Exchange Club barbecue is Feb. 4
Dinner includes half chicken, beans, applesauce and two cookies. All meals are $10.
The Dover Exchange Club Children’s Foundation will host its ninth annual carryout chicken barbecue on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 4 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Fundays, 1345 Fourth St. NW in New Philadelphia.
The carryout barbecue will be held rain or shine. Those with prepaid tickets should arrive by 3 p.m. to guarantee pickup.
Dinner includes half chicken, beans, applesauce and two cookies. All meals are $10.
This year’s event will benefit the Tuscarawas County Child Advocacy Center. Last year the foundation gave $6,500 to the CAC, which brought a four-year total to $24,300.
According to director Vanessa Stergios, the CAC is an independent nonprofit coordinating the efforts of the designated county agencies and community partners to promote a specialized, comprehensive, multi-disciplinary approach to child abuse from disclosure through treatment to reduce future trauma and promote recovery and resiliency for children and families. The CAC has been in existence since June 2011 and has served over 400 children from Tuscarawas County.
The TCCAC emphasizes the coordination of the investigation and intervention services to child-abuse victims by bringing together professionals and agencies as a multi-disciplinary team using a child-focused approach, providing the highest standards of care in a child-friendly facility to the community’s most vulnerable victims.
The National Children’s Alliance sets the standards for providing best practice care in these complicwated cases and serves as the accrediting body of Child Advocacy Centers around the country. In January of 2016 the Tuscarawas County Child Advocacy Center was recognized as a fully accredited center, meeting or exceeding all of the criteria in the standards.
Partnering members for the CAC are ADAMHS Board, Akron Children’s Hospital, law enforcement, mental health providers, Tuscarawas County Job and Family Services, Tuscarawas County Prosecutor’s Office and the Tuscarawas County Sheriff’s Office.