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7-Eleven Donates Food, Drinks To LI Assisted Living Facility

The items will help the facility's employees who work with over 4,000 people w/ intellectual disabilities, mental illness & brain injury.

7-Eleven showed its gratitude to Family Residences and Essential Enterprises' front-line direct support professionals in Old Bethpage.
7-Eleven showed its gratitude to Family Residences and Essential Enterprises' front-line direct support professionals in Old Bethpage. (Courtesy of FREE, Inc.)

OLD BETHPAGE, NY — Family Residences and Essential Enterprises (FREE), a nonprofit agency that supports individuals with developmental/intellectual disabilities, mental illness and traumatic brain injury in Old Bethpage, recently received a donation of assorted drinks and snacks by 7-Eleven, according to a news release.

The donated items will help FREE’s direct support professionals who work with more than 4,000 patients. FREE's mission is to help people of all abilities realize their full potential and provides a diverse array of supports and services including: housing, recovery services, transition to work, employment, day, community and family services, respite, crisis services, education and after-school support, primary and specialty health care and advocacy. For more information, you can call 516-870-1614 or visit the FREE website.

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