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Difficult Conversations As part of our on-going Volunteer Continuing Education series, we are pleased to offer the latest addition: “Difficult Conversations.” In these sessions, we will be exploring those topics which are often difficult to address with your client and the best ways to engage your client on the subject. The format will be an open discussion so come with your questions ready. Please sign up by reply of this email for the sessions you plan to attend! Wednesday, December 8 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. – The Formerly Incarcerated Client Tuesday, December 14 from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. – Transgender Clients Thursday, December 16 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. – Clients Dealing with Domestic Violence

Save the Date – Volunteer Appreciation Night Every year as a “thank you” to all of you remarkable volunteers, Bottomless Closet holds a Volunteer Appreciation Night! This year’s event is taking place Wednesday, January 25 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., and is hosted by one of our illustrious founders – Reva Wurtzburger. We hope to see you all there! Invitation to follow with additional details.

HTML Anyone? Do you have web experience? Are you interested in website design? The Communications Committee wants to hear from you! We are currently looking for volunteers to help with website maintenance, design and updating. If this is something that interests you, please contact Jessica Land at jland@bottomlessclosetnyc.org.

New York City’s New Dirty Words: Bed Bugs… You can’t open a newspaper or turn on the TV these days without hearing about the bed bug epidemic torturing New Yorkers! To help us do our part to prevent any problems, please follow these precautions while sorting clothing: · Be aware of stains that seem unusual. These could be telltale blood spots left by feeding bedbugs. · Pay particular attention to the inside seams, looking for signs of sticky white eggs, shed skins and the bugs themselves. Unfortunately, at this time there is no confirmed method of prevention. Hopefully, with your support and patience we will get through this without incident.

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