FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OCT. 8, 2013
Contact: Jerry Coleman of Family Promise Lower Bucks, 215-547-0569
Joe Erb of SEPA Wrestling, 215-380-3499
Local Wrestling Club Supports Homeless Children’s Charity “Tuck One In” with Donation.
LEVITTOWN – Addressing the county’s growing number of homeless families, Family Promise of Lower Bucks has an awareness and fundraising campaign underway and more than 150 area businesses are supporting the campaign through October to “Tuck One In.”
Coin collection canisters can be found now at about 150 area businesses throughout Lower Bucks County. The familiar canisters are emblazoned with the Tuck One In logo – a reference to the 400 to 500 children in Bucks County who don’t have the benefit of sleeping in their own bed at night.
A local youth wrestling club, Southeast Pa Wrestling is a youth based organization dedicated to teaching and promoting the sport of wrestling. The goal of the club is to provide a safe, positive, and constructive learning environment for the wrestlers. With these characteristics as our foundation, we believe that our wrestlers will learn the values of discipline, hard work, and determination. SEPA made a donation to the FPLB “Tuck One In” campaign at its wrestling practice on Tuesday evening at Carl Sandburg Middle School on Harmony Road in Levittown. SEPA works very closely with a diverse group of young men and recognizes that fact there our economy is hitting some families very hard so they wanted to help homeless children. Club founders and coach’s Joe Erb, Kurt Paroly and Jay Saunders dedicate many hours helping to shape the lives of children and said “its hard to imagine what a child must go thru not having the basic things most have.” The club will collect donations for Family Promise of Lower Bucks through out its 2013-2014 season. The club practices at Carl Sandburg on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
Along with the collection canisters Family Promise of Lower Bucks will be hosting four area restaurant events “dining out” nights from which proceeds will be donated to the campaign.
Family Promise of Lower Bucks, part of Bucks County’s Continuum of Care network of homeless support, soon expects to announce a location for a permanent day center to be used by homeless families in Lower Bucks. There, in a homelike setting, a small group of families – 3 to 4 at a time – will have a place to spend their days while working with trained professionals on finding work, budgeting and other self-sufficiency skills.
Candidates in this program are screened for criminal backgrounds and substance abuse. These factors help the national model of the program to boast a nearly 80% success rate in placing families back into self supportive housing.
In the evenings, the congregations working with Family Promise will provide dinner and a place to stay for these families. To date, congregations that have stepped forward to host or support the families are: Church of Living Hope in Langhorne; Highland Park Community Church, Levittown; Lutheran Church of the Resurrection,Yardley; United Christian Church, Levittown; First Presbyterian Church of Levittown; Hope Lutheran Church, Levittown; Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Lower Bucks, Langhorne; Zubaida Foundation Mosque, Yardley.
FPLB continues to recruit congregational partners and has determined that 13 are needed before services will be delivered.
About Family Promise of Lower Bucks
A 501c3 organization, FPLB is an affiliate of Family Promise, a national organization with 180 networks across the U.S. Nationally, nearly 80 percent of families mentored by FP return to self-sufficiency. The organization model is to work with a small number of drug-free, mentally healthy clients at one time.
More about Tuck One In
Restaurant promotions will take place on the following dates and locations:Thursday, Oct. 10, 4 to 10 p.m. at Buffalo Wild Wings in Langhorne; Tuesday, Oct. 15, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Kris Crois, Fairless Hills; Thursday, Oct. 24 from 5 to 8 p.m., Chick-Fil-A, Langhorne; Tuesday, Oct. 29, all day and night, Miller’s Ale House.
More information
Online: https://www.fplb.org/
Facebook: facebook.com/FamilyPromiseOfLowerBucks
Mail tax-deductible donations at: Promise of Lower Bucks, 837 Hoe Road, Levittown, PA 19056
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