Telecare TV
On March 24th Bob Policastro from Angela’s House visited
Telecare TV to on the show “Good News” an interview based program.
The interview was with Msgr Jim Vlaun. The show features some of the positive stories going on in our faith community. We discussed the work we do with families of medically fragile children and the new “Angel of Hope” statue.
Telecare is the catholic TV station of the Diocese of Rockville Centre
Picture yourself in a hospital delivery room, filled with excitement about becoming a parent. In an instant, joy turns to angst as the doctor informs you your child was born with an illness or a disability. You lose touch with friends, become engulfed in hospital treatments and your life is nothing you ever imagined it would be. You’re left with no way of caring for the child you love more than anything in world, both monetarily and physically, because the only treatment centers are out of state. This scenario prompted the founding of Angela’s House, dedicated to improve the quality of life for families and children with a severe disability or medical condition.
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The National English Honor Society had a Talent show on March 12 to benefit Angela’s House.
The students , staff and teachers performed and the money raised was donated to Angela’s House.
Angel of Hope
A Winter visit to the Angel of Hope
The Angel glows in the snow
The new engraved bricks will be placed by the statue in the spring.
The group ” Something for seniors” made bibs and pillows for the children
In 2007 Bob Policastro the founder and Executive Director of Angela’s House met Pat Cassetta by chance. From that day Pat , Angelo and Bob worked on bringing the Angel of Hope statue to Eisenhower Park to honor all parents that have lost a child. On December 7th 2008 we had a breath taking opening ceremony along with a candle light vigil. This project would not be possible without the help and devotion of Pat Cassetta and Angelo Ciotta.
We felt it would be important to explain how we came to this decision. The term “Technology Dependent Children” was created over 20 years ago to medically describe and categorize children with special health care needs. This term was meant to simplify the difficult overall description of the hundreds and thousands of rare diseases, illness and accident-related medical conditions. At the time it was easier to use this term to help describe the children.
When we first chose to use this term for the name of our non-profit agency, we felt it would become well recognized in the community. Unfortunately, the use of this term was reduced by both our federal and state governments. By the time our first Angela´s House opened in 2000, we saw how well received it was and we also saw that people in the community knew us more from Angela´s House than from ATDC. We decided at that point to use both names to describe ATDC for our home care services and Angela´s House for our home-away-from-home alternative for children. Over the past seven years, the term “Technology Dependent Children” was not used and Angela´s House became more familiar to people.
The decision was made to change our name to Angela´s House. All of our services will remain the same. We will continue to support parents caring for their children at home and we will continue to offer out-of-home alternatives for children that can no longer live with their parents. We understand that we are still faced with the enormity of trying to explain to our community which children we work with. Our best description is to say we work with children with special health care needs that are medically fragile, chronically ill or living with a life threatening illness.
The Ancient Order of Hibernians Division 3 from Kings Park presented a check to Angela’s House during their meeting in February.
The Angela’s House Gala Committee has been busy making baskets for the dinner on March 26, 2009. Please email for any information.
Mr. Hanley is the creator of Networking for a Cause, an organization that raises money, food, clothing and toys for various charities likes to make a person’s life just a little better.
“We like to brighten people’s lives,” he said. Read More
