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For immediate release: October 5, 2007
Contact:
Margaret Dubuisson
504-592-5691
mdubuisson@archdiocese-no.org
Corinne Knight
504-592-5690
cknight@archdiocese-no.org
USA Dance Partners with Catholic Charities Hope Haven Center to present “A Dance For Hope”
(Metairie, LA) – USA Dance, a ballroom dancing organization, will host a benefit dance on Sunday, October 14 to support the children of Catholic Charities Hope Haven Center. USA Dance has been providing ballroom dance lessons to the abused, neglected and troubled children of Hope Haven Center for several months, and hopes to raise funds to be able to continue to underwrite this service.
The benefit dance will be from 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm and will feature music by The Encore Orchestra, a silent auction, a raffle, a buffet and Pro-Am exhibitions. Tickets are $25 and the attire is semi-formal.
About USA Dance: The LA Gumbo Chapter of USA Dance’s mission is to improve the quality of ballroom dancing and increase awareness of ballroom dancing as an enjoyable and worthwhile pastime. The LA Gumbo Chapter includes dancers from Baton Rouge, Houma, Mandeville, Metairie and New Orleans. The LA Gumbo Chapter holds monthly dances in Houma and Metairie, and encourages participation at dances of other social dance clubs. They also support ballroom dance clubs in area schools with $500 grants for professional dance instructors. For more information, visit www.usabdanola.org.
About Catholic Charities Hope Haven Center: Hope Haven Center is one of 52 programs operated by Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans. Located in an iconic Marrero building, Hope Haven is a residential treatment facility for children and adolescents 5-18 with mild to serious behavioral, educational, emotional and/or family problems. Services include psychiatric /psychological evaluation and treatment; behavior management; individual, family and group psychotherapy; health services; special education services; recreational programs; and religious participation. For more information about Hope Haven Center and the programs of Catholic Charities, please visit www.ccano.org.
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