Vineland Daily Journal reports on Seabrook House donating supplies
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Vineland Daily Journal
UPPER DEERFIELD -- Seabrook House, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility, has donated a variety of items from its now-closed MartiArk Family Center to local nonprofit organizations.
The donations, particularly, are targeted to organizations that help at-risk mothers and children, according to President Edward M. Diehl.
"These items are much needed by other agencies and we're happy to help them fulfill their missions by donating valuable supplies they can use," Diehl said.
Seabrook shut down the MatriArk program Dec. 31, citing a decline in state funding.
The state has asked Seabrook to repay more than $2 million in state funds used to build the unit that housed the MatriArk Family Center.
Spokeswoman Jennifer Lawson said the items included books, toys, daycare furniture, cribs, bookshelves, high chairs, cribs, DVDs, children's clothing, puzzles and games.
The agencies that received donations include Humble Hearts, a Bridgeton-based shelter for homeless women and children; Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention in Bridgeton; A HEART, which assists at-risk infants and caregivers in Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem counties; TriCounty Community Action Partnership WIC Program in Cumberland County; Hazel's Helping Hands, which makes quilts for children in foster care in Cumberland County; the Center for Family Services, which provides outpatient substance abuse services for mothers, a program for children exposed to domestic violence; and a mother and child residential program.
Seabrook House, in business since 1974, provides detoxification and inpatient rehabilitation for adults. In addition, it offers professional family intervention services
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