THE EFFECTIVE THERAPIES OF THE EASTER SEALS SOCIETY OF SACRAMENTO AND SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA..........

Friday night's St. Joseph's Day Lenten Soup Supper at SacHeart Parish Hall, had as the beneficiary of this week's alms, the Easter Seals Society of Superior California. From their Therapy Center at 3205 Hurley Way in Sacramento came three employees who presented on the Help To Recovery Adult Dy Health Care Program, one of the dozens of Speech, Occupational,and Physical Therapies, Easter Seals provides for children, adults, and seniors. The therapies offered in the Sacramento Easter Seals Center to the 13 Counties of Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tuolumne, Yolo, Yuba, are for Children : Early Start Developmental Services; School Age Services; Warm Water Therapy; Suitability Therapy; Pediatric Autism Services; Assistive Technology Resources; Special Family Support Program; and for Adults : Community Based Day Programs; Performing, Culinary, and Fine Arts; Traumatic Brain Injury Services; Work Services and Work Crews; and for Seniors : Warm Water Programs; Arthritis Warm Water Exercise; and One On One Aquatic Therapy. Sacred Heart parishioner, Lisa Madrigal, who was permanently disabled with a traumatic brain injury as a college student fifteen years ago has participated in Easter Seals Help To Recovery Adult Day Health Care Program for the past fourteen years and is now volunteering through the program in the wider community, at the Crocker Art Gallery. I too, have a special gratitude and dedication to the Easter Seals Society in Sacramento. For the nearly twelve years of my youth, that I had to wear a metal orthopedic brace on my left leg, from ages 5-17; the Easter Seals Society and the Crippled Children's Association paid for my bracing in full, to my betterment and of great assistance to my father's nominal Campbell Soup income raising a family of six children. He and mmy mother were responsible for the special Groh's shoes I had to wear at $30-60 a pair, every three months, from the spring of 1962 through the fall of 1973. And so I ask you to join me in supporting and advocrating for the effective therapies the local Easter Seals Center provides in empowering those in need. As we assist them in their work with a Vision that, "People With Disabilities Will Have Equal Opportunity To Live, Learn, Work And Play In Their Community"..........Fr. Troy David
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