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Twin Cedars Opens Coleman Community Center
LaGrange, GA - Twin Cedars Youth Services, Inc. has scheduled the grand opening and dedication ceremony for the newly renovated Coleman Community Center on Thursday, September 4 at 10am. Located at 701 Lincoln Street, the 13,440 square foot facility will serve as the organization’s central headquarters housing Twin Cedars’ community counseling services, teen parenting and prevention programming, as well as the Children’s Advocacy Center of Troup County. Funding secured from the Fuller E. Callaway Foundation, Inc., during summer 2007 allowed for the renovation of the former Coleman Library. “What the community has needed is a centrally located facility where children and adolescents can receive individual or group therapy to overcome an array of problems,” commented TCYS Executive Director Mike Angstadt. “With the addition of this new facility we are reinforcing our commitment to serving children and families in need in the LaGrange and surrounding communities,” Angstadt furthered
Highlights of the facility include a Supervised Family Visitation Center, SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner) examination room, multiple individual and group therapy areas, a demonstration kitchen, as well as newly installed playground equipment. A spacious training room serves both Twin Cedars’ Staff and community stakeholders. The Camp Viola Board, Child Fatality Review Board, Troup County Prevention Coalition and many other groups, councils and boards now utilize the meeting space.
Scheduled to speak at the Dedication on September 4th are Normer Adams, Executive Director of the Georgia Association for Homes and Services for Children, and Representative Randy Nix (Georgia’s 69th District) Speer Burdett, President of the Callaway Foundation, Inc., will also be present for remarks.The mission of Twin Cedars is to provide programs and services empowering children, youth and families to achieve their optimum potential. For more information please cal (706) 577-1467 or visit www.twincedars.org.