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In This Issue
:: A New Beginning Evening
:: Breakfast with Santa
:: Community Giving Connection
:: STEP
:: Holiday Gift Project
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pink dress  Awareness, Fashion Rule the Runway

Over 175 guests joined Center For Family Services and A New Beginning Committee for A New Beginning Evening; a fashion show and gala benefitting Lynn's House at Center For Family Services.


The Collingswood Grand Ballroom offered the perfect backdrop for the star studded night which included a red carpet entry, catering by STARR restaurants, and silent auction. While guests enjoyed dessert, Hollywood actress Kelly McGillis shared her personal story of addiction and courageous journey to recovery.


The evening ended with a vibrant fashion show highlighting a mix of designers presented by Primadonna.


Thank you to the New Beginning Committee for the hard work and dedication they put into this event as well as all guests, sponsors,and donors. Event proceeds, totaling over $50,000, will provide recovery services to mothers through the Center's Family First program at Lynn's House.

 

View event photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/centerffs


Breakfast with Santa


Join us for Breakfast with Santa sponsored by Maggiano's Little Italy, Cherry Hill Mall, and TD Bank.  Purchase tickets today!  100% of ticket cost will benefit CFS' shelter and group home teens for the holidays.

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Community Giving Connection

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  TD Bank Employees with duffle bag donations

Thank you to the TD Bank Spirit of Giving for the generous donation of 24 girls and boys duffle bags.  Each bag was thoughtfully filled with socks, toiletries, and other necessities. These bags will help us provide a warm welcome to the teens who come to our shelter and group homes.  

Thank you to Campbell's Soup Company and the employees at Campbell's for the generous donation of 1000 boxes of food for Camden City families served by Center For Family Services. "We are grateful to Campbell's for helping us to provide healthy and nourishing meals to families here in Camden City," CFS CEO Richard Stagliano.

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Dedicated Campbell's employees help load food boxes

  

A special thanks to the Comcast Foundation for their support of CFS' Quixote Quest program. Comcast has committed $75,000 over three years to Quixote Quest which will enable the program to open a new club and strengthen their existing presence in the community with new marketing materials. More information about the Foundation and its programs is available at www.comcast.com/neighborhood. 

 

CFS' Services Empowering Rights of Victims (SERV) program is the recipient of the 2010 Mary Kay Foundation Domestic Violence Shelter grant for $20,000. We are grateful for this generous grant that will be used for SERV and our Domestic Violence Safe House in Gloucester County.thank you

 

This past August Center For Family Services received $20,000 in golf tournament proceeds from Valero to support the work we do with children in southern New Jersey. This grant will be used for youth in our Together Youth Shelter program for enrichment activities.  Thank you to Valero for helping us provide hope to children.

 

CFS thanks the Verizon Foundation for the $7,500 grant for our SERV program and Quixote Quest to pair together and create PSAs that will teach teens about dating violence. The experience will enable Quixote Quest teen volunteers to learn about signs of violence and resources to turn to for help-information which they will use to produce  a video that will be shared with teens in other CFS programs and CFS' Facebook page.


 

CFS was recently awarded with funding from two highly competitive Administration of Children and Families grant programs. The $175,163 three-year contract through their Basic Center Grant was awarded to Together Youth Shelter and will allow us to continue providing emergency shelter and wrap-around services for runaway and homeless youth. Our Street Outreach program can now expand into Camden City with an $115,000 three-year contract from the administration. This program provides street-based outreach to runaway and homeless youth, a population who was previously underserved in Camden City. We are grateful for the opportunity to expand our services! 

 
CFS Introduces New Mentoring Program

Center For Family Services is proud to announce a new program to the organization. STEP, Success in Teaching Empowerment Possibilities, provides business mentors to Camden County probation youth, ages 16-18.  These employment based mentors will supervise one teen in the workplace for 4 hours per week.  During supervision, the CFS STEP program will provide the working teens with a stipend.


The goal of the STEP program is to provide teens with the tools and work experience needed for future success.  Business professionals interested in making a difference by offering work experience to a teen should contact step@centerffs.org or call Kelly Jernegan at 856-964-1990 x180.
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Holiday Gift Project

Participate in Center For Family Services' Holiday Gift Project and bring the joy of the holidays to children and teens in need.  Our goal is to provide presents for over a thousand disadvantaged kids in our community served by Center For Family Services. Gifts are specifically picked out for individual children, so they receive exactly what they asked for, sometimes for the first time in their lives.


Sponsor a child and receive their wish list, organize a neighborhood or office collection of new gift items, or simply donate a gift for an individual. Gift cards, teen gifts, and baby gifts are always needed.  Your help will bring a smile to the face of a child.