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First Annual Luncheon and Fashion Show to Benefit Paradise Adolescent Home Saturday August 7, 2010 11:30 - 3:00pm Scott's Seafood Grill & Bar 1333 North California Boulevard Walnut Creek, CA 94596-4534 |
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A soul lifting event for you and your friends! Please join us in supporting the Paradise Adolescent Home. Wear your crisp summer white and come out to Scott's beautiful garden dining room to enjoy a delicious lunch, fabulous fashion show and live entertainment. We will also have an awards presentation! Tickets $65 - Tickets Include:
If you cannot attend, we are still appreciative of your kind donation! Schedule
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About Paradise Adolescent Home "They are ALL our children"
We create opportunities for growth and development while assisting in recovery, nourishing self-esteem and helping girls to flourish in a world where they are at risk of withering away without significant support. Our mission is to inspire their creativity and optimism so that they can achieve their highest potential and become productive adults. We also want to provide continuing support to these young women after they turn 18 so that they can make a successful transition to college, the workforce and fully independent living. A 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation. Please visit our website at http://www.paradiseadolescenthome.org for more information. Reasons to Help Children who enter the foster care system are often faced with challenges and obstacles in life which most of us cannot even begin to imagine. Typically they have already survived significant trauma or abuse, but as they grow older and approach aging out of the system, they face even more difficult odds. Children who reach 18 and adulthood in the foster care system without being adopted or having any family or mentor of their own have staggeringly high rates of imprisonment, homelessness, alcohol and substance abuse, and a myriad of other problems. Typically, when foster kids turn eighteen, they are released from foster care. They can go back to their birth families, they can join the military, or they can just strike out on their own and try to find a job and a place to live. Unfortunately, simply turning kids out when they reach the age of legal adulthood has never worked too well. Many kids who are still in foster care by the time they turn 18 don't have any family members they can turn to for help. They may not want to, or be able to, join the military. And striking out on their own is harder than it seems, especially for teenagers who haven't had much job training or life skills training. Studies show that, for kids who age out of foster care at the age of eighteen, four years later 36% are or have been homeless; 25% of males are or have been in jail; fewer than half had graduated from high school; and most of them were living in poverty. Anything that we can do as a community to prevent these grim outcomes for our youth is a benefit to all of society. Paradise Adolescent Home strives to support our future by nurturing these children and providing them with the tools they need to realize their own potential and feed into a cycle of positive development and encouragement rather than a cycle of destruction. We appreciate your support! | |||||||||||||
