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Stephanie Bell grew up taking part in in the toddler dresses racks at The Being pregnant and Spouse and children Daily life Centre of Citrus County (PFLC).
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Her father, the late John Vincelli, 1-time president of Citrus County Ideal to Daily life, and her mother, Marianne Vincelli, started the heart in 1983, in a minimal white home on Tompkins Street in Inverness.
Around the a long time the centre has grown from a put that assisted expecting women and new moms with psychological and useful aid.
Today, the center that is nonetheless in the little white home on Tompkins Road offers a selection of expert services.
“The greatest misunderstanding men and women have is that we only help expecting females,” Bell stated. “We assistance families we assist veterans with foods. My mother serves the aged at the time a thirty day period with packing containers of food items that is sent to them. We support anyone.”
Their companies
The Being pregnant and Spouse and children Existence Middle of Citrus County presents: being pregnant assessments and ultrasounds, STD/STI assessments, food items, clothing, newborn home furnishings, parenting lessons, existence abilities teaching and adoption counseling.
Two of the center’s latest packages include things like giving free wellness providers and psychological wellbeing expert services.
Wellness products and services cover a no cost yearly bodily, PAP smear and lab do the job for any uninsured female about age 18. Expert services are furnished by Langley Well being Services and paid for by the PFLC.
In 2017, the heart commenced giving mental health and fitness and compound abuse counseling. Clients are screened for nervousness, melancholy and substance abuse.
Off-web page counseling products and services are via SMA (formerly Ecclesia Behavioral Well being) in Inverness and Tree of Daily life Counseling Centre in Floral City.
They also a short while ago added tele-psychiatric expert services, which includes prescription psychiatric meds.
Their funding
To protect their annual finances of $236,000, PFLC is funded by means of donations, assist from regional church buildings, the Knights of Columbus, Catholic Charities, grants and fundraising gatherings, this sort of as the approaching annual Walk for Existence on Oct. 15.
Neighborhood church buildings typically have “baby bottle drives” for the heart.
Their staff members
Beneath the course of Stephanie Bell, PFLC executive director who is also a registered nurse, the centre employs 4 workers members and is dependent on volunteers for a variety of responsibilities. At this time, they have about 30 volunteers but are normally looking for a lot more. To volunteer, call 352-344-3030.
Their mission
To modify the lives of households in Citrus County by bringing fact, hope and love to the world a single daily life at a time.
Even by means of the pandemic, the heart stayed active encouraging people who had been out of work and displaced by the pandemic.
Information
The centre recently been given a $135,000 grant from the Citrus County Local community Charitable Foundation. Amid other factors, they are employing the money to employ a registered nurse and to acquire a wrap for the center’s mobile device, which will go out into the group to supply pregnancy exams, ultrasounds and other solutions.
Information
The Pregnancy and Family Daily life Middle of Citrus County is at 317 Tompkins St., Inverness.
Telephone: 352-344-3030
E mail: [email protected]
Website: www.pflcenter.org
Facebook: www.fb.com/pflcenter