PARSIPPANY — The Greater Parsippany Kiwanis Club Foundation recently made a donation to Somerset Home to Visions and Pathways. Accepting the donation was Jessica Revolorio, Outreach Supervisor.
Somerset Home has been helping abused, neglected and homeless youth since 1973. Each year, hundreds of teens from difficult family situations find a safe haven and the caring support they need in one of our seven programs for youth ages 13 to 21+. Brahma House residential crisis intervention program; Passages, My Place and Whitney House transitional-living programs; Pathways independent-living skills program; Street Smart street outreach program; and Bridge House supportive-housing program.
The kids who come through the doors have broken lives. Some are shattered; some have just a small crack. Some show no physical signs of damage – the scars are on the inside. Somerset Home helps them put the pieces back together again, with the basics of food and shelter as well as counseling, medical attention, education, recreation, career and employment counseling, financial literacy – all of the skills they need to succeed.
Kiwanis International is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time. Our members, Kiwanians, are service-minded men and women who are united in their commitment and compassion for others.
Any community need can become a Kiwanis service project, especially the needs of children. Kiwanis service projects range from efforts that help local communities to Kiwanis International’s Worldwide Service Project for the elimination of iodine deficiency disorders.
Kiwanis Club of Greater Parsippany meets at Empire Diner, 1915 Route 46 at 7:15 a.m. Thursday mornings.
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