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About Foundations Community Partnership Foundations Community Partnership Supports Patches Kids With Donation Doylestown, PA/Newtown, PA (April 29, 2009) - Foundations Community Partnership, a private non-profit operating foundation that supports behavioral health education and research has made a donation to Patches Kids to help them in their efforts to raise awareness of child sexual abuse and the laws designed to protect kids. Ronald Bernstein, executive director of Foundations Community Partnership presented Kathylee Forrester, founder of Patches Kids with a check for $500.
During childhood, children begin to develop communication skills, and it is imperative that the adults in a child's life encourage healthy communication. This enables children to learn, form relationships, build their sense of worth, develop coping skills and express their feelings, all of which empower them to endure challenges, through life's journey of happy times and painful moments. "We read about the work Patches Kids is doing with children, helping empower them to meet life's challenges," said Mr. Bernstein. "Foundations Community Partnership's mission is to support the emotional health of children and help them develop coping skills. That's why we chose Patches Kids to be the recipient of this donation." "We are thrilled to have the support of Foundations Community Partnership in our efforts to provide bears to more community organizations in Bucks County that are dealing directly with children's issues," said Kathylee Forrester, founder of Patches Kids. Foundations Community Partnership is a private non-profit operating foundation that supports behavioral health education and research, provides grants for non-profit organizations, awards scholarships to Bucks County public high school seniors, subsidizes service learning internships for college students and underwrites community education programs. To learn more about FCP and its mission please visit their website at www.fcpartnership.org or contact them at 267-247-5584.
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Patches Kids advocates for children, guiding them to find their voice. With the help of Patches the Bear and the eight expressive emotion face symbols, children can learn to name, understand and appropriately express the emotions he/she is feeling. Patches Kids helps children, including those in healthy or poor health, neglected - both emotionally and physically, sexually abused, traumatized by catastrophic events or bereavement, disabled and or learning disabled children, and those having to cope with deployment to communicate and express their feelings.