Energy
Homes breathes new life into
center for abused, neglected girls
Jan. 14, 2005
CANYON LAKE - The New Life
Children’s Center for abused girls at Canyon Lake is the
recipient of a newly modified, energy-efficient house from Energy
Homes in New Braunfels. Energy Homes is using the house as a prototype
for an innovative line of cost-effective, hurricane-resistant
homes designed to be built from start to finish in three days.
The new technology will be used to provide immediate assistance
to countries affected by natural disaster, in need of housing.
The three bedroom house will be located on New Life’s 20-acre
campus and will be used for admissions and visitations.
“The new building will provide a quiet, homelike environment
for the girls,” said Phyllis Turner, clinic director for
New Life. “The privacy will make the admissions process more
intimate and the visitations more relaxed. This is a wonderful
opportunity for us to improve the quality of life for the girls.”
“Energy Homes shares our commitment to providing help, healing
and hope to those in need,” said Bob Slocum, interim executive
director of New Life. “We take in clients who are at their
most vulnerable, when their lives have been shattered by abuse
and neglect, and do our best to rebuild their future. We are blessed
to be a part of this project.”
“The whole project is designed to help others,” said
Jim Hafer, project manager for Energy Homes. “We were overjoyed
to be able to start in our own community by donating the first
home to New Life.”
Construction will begin on Wednesday, Jan 19, at New Life Children’s
Center, 650 Scarborough Rd. For more information, contact Alma
Ahrens, Energy Homes public relations specialist, at (512) 659-4286.
New Life Children’s Center, a ministry of Lutheran Social
Services, provides treatment for girls, ages 11 to 17, who suffer
from behavioral and emotional problems, usually the result of
past abuse and neglect.
With four residential treatment centers serving more than 230
children everyday, and an award-winning foster care program that
has more than 900 children, LSS is the largest provider of residential
services to abused and neglected children in Texas.
Lutheran Social Services of the South is the social service arm
of The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America. The nonprofit agency annually serves more than
25,000 children, elderly and poor in Texas and Louisiana regardless
of religious beliefs, ethnicity, gender or age. It’s ministry
includes children’s residential treatment centers, adoption,
therapeutic foster care, adult day care, health care and retirement
centers, disaster response and emergency assistance.
