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| Article Published 8/5/2013
Dabo & Kathleen Swinney Are All-In To Help Mothers And Children Beat Addiction |
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| All-in Team Foundation invests in temporary housing for graduates of Serenity Place | |
The All-in Team Foundation has awarded a $ 270,000 grant to The Family Effect, a Greenville-based effort to reduce addiction’s impact on child neglect and family collapse. The investment will help to create temporary housing at Serenity Place, a treatment program in Greenville that helps young mothers beat addiction and take responsibility for their children and families. The All-in Team Foundation is a philanthropic effort of Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney and his wife Kathleen, and works to raise awareness of critical education and health issues to improve the lives of people in South Carolina. The funds invested by the Foundation will be used to build one of three duplexes on-site at Serenity Place, located in the Dunean Mill neighborhood. Each duplex will hold two living spaces, each with three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a full kitchen. “The mothers who graduate successfully from our program at Serenity Place have worked hard to turn their lives around, and they’re excited to get back on their feet. Unfortunately, some of our families have no safe place to live when they graduate, and they need time to find a workable solution,” says Adam Brickner, Executive Director of The Phoenix Center, which runs Serenity Place. “Dabo, Kathleen and the donors of the All-in Team Foundation have stepped up in a big way to help solve that problem.” Dabo & Kathleen Swinney have been supporters of Serenity Place for several years, helping to fund several initiatives and projects. “The All-in Team Foundation is excited to be able to sponsor one of the transitional houses at Serenity Place,” says Coach Swinney. “This is a critical need. It defeats the program’s purpose for the mothers and children to return to the same environment which created the addiction.” Kathleen Swinney agrees. “We have witnessed and fully understand how difficult it is to transition back into the mainstream after treatment,” she says. “Dabo and I want to do everything we can to help with that transition.” Coach Swinney also gives his own time in support of the effort, serving as a member of the Board of Directors for The Family Effect. Construction on the duplexes at Serenity Place will begin in September, with vulnerable mothers and children finding safety in the housing by spring of 2014. “We’re incredibly grateful to the All-in Team Foundation for their support and generosity,” says Brickner. “This project is going to help save families and children, and that’s a gift to the entire community.” The Family Effect is a 501(c)(3) public charity that works to reduce addiction as a leading cause of family collapse and harm to children. The organization accomplishes this objective by raising funds and recruiting volunteers for programs at The Phoenix Center of Greenville that focus on families and children. For more information, contact Scott Dishman, Director of Community Engagement for The Family Effect. He can be reached at (864) 915-0801, or you can send him an email at sdishman@thefamilyeffect.org | |
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