Dr. Phil Foundation to Award Lutheran Family Service of Colorado with Gift on Upcoming DR. PHIL Show
COLORADO, May 27, 2008 — The Dr. Phil Foundation will make a significant contribution to Lutheran Family Services of Colorado (LFS) on the Wednesday, May 28, 2008 episode of DR. PHIL (check local listings), it was announced today by Jim Barclay, CEO of LFS. The grant will be used as an "enrichment fund" for children and their foster care programs. This gift, which is the second by the foundation to LFS, will be used to enable children in foster care to participate in such things as music lessons/programs, dance classes, summer camps and athletics, as well as to purchase instruments or team uniforms. " The Dr. Phil Foundation will make a difference in the lives of these and other children," said Barclay.
The DR. PHIL episode, entitled Against All Odds, will focus on how people can make a positive difference in the lives of foster children and take a look at the difficult journey of two very special young lives.
Tania came into the LFS system as a medically fragile baby. She had a non-accidental head trauma and was believed to have been violently shaken as a baby. Gabriel also came into the program in the same delicate condition having been diagnosed with Epidermolysis Bullosa, a severe condition that does not allow the skin to bond which makes him always a risk for infection.
With the $20,000 received in the 2006 Dr. Phil Foundation grant, LFS was able to provide enrichment funds for 109 foster children. LFS hopes to stretch the 2008 grant even further by inviting people who care about vulnerable children to add their own personal donations to this fund so that even more children can experience opportunities that are otherwise financially impossible in the foster care system.
About the Dr. Phil Foundation
The Dr. Phil Foundation is a nonprofit, charitable organization committed to supporting organizations and programs that address the emotional, physical, mental and spiritual needs of children and families. Dr. Phil McGraw, best-selling author and host of the television series DR. PHIL, and his wife Robin established the foundation in 2003. For more information, please visit www.drphil.com or www.drphilfoundation.org.
About Lutheran Family Services
With three regional offices along the Front Range, Lutheran Family Services is one of the largest private foster care providers in the state, serving 460 children through 213 foster homes in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007. As a private nonprofit organization, Lutheran Family Services relies on private donors, grants and special event sponsorships to provide money for the extra-special needs of the children in our care.
LFS also provides services in the areas of domestic and international adoption, geriatric care management and caregiver support disaster response, legal immigration services, refugee & asylee resettlement, crisis pregnancy counseling, parenting education and support and teen pregnancy prevention, serving a total of more than 16,000 people each year. Lutheran Family Services serves all people without regard to race, religion, creed, culture, gender, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, military/veteran status or economic status and has been extending a hand to vulnerable children and families in Colorado since 1948. Our skillful and compassionate staff, foster parents and volunteers collaborate with a host of congregations, municipalities, foundations, state and county Human Service departments, multiple United Way agencies and other human service and other human service providers, to "walk with the vulnerable through services that heal, strengthen, and provide hope."
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