The Center for Children, in conjunction with the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs, is gearing up for our 3rd Annual Touch-a-Truck Festival. Please save the date of April 30, 2011 from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm at Regency Furniture Stadium.
Touch-a-Truck is a unique family-oriented event featuring cars, trucks and other vehicles that children are allowed to touch, climb-on, take pictures alongside, and explore. The experience will include a military helicopter, the Charles County Trolley, construction vehicles, emergency equipment and so much more! Last year we welcomed nearly 3.000 visitors and expect even more to come through our gates in April!
The focus of the event is to bring a fun family activity to Southern Maryland while raising money and awareness for the Center for Children. The Center for Children is a private, non-profit organization that provides comprehensive mental health services to children and their families throughout Southern Maryland. The Center is dedicated to the prevention and treatment of child abuse and the promotion of positive mental health through crisis intervention, therapy, education, and advocacy.
Founded in 1988 and aiding over 8000 children and families since, the Center for Children, Inc. has offices in La Plata, Prince Frederick and Leonardtown, Maryland and serves clients from Charles, St. Mary’s, Calvert and lower Prince George’s counties.
The Center provides comprehensive treatment and prevention services to the Southern Maryland community, including individual therapy, group victim therapy, incest survivor’s group therapy, play therapy, psychological evaluations, courtroom advocacy, offender treatment programs, etc. Community services include professional training seminars, community awareness programs, prevention programs for children, training for day care providers, chaperones for supervised visitation, a resource center for child abuse information and children’s mental health information, etc. The Center also has specialized programs including: Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA of Southern Maryland); Healthy Families, a home visiting program for first time mothers; and a mentoring program for at-risk youth, Divorce Education for the Courts, Psychiatric Emergency Evaluations at Civista and evaluations for the Department of Juvenile Justice.
The Center for Children is a private, nonprofit program. The staff consists of licensed, caring professionals specially trained to work with children and their families and is funded by client fees based on a sliding scale as well as through donations, foundation grants, memberships and various fundraising events.
