Partnering to Help Local Kids - The Salinas Californian
This year Kinship Center celebrates its 16th year as a selected charity of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, to be held Sunday August 16. As a selected charity, Kinship Center will sell opportunity tickets for the 2015 Mercedes-Benz C Class... Apart from the luster of a premiere world class automobile event, this is a partnership that has also changed children’s lives: “Each year Kinship Center is able to raise critical funds that change children’s lives by selling opportunity tickets... Over the 16 years of its partnership with the Concours d’Elegance, Kinship Center has raised more than half a million dollars that have given a second chance at life to thousands of the most vulnerable children in local communities. Since 1984 Kinship Center has helped children who carry the scars of severe past abuse, neglect or abandonment find safety and stability in a permanent, loving adoptive family. To help ensure long-term success for children with such special needs, Kinship Center also provides the families with comprehensive support services such as education, counseling, crisis intervention, and one-on-one help. “This is the essential support that enables the family to understand the neurological impact of abuse on a child and learn how to help traumatized children heal,” said Bishop. The Concours partnership has literally saved children’s lives. Source: www.thecalifornian.com
