On Saturday evening, Jan. 20, the Berks County Parrot Head Club hosted their annual “Cabin Fever” event at the DoubleTree Hotel in Reading to benefit CONCERN’s Greater Berks foster care programs and raising $11,580 in the process.
The Berks County Parrot Head Club is one of a network of 235 nonprofit organizations across North America and Australia of Jimmy Buffet enthusiasts whose purpose is to engage in activities that are charitable, educational, and promote the general welfare of the community.
The motto of the club is to “party with a purpose” and they certainly proved that evening that having fun and raising money for a good cause do not have to be mutually exclusive.
More than 200 people joined in the festivities enjoying the sounds of the Southern Drawl Band, eating and drinking the beverage of their choice, partaking in various raffles and silent auction items, and enjoying auctioneer Dick Henry as he presided over the live auction all to benefit the children and youth served by CONCERN in Berks County.
Founded in 1978, CONCERN a multi-service private non-profit 501(c)(3) human services organization dedicated to providing placement and treatment services to children and their families providing a growing array of foster care, adoption and permanency, community-based, residential, and behavioral health services. Since this time more than 15,000 children and youth have been placed into CONCERN’s care.
A pioneer of treatment foster care, CONCERN believes that children placed in foster care should live in a traditional family setting in the community, rather than in a residential or institutional setting. Over the past 40 years, CONCERN has been at the forefront of innovative programs to meet the individual needs of the child and to promote the strengthening of the family unit.
For more information about CONCERN and foster parenting, please visit us at www.concern4kids.org.
