Congratulations

Cheers for Charity 2009 beneficiary is: Child and Family Guidance Center’s Stephen J. McManus Family Mental Health Clinic

Stephen J. McManus served on the Child and Family Guidance Center’s Board of Directors for 6 years. Both as a board member and then as president, Steve’s dedication and compassion was unwavering. Therefore, in memoriam to Steve, the Child and Family Guidance Center has named their newest clinic in his honor. For more than 110 years, Child and Family Guidance has provided quality, accessible mental health services to strengthen children, families, and our communities. The Stephen J. McManus Family Mental Health Clinic, opening in the summer of 2009, will be located in South Dallas. The clinic will provide severely needed children’s mental health and psychiatric services to an indigent and often-hopeless population that is historically been underserved and otherwise neglected. For more information please visit their web site at www.childrenandfamilies.org.

In an effort to support this outstanding cause, Cheers for Charity will host the first Families Helping Families Service Day on Saturday, November 7, 2009 to benefit the Stephen J. McManus Family Mental Health Clinic. Families Helping Families will be an all-day, hands on, family service event that will take place at the clinic giving our donors and their families an opportunity to participate in various projects that will both beautify and enhance the McManus Clinic, establishing a more nurturing, safe and therapeutic environment for the clinic’s clients. The gift of your precious time and or a monetary donation, will help launch the McManus Clinic and honor the memory of an extraordinary man.

To make a donation to this amazing organization
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To volunteer for Cheers for Charity’s Families Helping Families Service Day on Saturday, November 7 please contact our volunteer coordinator, Beth Baker at info@cheersforcharity.com

Beneficiaries

2008 Community Partners of Dallas

($45,000 plus $1,500 of in-kind donations to stock the shelves of the Rainbow Room)

2007 Rainbow Days, Inc.

($45,000 plus $,500 in Christmas stockings for homeless children and their families)

2006 Circle of Support

($30,000 plus $1,500 in school supplies)

2005 Buckner Children's Home

($22,000.00 donation and $3,000.00 in gift items to benefit foster care program)

2004 David's Place Head Start

(Cheers for Charity library was established. Total of 800 books were donated)

2003 David's Place Head Start

(books to start a library for children ages 3-5 years old)

2002 Educational First Steps

(funds to purchase books for disadvantaged children)

2001 Dallas Children's Advocacy Center

(1,500 teddy bears for abused children)

2000 William Brown Miller Elementary School

(clothing and school supplies)

1999 Texas Scotish Rite Hospital for Children

(conduced a toy drive)

1998 The Elisa Project

(funds for the prevention and education of eating disorders)

1997 Attitudes and Attire

(clothing to economically challenged women training to reenter the work force)

1996 LeTot

(gifts and food for the holiday season to a single mother and her six children living in poverty)

1995 The Food Pantry for the AIDS Resource Center

(canned and dried goods

1994 Family Gateway Homeless Shelter

(grocery items for babies, children and adults

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