‘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, […]
An old-fashioned, cross-generation village
View original article By Terry Galvin Business Editor Posted Apr 10, 2017 at 12:01 AM For a community with a mission to help children, it must be difficult to tell who benefits the most from New Life Village. Just listen to Luanne Panacek, the executive director of the cross-generation community of 31 townhomes west of […]
When one foster community loses power, another takes in its 30 children
After Hurricane Irma knocked out power to Everyday Blessings, a foster home in Thonotosassa, the nearly 30 children who live there were left with no air conditioning and spoiling food in the refrigerators. The operators first took them to a hurricane shelter, but it closed after one night of the storm, said Sister Claire LeBoeuf, […]
Nun’s devotion to foster kids earns her Lightning’s Hero award
View Original Article BY JOYCE MCKENZIE Special Correspondent Published: January 13, 2016 THONOTOSASSA — Claire LeBoeuf is a voice for the voiceless and a lifelong champion for children. Those are the sentiments of Paul Halpern, director of New Life Village in Tampa, founded in 2012 by LeBoeuf, a Catholic nun commonly referred to as Sister […]
