Highmark Caring Place to Honor Central Pennsylvania Volunteers Who Committed Over 5,000 Hours to Grievin...( CAMP HILL Pa. June 24 /- The High...),Health

CAMP HILL, Pa., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The Highmark Caring Place will recognize 175 volunteers at a dinner event tomorrow evening at the West Shore Country Club. These individuals have collectively volunteered more than 5,000 hours -- an average of nearly 30 hours each during the past year -- in support of grieving children, adolescents and their families at the Caring Place facility at 3 Walnut Street in Lemoyne.

"The Highmark Caring Place sessions for grieving children and their parents or guardians are available at no cost to any grieving family in the community and are conducted to a large extent by trained volunteers," said Highmark Caring Place Director Terese Vorsheck. "Their support is integral to the program's success as they create a safe place where children and their families can know that they are not alone in their grief and understand that hope and healing are possible."

Volunteers at the Caring Place serve a variety of roles including group session facilitators, food servers, family greeters, quilters and more. Volunteers who work directly with the grieving children and adults in the group sessions complete an extensive 26-hour training session.

Volunteers who will receive special acknowledgment at the volunteer event for their five years of service to the Highmark Caring Place include:

-- Laura Acker, a resident of Carlisle, Cumberland Co., who serves as a Support Group Volunteer

-- Roni Collier, a resident of Mechanicsburg, Cumberland Co., who serves as a Support Group Volunteer

-- Jane Davis, a resident of New Cumberland, Cumberland Co., who serves as a quilter

-- Nancy Deal, a resident of Dillsburg, York Co., who serves as a Support Group Volunteer

-- Karen Fisher, a resident of New Cumberland, York Co., who serves as a Support Group Volunteer

-- Carol Holder, a resident of Mechanicsburg, Cumberland Co., who serves as a Support Group Volunteer and a quilter

-- Diane Jan
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