Happy New Year! We want to wish our supporters and families a wonderful new year. We also hope our spouses will take advantage of our upcoming virtual workshops. We are thrilled to work with our friends again from Bank of America's Better Money Habits Team and discuss tips and strategies to Deal with Debt. Additionally, we have our own certified Coach Susan Hannifin-MacNab to share her professional and personal insight on Parenting After Loss. Both of these workshops are focused on helping our families get their questions answered and addressing personal challenges. We look forward to presenting these sessions and are working on future events. If you are not able to attend either workshop you can view the recordings. We also encourage our spouses to reach out and make an appointment with our Financial/Resource Counselor or look into our partnership with Hiring Our Heroes. Make this your year to start a new path and embrace all of the opportunities available to you.

For our supporters, we could not run any of our programs, provide workshops, or our events without your help. As such we would like to thank our friends from the Patriot Military Family Foundation for their assistance with our North Carolina families and recent grant. We are always open to suggestions regarding support and appreciate any and all help. We are looking for Mentors to work with our Gold Star/Surviving Students who are currently enrolled in college or trade school. Your time can make a real impact!

Our Team is constantly working to provide specific tangible support for our families. We base our programs, events, and opportunities around the support that will best help spouses and children create a new stable path after enduring the loss of their service member. As such, we invite our Registered spouses to complete our latest survey. If you are not registered please get in touch with our Admin@thesugarbearfoundation.org.

For our spouses and friends who would like information on any of our programs, support, or mentoring please contact Admin@thesugarbearfoundation.org.

To our families, we are here for you always! To our supporters thank you for helping us not only sustain our programs but also continue to grow and give back in Sugar Bear's honor.

Thank you,

Jennifer Carazo
Gold Star wife/President