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Adolescent Counseling Services’ Donors Buy $16,000 in Bricks
Caravan House Ceremony, Springs Sounds Carnival Planned for June 1st
Palo Alto, California — May 19, 2003 — Adolescent Counseling Services (ACS), a community-based nonprofit agency dedicated to the healthy social and emotional development of teens, has raised $16,000 in donations by selling personalized bricks destined for the front garden of Caravan House, the agency’s group home for teenage girls. Donors will be honored at a special ceremony on Sunday, June 1, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the founding of Caravan House. The ceremony will be followed by a family carnival, “Spring Sounds in the Park,” from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Bowden Park at the corner of California Avenue and Alma Street in Palo Alto.
Caravan House is a long-term residential group home for girls between the ages of 12 and 18. Located on the same quiet street near downtown Palo Alto where it was founded in 1977, the six-bed home provides shelter, around-the-clock therapy and independent living skills training for girls who have been removed from their families due to abuse or neglect. Since it opened its doors 25 years ago, more than 250 girls have called Caravan House their home, staying an average of 15 months.
“The bricks will be engraved with the donor’s name or an inspirational saying. Every time a young girl walks through the garden at Caravan House, she’ll be reminded of how many people care about her,” said Kara Mullen, ACS director of development. “I’m confident that our generous donors will help us lay the groundwork for the future of ACS.”
The goal of the “Donate a Brick” campaign is to raise $130,000 to help ACS fund the three programs it runs for at-risk teenagers and their family members: Caravan House, an On-Campus Counseling Program that provides individual, family and group counseling at no cost to students and their family members at five secondary schools in Palo Alto and at Menlo-Atherton High School, and an Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Program that provides intensive outpatient treatment to teens struggling with drug and/or alcohol abuse. The agency’s operating budget of $1.3 million is funded by government agencies and through private donations and corporate grants.
ACS administrative offices are located at 4000 Middlefield Road, Suite FH, Palo Alto, California 94303.
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