AUTISM FOUNDATION<\/p>\n
On Saturday, April 18, 2015 several of the office and field staff of Extended Family Care, Allentown met at Dorney Park to support the efforts of Autism Speaks, an autism advocacy foundation.\u00a0 Each year the<\/p>\n Darlene Simpson, HR Coordinator\n
Foundation hosts local fundraising events in communities across the United States in effort to raise awareness of the condition.\u00a0 The most popular of these events continues to be the \u201cWalk Now for Autism Speaks\u201d.<\/p>\n
Over the past several years the staff members of Extended Family Care have not only participated in the Walk, but they have raised additional funds to support the cause through branch fundraising efforts.\u00a0 This year their favorite was \u201cCrazy Crock Pot Day\u201d on which lunch was volunteered by an office teammate.\u00a0 Co-workers benefited with a hot meal in exchange for a small donation to Autism Speaks.\u00a0 Total donation figures this year were estimated over $300.<\/p>\n
Autism Speaks\u2019 national efforts to raise awareness and monetary support of the fastest growing developmental disability around the globe has been supported by Extended Family Care for the past 5 years.\u00a0 According to Carole Chiego, Administrator of the Branch, \u201cthey (the staff) have such a sincere dedication to the cause because they care about our clients and their families.\u00a0 They never seem to mind donating their own time and money to support causes such as Autism Speaks\u201d, she continued.<\/p>\n
Extended Family Care has been servicing pediatric<\/a> and adult clients since 1938.\u00a0 They have been in the Allentown<\/a> area since 2000 and the business continues to grow each year because of the dedicated and compassionate people they employ.\u00a0 To find out more about Extended Family Care please visit www.extendedfamilycare.com.\u00a0 To join a Walk or other advocacy efforts in your area visit https:\/\/www.autismspeaks.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AUTISM FOUNDATION On Saturday, April 18, 2015 several of the office and field staff of Extended Family Care, Allentown met at Dorney Park to support the efforts of Autism Speaks, an autism advocacy foundation.\u00a0 Each year the Foundation hosts local fundraising events in communities across the United States in effort to raise awareness of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-4071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autism-foundation","tag-autism-foundation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extendedfamilycare.com\/allentown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extendedfamilycare.com\/allentown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extendedfamilycare.com\/allentown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extendedfamilycare.com\/allentown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extendedfamilycare.com\/allentown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4071"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/extendedfamilycare.com\/allentown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13601,"href":"https:\/\/extendedfamilycare.com\/allentown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions\/13601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extendedfamilycare.com\/allentown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extendedfamilycare.com\/allentown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extendedfamilycare.com\/allentown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}