Project Playhouse
August 25 – September 14, 2008 - HomeAid San Diego and Child Abuse
Prevention Foundation Team Up on Padres Playhouse at Petco Park
What: Padres Playhouse at Petco Park
When: Padres home games from August 25 – September 14
Where: East Village Gate at Petco Park. San Diego
San Diego, CA – This ‘back to school’ season HomeAid San Diego and Child Abuse
Prevention Foundation, two teams that are joining in the fight to help eliminate
homelessness and child abuse in San Diego, are offering a custom playhouse to
online bidders in support of their cause. This opportunity also features
another team, San Diego’s own Padres, and a unique and fully functional
Playhouse built for the ultimate Padres fan.
Pardee Homes has joined HomeAid San Diego and Child Abuse Prevention Foundation
to create a Padres Playhouse that includes a flat screen television,
baseball-themed and “gym locker” furniture, a radio/CD player and a small
study/seating nook with baseball accessories. The Playhouse will be on display
at PETCO Park for 13 home games between August 25 and September 14, 2008.
During this stretch the Padres take on each and every division rival.
The Padres Playhouse is available for purchase through an online auction where
Padre’s fans and interested buyers can bid on the Playhouse at
http://capfsd.kintera.org/playhouse. The online auction will be complete at the
end of October when the lucky winner of this one-of-a-kind Padre’s treasure will
be announced.
Please join HomeAid San Diego, Child Abuse Prevention Foundation and the San
Diego Padres as we strive to provide dignified housing for our temporarily
homeless citizens and advocate for our young children to help break the cycle of
child abuse.
Homelessness is epidemic in San Diego. An estimated 10,000-15,000 people are
without a home on any given night in our county. Nearly one-third of foster
children become homeless in the 12- months after they turn 18 years old.
HomeAid San Diego and the Child Abuse Prevention Foundation have a strong
partnership working to change this, to improve our community for all of our
citizens, including those who are currently homeless and the abused and
neglected children who ended up in foster care through no fault of their own.
HomeAid San Diego builds multi-unit housing to serve temporarily homeless
families and individuals. The housing is built using skilled labor and
materials - a significant portion of which is generously donated by San Diego’s
real estate community. In San Diego, where over 10,000 individuals are homeless
each night, HomeAid San Diego has completed seven projects and has one project
under construction, and others in various stages of development. The projects
are donated to local nonprofit charities such as Child Abuse Prevention
Foundation, Catholic Charities, Interfaith Community Services, South Bay
Community Services, San Pasqual Academy, and Community Resource Center for them
to operate after they are completed. HomeAid San Diego, one of 22 chapters of
HomeAid America, Inc., was founded in March 2002 with the support of local
building and real estate industry organizations. HomeAid is the nation’s
largest provider of housing for the temporarily homeless. To date, over 150
housing projects have been built nationally with another 62 in development.
These projects provide shelter for more than 80,000 temporarily homeless
individuals.
The Child Abuse Prevention Foundation was founded in 1981 to break the cycle of
child abuse and is well-known for raising $12 million to build the Polinsky
Children’s Center (PCC), San Diego’s only emergency shelter for children, which
has served over 40,000 children in crisis since opening in 1994. Beyond
providing support to the children who come to stay at PCC, CAPF has established
a continuum of services available to those youth in order to provide them with
what their parents will not.
The Foundation educates and advocates on behalf of the 7,000 children (on any
given day) in San Diego who cannot live safely at home, while working to prevent
abuse from affecting even more children. CAPF gives them the tools,
opportunities and guidance they need to address the abuse they have suffered and
grow into healthy, happy and successful adult members of our community, breaking
the cycle of child abuse.