Angela's House - Walk for Hope- Sunday, September 13th

Hauppauge, NY (8/18/2015) – Angela’s House, sponsored by Long Island Applebee’s locations, will be hosting their 1st Annual 3K Walk at the Holtsville Ecology Center on Sunday, September 13th, 2015.

Join us for a family day of fun! Walkers, Wheelchairs and Strollers are welcome!

Approximately 200 of our children from our home care program will be walking and rolling along with their parents, siblings, family, friends, nurses and other supporters. Invite your friends and family and create a team to raise awareness and funds for Angela’s House.

Registration will begin at 9:00am and the event will kick-off (rain or shine) at 10:30am.Other special activities associated with the walk include visiting the on-site animal preserve, a live DJ, lunch provided by Applebee’s and other fun activities!

We are walking to raise awareness about the limited options that children born and diagnosed as being medically frail, chronically ill or suffering from any type of life threatening condition(s) have as far as services available to help them when and/or if they leave the hospital. These children have medical conditions that often require intensive nursing care, and other services that, if are available, are very fragmented and difficult to coordinate. The daunting task of home care is extremely overwhelming, especially without an agency available to coordinate the services needed to support such child at home. Until Angela’s House, there were no local specialized homes or facilities available that could care for these children and their unique needs. The nearest facilities were often out of state, leaving families in a very difficult position – have their child in a setting where they would receive quality care and travel hours to see them, or place them in a non-age appropriate setting and have them close to home. These voids in the system make a horrifying situation even worse.

Angela’s House, founded in 1992, offers hope for families and children living with severe medical conditions. Their home care programs works with over 600 children that live at home with their parents, by coordinating the home care services needed to support these children living at home. This may include services such as: medical equipment, nursing support, therapies, medications and making their homes handicapped accessible.

Angela’s House also has three beautiful specialty homes that have the ability to offer children, with often very severe medical needs, the therapeutic, nursing and potential long-term care required. The best part of these homes is the loving environment the children are embraced with. More information about Angela’s House can be found atwww.AngelasHouse.org.

Registration materials for this event are available for individuals and teams atwww.AngelasHouse.org and on the day of the event. Sponsorship opportunities are also available. Tickets are $20 if you pre-register and $25 on the day of the event. Please note: No fee for Angela’s House children to participate.

For additional local information, please contact Johanna Rotta at 631-796-2723 or via email at jrotta@angelashouse.org.

For additional information, please visit:

Angela’s House: www.AngelasHouse.org

Facebook page: www.facebook.com/angelashouse

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About Angela’s House

Angela’s House is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that assists families caring for children with special health care needs that are medically fragile, chronically ill or suffering from a life threatening illness. The organization assists families caring for their children at home, and for children that can no longer live at home, we run three unique homes where children can live with 24 hour nursing support. Our new home in Stony Brook cares for children that require ventilator support to assist them with breathing. The Policastro family founded this agency 23 years ago following the tragic crisis they faced with their daughter Angela. This parent-first mentality has become the approach and philosophy they apply to each family they assist.

More information about Angela’s House can be found at www.AngelasHouse.org.