Finding forever families and homes for foster kids in the Tampa Bay area
Read Original Article: https://www.tampabay.com/hillsborough/finding-forever-families-and-homes-for-foster-kids-in-the-tampa-bay-area-20190814/ TAMPA — Claire LeBoeuf has devoted most of her life to helping hurting kids have a happy and more promising future. Her commitment to that growing segment of the population stems from the trauma she experienced as a young teen following the sudden death of her mother. She was sent to […]
Why communities that bring young and older people together may be the future of housing
View original article By Sally Abrahms April 11, 2019 Helen Neal-Ali’s kitchen window looks out on a playground at New Life Village in Tampa, Fla. If a child scraps a knee getting off the swing or seems out of sorts, she might offer a hug. Older kids join her on Tuesday nights, when she runs […]
Retirement Community of Care
View original article by Sally Abrahms, AARP Bulletin, November 2016 New England’s intergenerational Treehouse provides residents with a sense of purpose IT’S ONLY MIDMORNING and already Mary Steele has given rides to one teen who missed the school bus and to another who needed to get to work at a nearby mall. Later, Steele, 82, plays trucks […]
‘I Want to Empty the Foster Care System’: Retired Nun Provides Loving Environment for At-Risk Kids
View original article By Michelle Bearden | Tribune Staff Published: June 30, 2011 TAMPA, FL – It takes a village to raise a child – that’s the motto at New Life Village in Florida, a unique intergenerational community. Its goal is to reduce the number of children in foster care and provide kids in need with a loving, […]
Tampa nuns say it’s a miracle kidney donation fit
View original article By Michelle Bearden | Tribune Staff Published: June 30, 2011 TAMPA – Sister Claire LeBoeuf needed a kidney. Without it, she would have to go on three-times-a-week dialysis, and her lifelong ministry as a children’s advocate would come to a sudden halt. The waiting list for a donated kidney was at least three years. LeBoeuf, 67, […]
