Dr. Sara Fonseca and her family paid a visit to Cinnaminson House on Christmas Day.
For the last 16 years, Dr. Sara Fonseca and family have helped the Cinnaminson House with a large gift for the house, and individual $100 gift cards to all 11 residents of the house. This year, the Cinnaminson House received a new refrigerator in addition to the 11 gift cards.
Fonseca, who is an endodontist in Moorestown, became aware of the Cinnaminson House when she was volunteering and performing root canals therapy for a resident of the house, and a friendship was found. For the first 10 years on Christmas morning before opening gifts at her residence in Moorestown, Fonseca and her family went to visit the Cinnaminson House with fresh baked goods and gifts. During one of the years, a resident was crying and she said, “this was the best Christmas I ever have had in my life,” and that brought a tear to everyone in the rooms eyes.
The Cinnaminson House focuses on school and work achievements and is a residential treatment home that provides young adults with an opportunity to practice the skills needed for independent living. The program provides life skills training with medium level supervision to offer a balance of independence and supportive care. In this setting, residents may safely learn, grow, make mistakes and learn more knowing that they have a supportive and caring staff there to help guide their decision making, before leaving the system.
Cinnaminson House empowers young adults by promoting positive, healthy youth development, enhancing daily living and self-sufficiency skills, and fostering responsibility, resiliency, and respect for self and others. Safe, stable residential services provide the base for individualized programming designed to identify, build upon, promote, and celebrate talents, skills, and positive character traits as well as to address deficits in learning or adolescent development.
The program equips homeless youth who are 16 to 21 years old with the assets, skills, and resources they will need to find and maintain gainful employment, maintain stable housing and build healthy relationships, establishing a solid foundation for healthy, independent living. In Crossroads’ continuum of transitional programs for youth aging out of foster care, Cinnaminson House provides a mid-level of independence with monitoring of activities, employment, and education. These youth typically still need guidance and counseling in their everyday decision making.
Cinnaminson House serves male and female youth who demonstrate the motivation and potential to benefit from independent living services in order to successfully transition to independent young adulthood. Program participants must participate in group activities in the home, must attend a public or an alternative school, and should be working on at least a part-time basis.
Fonseca’s practice is limited to Endodontics. “ Root Canal Therapy” and located on Lenola Road in Moorestown.
