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The Community Foundation of Central Blue Ridge, the Al Stroobants Foundation, and the Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation awarded DePaul a combined $15,500 this year to enhance activities for participants in our OPTIONS day support programs in Madison Heights and Fishersville, Virginia. DePaul’s OPTIONS centers provide welcoming, supportive spaces where individuals with disabilities can truly belong. Each day is filled with activities—both inside the center and out in the community—designed around the abilities, interests, and goals of each participant. Thanks to these generous grants, our OPTIONS centers received vital program support that allowed participants to engage in meaningful, enriching, and fun experiences beyond the walls of the center.

The Marietta McNeill Morgan and Samuel Tate Morgan, Jr. Trust and the Nunnally Foundation awarded funding to support critical training needs and CPR equipment for our Amelia and Hanover offices, ensuring high‑quality instruction for sponsored providers, families, and staff in the Richmond area. Infant, child, and adult CPR and First Aid training is mandatory for all sponsored providers and staff before they can care for individuals with disabilities. Because many of the individuals we serve have significant medical needs, this training is especially vital. These grants also equipped six DePaul service locations with life‑saving AEDs, including our offices in Roanoke, Lynchburg, Abingdon, Hanover, Amelia, and Christiansburg. Together, these locations provide a wide range of services to individuals with disabilities, children, and families across the state—such as sponsored residential services, foster care, adoption, counseling, agency‑directed services, and more.

In 2025, DePaul received generous grants totaling over $40,000 from the C. Bascom Slemp Foundation, The Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia, the National Home Library Foundation, and Children’s Speedway Charities to support our Foster Care, Adoption, and Kinship Care programs. This external support allows DePaul to help children and families avoid devastating outcomes and ensures our foster families can provide safe, nurturing home environments with the standard of care every child deserves. Without the commitment of these foundations and charities, DePaul would not have been able to meet the critical needs of these young children or provide the essential support we need for our programs.

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