Family Empowerment Day for Broward County's Families

Release date: 10/21/2010

Oct. 13, 2010 (FORT LAUDERDALE,FL) Children's Home Society of Florida, (CHS) Intercoastal Division's 4th Annual Family Empowerment Day will be Saturday November 13 at Delevoe Park, 2520 NW 6th Street, in Fort Lauderdale. The event helps educate and empower Broward County families currently served by CHS so they may take their newfound knowledge to lead sustainable, healthy lifestyles when their involvement with CHS concludes. Currently, 2,500 local children and families receive services from the Intercoastal Division each year.

"Stronger families create stronger communities, which can only make this county a better place to live and raise children to the best of their potential," says Lance Edinburg, creator of Family Empowerment Day and counselor at CHS. "Broward County has so many wonderful programs to help families empower themselves, giving them the knowledge and tools to make good decisions and improve their lives."

Family Empowerment Day is free of charge, and families may come anytime between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. In addition to food and fun activities for children and adults, community providers will present to talk with families and provide informational literature and items. 99 Jamz, South Florida's HIP HOP & R&B station, will provide the music.

CHS is reaching out to the community for financial support, donations of food and beverages, child friendly activities, and community providers.

"With the help of our neighbors, we will be able to make this an extraordinary event resulting in more competent, self-assured families," Edinburg says. Baptist Medical Plaza at Coral Springs has signed on to support the 4th Annual Family Empowerment Day by providing 300 bottles of water.

For more information on Family Empowerment Day, becoming a community provider or sponsorship opportunities, contact Karen Holmes at (954) 453-6411.

Created in 1902, Children's Home Society of Florida (CHS) is the oldest and largest statewide private not-for-profit provider of services to children and families in Florida. The Intercoastal Division, established in 1967, serves 2,500 children and families in the Broward County area each year through a full spectrum of prevention and intervention programs. Services include foster care, adoption assistance, a children's emergency home, parent education, child abuse prevention programs, and more. CHS, which served more than 97,000 children and families throughout the state in 2008-2009, is headquartered in Winter Park, Fla., and offers services in more than 100 locations by more than 1,500 staff members dedicated to providing child-focused, family-centered care.
For more information about Children's Home Society of Florida, please call (954) 453-6400 or visit www.chsfl.org.

No clients shall be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Clients needing accommodations for a disability and/or clients with special communications needs should contact their Children’s Home Society of Florida worker or make their request for accommodation at the time of admission into a Children’s Home Society of Florida program.

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