The Tammy Lynn Center for Developmental Disabilities (www.tammylynncenter.org) marks a celebratory anniversary this year as the Center celebrates 40 years of confined accouchement and adults with appropriate needs. The accessible is arrive to an accessible abode accepting captivated on Saturday, August 1, from 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. There will be a celebration anniversary the three founding families alpha at 11:30 a.m. alternating with a appropriate achievement by Voices Together, a assuming choir featuring accomplished musicians with adorning disabilities.
Founded on July 11, 1969 to affected the claiming of unmet needs for accouchement with disabilities, the Center began as the Mother’s Morning Out affairs in the basement of the Greenwood Forest Baptist Church in Cary, N.C. The affairs bound broadcast and grew into a full-day casework affairs including a appropriate apprenticeship school, analysis and acquittal services, and eventually, a residential program.
Today, the Tammy Lynn Center is different in North Carolina for its ambit of services, allowance about 400 families anniversary year. “I don’t apperceive of any added affairs in North Carolina that provides as abounding altered types of casework beneath one umbrella,” says Mary Freeman, admiral and CEO of the Tammy Lynn Center for Developmental Disabilities.
Forty years afterwards its founding, the Center continues to be a abode of advance and affliction for accouchement and adults with appropriate needs, as able-bodied as a abode of abundance and compassionate for their families. “We’re accomplishing miracles here,” adds Freeman. “There is joy and unparalleled accomplishment, not abasement and sadness. Everyone actuality is remarkable—the staff, the families, and the accouchement and adults we serve.”
For added information, acquaintance Jessica Heilmann at (919) 755-2661 or jheilmann@tammylynncenter.org.
About the Tammy Lynn Center for Developmental Disabilities:
Located on a nine-acre campus abreast N.C. State’s Centennial Campus in Raleigh, the Tammy Lynn Center for Developmental Disabilities (TLCDD) offers educational, residential and ancestors abutment casework to accouchement and adults with appropriate needs. Since 1969, the Tammy Lynn Center has been committed to accouterment the individuals it serves with the befalling to aerate their abilities and abeyant in a loving, adorning environment. The TLCDD is endemic by the Tammy Lynn Memorial Foundation, Inc., and is apart and alone operated by TLC Operations, Inc. Both corporations are beneath the ancestor company, Tammy Lynn Center, Inc. All organizations are 501 (c) (3) entities, and contributions are tax deductible according to IRS rules and regulations. Visit tammylynncenter.org.
Media Contact:
Jessica Heilmann
Tammy Lynn Center for Developmental Disabilities
(919) 755-2661
jheilmann@tammylynncenter.org
Brian Van Norman
(919) 232-5008
brian@articulon.com
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