"Family Fall Festival" Raises Funds for VNA of Central Jersey

More than 170 families enjoyed an afternoon of fall fun on Sunday, October 14 at Scothigh in Rumson, New Jersey, with festive autumn activities including a pumpkin patch, arts and crafts, face painting, pony rides, a petting zoo, a magic show, a chance auction, food and refreshments and more in support of Visiting Nurse Association Health Group programs for vulnerable, at risk children and families. The 27^th annual fall event hosted by the VNACJ Children’s Auxiliary now called the “Family Fall Festival at Scothigh” raised over $32,000 to benefit the VNA’s Children and Family Health Institute. The Children and Family Health Institute connects over 50,000 families annually to a broad array of health and education services including comprehensive primary care for children; case management services for children with special needs and their families; home nursing care for acutely ill children and a home visitation program that provides support to new mothers. Several patients and their families were sponsored enabling them to attend and share in the magic of Family Fall Festival at Scothigh Farm.

For more information about Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey, the Children’s Auxiliary and the Children and Family Health

Institute, please visit www.vnahg.org.

About Visiting Nurse Association Health Group

Visiting Nurse Association Health Group is the largest independent, nonprofit provider of home-based health services in New Jersey and mid-Ohio. Founded over 106 years ago with a mission to care for the community, today VNA Health Group helps individuals and families achieve their best level of health and well-being by providing high quality, compassionate home health care, hospice, palliative and community-based care and offering private-pay personal care services. VNA Health Group employs nearly than 2,500 individuals and cares for over 150,000 individuals and families annually with a special focus on vulnerable populations such as children, older adults and those with serious and disabling chronic illness. VNA Health Group’s Children and Family Health Institute connects families with health care services and education at all stages of life. The Institute provides comprehensive primary care for children, case management services for children with special needs and their families and home visitation to new and expecting mothers.

VNA Health Group Foundation works with individuals, corporations, foundations and volunteers like the VNACJ Children’s Auxiliary to raise needed funds through a variety of programs including thrift shops, special events, planned gifts, capital campaigns, memorial gifts and major gifts. For more information about VNA Health Group , VNACJ Children’s Auxiliary, the Children and Family Health Institute and the VNAHG Foundation please call 800.862.3330, visit www.vnahg.org and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/VNAHealthGroup or @VNAHealthGroup.