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David visited Children’s Home

On June 23rd, 2011 David visited the Children’s Home Society of Florida-Intercoastal Division in Fort Lauderdale, FL. The aim of the visit was to help celebrate a birthday and provide a morale boost to the staff and children in the Home. David sang Happy Birthday for the ‘Birthday Boy’ and then took time to meet and talk to the children and staff.

The Children’s Home is an emergency shelter for children removed from their homes due to abuse, neglect or abandonment. The children who have endured hardship after hardship through no fault of their own receive the care they need without having to leave their community.

 The group home can serve twelve 8- to 15-year-old boys in foster care who need long-term, intense, therapeutic care. Because of their tragic backgrounds, the boys are often coping with severe loss, abuse, neglect, abandonment and/or other struggles.  The home provides safe shelter in a homelike environment, case management, individual and group therapy, psychiatric services and medical care, tutoring and educational services, independent living training, and more. Each child receives comprehensive services from a multidisciplinary team of nurses, caseworkers, a master’s-level clinician, a psychiatrist, counselors, and child advocates. The House provides solid therapy, behavior management and educational guidance so the boys may transition to live in a traditional home setting, whether with foster families, adoptive families or, if safe and appropriate, their biological families.”

 Though partially funded by Medicaid and ChildNet, the therapeutic home relies on donations to fund the home’s expenses. For more information and to make a donation please visit their Facebook page and website http://www.chsfl.org

June 23, 2011

David with staff members: Sherry Mailey, Teri Lurie and Krisztina Kupfer

Gala Fundraising event August 7, 2011

The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF) is holding its annual Gala Fundraiser on Sunday, August 7 at 7:00 PM EDT. The event will be hosted by celebrity chef Bobby Flay and HRTV’s Carolyn Conley. Among the VIPs who will be attending the gala evening are Bo Derek and David Cassidy.

The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF) is the largest equine rescue organization of its kind, devoted to the rescue, retirement, rehabilitation and retraining of thoroughbred racehorses no longer able to compete on the track.  They currently care for over 1,100 retired racehorses daily with more than 650 additional horses in adoptive homes. At re-training farms around the country, they prepare racehorses for adoption as riding horses.  At their correctional facility farms, they provide a vocational training program for inmates as they provide supervised care to the retired horses.

The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation is a place that offers a humane alternative to the dire possibilities that have long faced a great majority of ex-racers – neglect, abuse and slaughter. It is a place, built on love and caring, that is befitting such noble and deserving animals.

For more information on TRF go to: http://www.trfinc.org/

Tickets for the Gala Fundraising Event: http://www.trfinc.org/Saratoga-Gala-2011-c118.html