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$3,000 to Community Health Awareness Council


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Thursday, August 30, 2007

Pictured left to right: Los Altos/Mountain View District Chiar Toby Vanderbeek, Silicon Valley Realtors® Charitable Foundation Trust Cindy Luedtke and CHAC Executive Director Monique Kane.

The Silicon Valley Realtors® Charitable Foundation presented the Community Health Awareness Council (CHAC) with a grant for $3,000 at last week's Los Altos/Mountain View District Tour Meeting. Silicon Valley Realtors® Charitable Foundation Trust Cindy Luedtke presented the check to Monique Kane, executive director of CHAC.

CHAC was created due to concern about the growing problem of adolescent alcohol and drug abuse. CHAC seeks to provide alternatives to such self-destructive behavior and to help create healthy lives for the children and families of Mountain View, Los Altos and Los Altos Hills.

Kane said SILVAR's Charitable Foundation grant will help support CHAC's Prevention Plus school-based counseling program, which is designed to assist students in these communities build the internal and external assets that will protect them from future high-risk behaviors, while promoting positive  attitudes, skills and behaviors that will help insure their personal and academic success. Of the 1,200 at-risk students, CHAC expects to serve this year, approximately 756 come from low and very low income families who live in these communities. The grant will be used for stipends for over 55 graduate intern volunteers who work at the CHAC counseling center in Mountain View and are assigned to one of 23 local schools CHAC serves.

Kane thanked the Silicon Valley Realtors® Charitable Foundation for its ongoing support. The Charitable Foundation has provided CHAC's Prevention Plus program with financial support annually since 2003. Luedtke also thanked SILVAR Realtors and affiliates for their generous donations and for supporting their communities through the Silicon Valley Realtors® Charitable Foundation.



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