This time of year can be overwhelming for many people. To help take away some of your stress, we invite you to join us for our most popular Family and Community Liaison workshop of the year featuring an evening of relaxation, de-stressing, and self-care. Come participate in a variety of self-care opportunities for you to enjoy at your own pace. Each participant will receive a small self-care gift and be entered for a chance to win a raffle. Light snacks will be provided. Come and go as you please.

It may seem early to think about your December schedule but this workshop fills up quickly and is earlier in the month than previous years. Register early to avoid missing out!

Registration is required for childcare and workshop participation and space is limited for both. Please register for the workshop (and childcare if needed) by Monday, November 24th. No walk-ins for workshop or childcare.

CAPCO Family Development Program will be helping those in need with Thanksgiving meal baskets again this year. Sign-ups begin on November 3 at CAPCO, 32 North Main St. Cortland.

Families who would like to sign up for assistance with food and/or gifts for the holidays must apply in person on one of three days at

The family application for Toys for Tots 2025 for Cortland County is now open! Please only submit one request per child and remember to add things your child(ren) likes. To sign up your child or for information on where to donate toys please visit:

Did you know that Cortland Loaves and Fishes Empty Bowls' Fundraiser is the source for the majority of the funding used to provide the snackpack program in Homer Central School District's Intermediate, Junior High and High School? (Thank you to CAPCO for sponsoring snackpacks in our Elementary building.) This program is full circle in the truest sense. Homer Central School District helps to sponsor the Empty Bowls fundraiser by having our student artists in Lauren Nels and Brookley Abbate's Junior High art classes create ceramic bowls that are used as soup vessels at the Empty Bowls event. Student artists across Cortland area districts, including Homer, create 250 bowls to donate to this event, lending their talents to this grassroots community and fundraising effort. This event truly speaks to the importance of community in making a difference. This year's Empty Bowls fundraiser will beSaturday November 8th at 6:00-9:00pm at the CRT Downtown.

Loaves and Fishes also hosts free annual holiday dinners in their dining room every November and December.

For more details on the Empty Bowls fundraiser or their free holiday meals visit their website HERE.

If you missed the October Homer Family and Community Liaison workshop on 10/30/2025, NAMI Ending the Silence, you have another opportunity in November!

NAMI Ending the Silence is a 1-hour presentation for adults with middle or high school aged youth in their lives. The presentation includes warning signs, of mental health issues including suicidality, facts and statistics, how to talk with your child about these concerns and make sure you are someone they can trust with discussion of their mental health, as well as how to work with school staff to support your child who may be struggling.

NAMI Fingerlakes is offering this workshop virtually via Zoom quarterly. The next workshop will be offered:

International National Suicide Survivors' Day is celebrated annually in November. Learning how to see the warning signs in young people and lean in to providing them support is the perfect way to honor this intention. Learn more about Survivors of Suicide Loss Day HERE.