Thank you to all the generous individuals and businesses in our communities! Roof Sit has raised $82,451 to date, and that number keeps growing. WKFR
Disc Jockeys and our therapists sleep and broadcast from the roof of Helzberg Diamonds and Hairmasters for 3 days, helping to raise money for programs that treat and prevent child abuse and neglect.
This year, those three days were filled with fun events including the Carrabba’s Italian Grill kick-off dinner and auction, Family Fun night, and the Glamorous Girlfriends Party. We are so grateful to all of our sponsor, our volunteers, and the donors.
While all of this was going on at the Roof Sit site, hundreds of volunteers were out at the Shell gas stations, pumping gas and washing windshields for tips. Tips for Kids raised $13,584. The en fuego Student Ministries and Portage Central High School Athletes raised $2,290, Galesburg Shell employees raised $1,551, Kalamazoo Outlaws Semi-pro Football team raised $1,474, and the Kalamazoo Public Safety Department raised $1,386. For a list of all the Tips for Kids Teams, go to roofsit.com.
Prior to Roof Sit, the athletes at Kids Gym raised $3,000 in a cart-wheel-a-thon, and the Kalamazoo Metro Bowling Association raised $1,404 in a Bowling Sweeper Tournament.
The funds raised at Roof Sit benefit children and families who live right here in our community by receiving help from the Children’s Advocacy Center and Infant and Children’s Services programs.
The Children's Advocacy Center (CAC) offers compassionate, specialized care for children who are victims of sexual or physical abuse. The goals of the CAC are to reduce the traumatic effects of abuse; protect children from maltreatment; seek justice for child victims; and investigate abuse as a team, while keeping the comfort and safety of the child the first priority. CAC therapists, physicians, police, prosecutors and victim advocates work together to help the child and their family through the legal process as well as the healing process. In order to minimize the trauma a child experiences from having to repeat the events of the sexual abuse many times, the child may be interviewed, for the purposes of law enforcement, in the caring environment of the CAC, by a specially trained counselor. The interview is taped for the purpose of prosecuting the abuser. Each year we provide these services to at least 220 new children, in addition to those that are already in treatment.
The Infant and Parent Services programs offer in-home support for families with young children 0-6 years old. We provide help with parental risk factors such as teen parents, unstable housing, addiction, poverty, lack of family support or parenting knowledge. We promote optimal social, emotional, cognitive and physical development for infants, toddlers and preschoolers, while strengthening the family unit.
These services are provided to families at no cost.
Planning for Roof Sit 2012 will begin in the fall. If you would like to join the Roof Sit planning committee, contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
