10/25/2025
🍂 Fall Festival 2025! 🍂
Once a year, we hit pause on the clinic hustle, close our doors, and open our hearts for a day of laughter, food, and friendship! ❤️
With staff spread across six counties, it’s rare we all get to be together — but when we do, we make it count! This year’s Fall Festival was packed with laughter, great food, and even greater people.
🔥 Chili Cook-Off Champions: 10 brave competitors entered, but Beverly took home the gold for Best Chili!
🍰 Dessert Contest Royalty: Another 10 sweet souls baked their hearts out, but Antonia’s churro cheesecake stole the show (and probably a few hearts).
A HUGE shoutout to our local Fort Smith friends — Sonic Drive-In, Texas Roadhouse, and Nothing Bundt Cakes— for treating our staff with delicious rolls, teas, lemonades, cakes, games, and goodies galore. Your generosity truly made the day extra special! 💛 And your generous future goodies via coupons for Fostering Change kiddos and staff was a huge hit!
The day was filled with laughter, camaraderie, and A LOT of good times, despite a minor hiccup—we woke up to no power! 💡 But did that stop us? Of course not! We scrambled for candles, generators, and extra lighting, only for the electricity to magically return right when we got everything set up. “We make plans, and God laughs,” right? 😂
We couldn’t have pulled it off without Matt (our master planner), Eric, Logan, Marla, Maria, Sharon, Joanie, Antonia, Taricka, Breanna, Angelia, and the rest of our amazing crew who decorated, brought in vendors, secured door prizes, and even volunteered for some pie-in-the-face action! 🥧😂
Our staff is truly the heart of The Guidance Center — and we are so lucky to work with the kindest, most dedicated, and hardest-working people who make a difference in the lives of those we serve
