Category: Success Stories
Tag: Compassion | End-of-Life Care | Palliative Care | Pediatric patients | Respite Care
I wrote those words eight years ago soon after my infant son, Noah, and our whole family received care at the end of Noah’s life at George Mark Children’s House. One day I was the parent of two healthy thriving children, four year old Sofia and her almost four month old brother, Noah. The next …
Category: Success Stories
Tag: Compassion | End-of-Life Care | Pallivative Care | Pediatric patients | Respite Care
We would like you to meet Shub. He is a happy and busy six year old who has been coming to George Mark Children’s House for respite care since he was three years old. Can you imagine packing your three year old son for an overnight stay without you? Now, also imagine that your son, …
Category: Success Stories
Each year, GSF Foundation’s Back (Pack) to School Initiative helps thousands of children start the school year on the right track. Now in its eleventh year, the program provides backpacks filled with essential school supplies to first-grade students in U.S. communities where associates from Golden State Foods (GSF) and its family of companies work and …
Category: Success Stories
To promote literacy over summer break, Friendly Center’s CEAC (Community Engagement Advisory Committee) hosted a 4-week program titled “Lectura Infantil” through the month of August. Lectura Infantil, which translates to Child Reading, gave parents and their children a space to read books, work on literacy exercises, and participate in other activities. Coming at the close …
Category: Success Stories
Tag: Children | Counseling | Families | Mental Health | Support Group
An important part of Friendly Center’s whole-family approach in providing resources to the community is insuring that children are supported both academically and personally. For this reason, Friendly Center staff has developed a support group, for children of clients, specifically designed to build emotional intelligence and conflict management skills. For the first iteration of the …
Category: Success Stories
Tag: disability | dyslexia | education | language | learning
The Stern Center for Language and Learning is a nonprofit learning center dedicated to helping children and adults reach their academic, social, and professional goals. At an annual meeting of the organization, Zach Terwilliger shared his story and expressed gratitude for his Stern Center teachers who understood his learning disability, knew how to teach him …
Category: Success Stories
Tag: camp | cancer | Hodgkin's lymphoma
I was given the opportunity to attend Dream Street the summer of 2001 while going through treatment for Stage IV Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. At 11 years old, bald and scared, I entered a world that would change my life forever. This past summer was my 17th year with the organization. It was a bit of a …
Category: Success Stories
Tag: fresh start | parole | reunion | Social Services
At one point in his life, Robert Ford was living the American dream. He was an Army veteran, had a job he loved, owned his own home and his wife was pregnant with their first child, Magan. Then, things went downhill. Robert got into trouble and was sent to the penitentiary. Magan was just 10 …
Category: Success Stories
Tag: cerebral palsy | disability | occupational therapy | physical therapy
It is amazing how your vision for the future can change in an instant. That’s what happened when my triplets were born early at just 25 weeks, weighing just a few pounds each. I was devastated when, shortly after the girls were born, Corinne passed away from a rare heart defect, and Addison and Jocelyn …
Category: Success Stories
Tag: art | creativity | healing
Art & Creativity for Healing Inc. (ACFH) supports emotional healing for children, families, individuals, and military personnel using our Art4Healing® method. We assist adults and children suffering from the emotional impacts of abuse, illness, grief, fear or stress. Our individual workshops and community programs offer expression, encouragement, clarity, and insight. ACFH also partners with schools, …