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Saturday, 19 July 2008

Elmo’s in town!

ImageSesame Street partners with USO to bring the Muppets to military families at Naval Base San Diego July 18

Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street, and the United Service Organizations (USO) have partnered to bring The Sesame Street Experience for Military Families to 43 military installations across the

Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street, and the United Service Organizations (USO) have partnered to bring The Sesame Street Experience for Military Families to 43 military installations across the country. The free traveling tour will be at Naval Base San Diego in San Diego July 18 with shows at 1 and 3 p.m.  The 60-minute experience will feature a live Muppet performance, giveaways, outreach materials and a group photo framed by the Muppets.
The tour, produced by VEE Corporation, is part of Sesame Workshop's “Talk, Listen, Connect” initiative, the military outreach program that launched in 2006.  This bilingual, multimedia initiative provides support and offers significant resources for military families with young children between the ages of two and five experiencing the effects of deployments, multiple deployments or when a parent returns home due to a combat related injury.  The tour is exclusively for military families. For more information on The Sesame Street Experience for Military Families or Talk, Listen, Connect, visit www.sesamestreet.org/tlc.
"We are very excited and honored to be apart of the Sesame Street Experience for Military Families tour," said Cyndy Padilla, CNRSW Fleet, Family and Child Programs Operations Manager at Naval Base San Diego, "It is a wonderful thing to see this kind of support for families who are sacrificing so much for our country right now."  Padilla added, "Our Military families also serve.  Sesame Street can effectively communicate to an age group of children who are so desperately trying to cope when one or both of their parents are being deployed over and over."
 

 Talk, Listen, Connect: Deployments, Homecomings, Changes seeks to:

    * Reduce the level of anxiety children may experience during homecomings after multiple deployments.
    * Help parents with ways to cope with multiple deployments.
    * Help young children gain an age-appropriate understanding of a parent.s injury by including them and the entire family in the rehabilitation process.
    * Reassure children that they are loved and secure and that together with their families, they can learn new ways of being there for one another and having hope for the future.


"The Sesame Street Experience for Military Families brings the Talk, Listen, Connect DVD and materials to life, and it reaches out directly to the families who face the challenges of military life each day," said Gary E. Knell, President and CEO, Sesame Workshop.  "Our partnership with the USO further extends this initiative.  We're visiting installations across the nation to help these families bond through emotionally difficult times, by providing an educational and entertaining show and outreach activities they can share."
"This is a terrific, ground-breaking new program for military families," said Edward A. Powell, President and CEO of USO World Headquarters. "Our partnership with Sesame Workshop on Talk, Listen, Connect has been a great success and the Sesame Street Experience is a creative new way to deliver even more morale-boosting services and programs to our troops and their families."

About Sesame Workshop:
Sesame Workshop is the nonprofit educational organization that changed television forever with the legendary Sesame Street.  As the single largest informal educator of young children, local Sesame Street programs produced in countries as diverse as South Africa, Bangladesh and India are making a difference in over 120 nations. 
Using proprietary research to create engaging and enriching content, Sesame Workshop produces programs such as Dragon Tales and Pinky Dinky Doo.  In addition, multimedia needs-driven initiatives provide families tools for addressing such issues as children's health, military deployment and emergency preparedness. As a nonprofit organization, product proceeds and philanthropic donations support Sesame Workshop's educational research and creative content for children around the world. 
Learn more at http://www.sesmeworkshop.org.

 
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