{"id":399,"date":"2011-08-05T12:47:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T12:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/?p=399"},"modified":"2011-08-08T22:30:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T22:30:21","slug":"david-visited-childrens-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/david-visited-childrens-home\/","title":{"rendered":"David visited Children&#8217;s Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, 2011 David visited the Children&#8217;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 \u2018Birthday Boy\u2019 and then took time to meet and talk to the children and staff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Children\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0The 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.\u00a0 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\u2019s-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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Though partially funded by Medicaid and ChildNet, the therapeutic home relies on donations to fund the home\u2019s expenses. For more information and to make a donation please visit their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Childrens-Home-Society-of-Florida-Intercoastal-Division\/82597433647?sk=wall\">Facebook page<\/a> and website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chsfl.org\">http:\/\/www.chsfl.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Childrens_Home_Society_of_Florida-Intercoastal_Division1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-401\" title=\"Childrens_Home_Society_of_Florida-Intercoastal_Division\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Childrens_Home_Society_of_Florida-Intercoastal_Division1.jpg\" alt=\"June 23, 2011\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Childrens_Home_Society_of_Florida-Intercoastal_Division1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Childrens_Home_Society_of_Florida-Intercoastal_Division1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_400\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 731px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">David with staff members: Sherry Mailey, Teri Lurie and Krisztina Kupfer<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 23rd, 2011 David visited the Children&#8217;s Home Society of Florida-Intercoastal Division in Fort Lauderdale, FL. 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