke Allen/ Shaili Priya at (304) 989-3360 or email burke@allenmediastrategies.com/shaili@allenmediastrategies.com
Steve Earle on WSAZ Channel 3
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Dreama Denver on The Alison Arngram Show
/in AMS Intel Page /by Allen Media StrategiesOur client and pal Dreama Denver’s amazing interview talking about things that make us feel good! Listen to her nostalgic and feel-good interview with #AlisonArngram known for her role as Nellie Oleson on the NBC television series Little House on the Prairie.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=3183554868402045&ref=watch_permalink
Richard V Battle with Hall of Famer Sammy Chioda with Millenium Media Inc.
/in AMS Intel Page /by Allen Media StrategiesThe 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has thrust everyone globally into a common, unsettling place. No one alive has faced such a universal health threat previously. Although we all face the same menace, there will be a variety of responses and results from the experience.
Our client Richard V. Battle in conversation with #SammyChioda, New Mexico Hall of Famer with #MilleniumMediaInc on the importance of common sense in chaotic times! Listen to the interview here
Get a copy of Richard’s latest book ‘Conquering Life’s Course: Common Sense in Chaotic Times’ on Amazon
Steve Earle on 580 Live WCHS on the Release of his New Album
/in AMS Intel Page /by Allen Media StrategiesThe album centers on the non-union Upper Big Branch coal mine explosion that killed twenty-nine men in that state in 2010, making it one of the worst mining disasters in American history. The UMWA’s report on the UBB disaster is here: here: https://www.scribd.com/document/70229968/United-Mine-Workers-Report.
Listen to Steve in conversation with Dale Cooper on 580WCHS
Movie ‘Phoenix, Oregon’ CBS Weekend News
/in AMS Intel Page /by Allen Media StrategiesOur client, Phoenix, Oregon #TakeoutAndAMovie partnership with the Oregon Hospitality Foundation formerly ORLAFoundation made national news on CBS News! We are proud to be a part of this fabulous team of movie makers who are doing well by doing good!
‘Phoenix, Oregon’ will be available on video on demand starting June 1.
The film was scheduled to open in theaters nationwide March 20th just as all theaters were being forced to close due to concerns over coronavirus. Rather than shelve the movie indefinitely, the “Phoenix, Oregon” creative team quickly pivoted to create America’s very first “Theatrical-At-Home” screening process.
Moviegoers were encouraged via social media posts to purchase a “ticket” for a one-time showing of the film at www.phoenixoregonmovie.com at a bargain matinee price of just $6.50. All proceeds were then split with the shuttered theaters who had planned to show the movie before Covid-19. That successful “do well by doing good” initiative stuck a chord with appreciative movie fans and led to an additional very successful theatrical-at-home fundraiser for Oregon restaurant workers sidelined by the pandemic, which quickly raised thousands of dollars on their behalf.