Snow angels. Sledding.  Snowmen.

Remember your childhood winters? Perhaps your memories are filled with warm moments by the fire, sipping hot chocolate with your brothers or sisters, or chilly days skating on the neighbor’s pond with your friends, or sledding down the big hill knowing that your mom or dad wouldn’t let go of you.


Sadly, not every child shares those happy moments. But at Pinebrook Family Services, our goal is to help children and young adults to live, laugh, love, and realize their potential to grow into strong, capable, self-sufficient adults. The possibilities are endless. The young adult we help today could be tomorrow’s doctor, nurse, teacher, musician, business leader, or even president of the United States.


Each year, Pinebrook helps nearly 2,000 children and young adults through our adoption, foster care, behavioral health (counseling), and other community-based programs. We know that times are difficult and needs are plentiful. But a contribution, of any amount, would be greatly appreciated and would help children right here in our own neighborhoods. A gift of:

- $25 could provide a child with a bag filled with new school supplies
- $50 could keep a teenager in school through our truancy-reduction program
- $100 could pay for counseling sessions for a family coping with loss and grief
- $250 could provide parenting classes to reach 20-30 at-risk families
- $500 could give a foster youth a scholarship to attend college

Donations of any amount would be greatly appreciated. To make a donation go to Online Giving
From all of us at Pinebrook Family Services, we thank you and wish you a happy holiday season!

Because of You...

Thank you so much to everyone who supported Pearl Jammin’ with Pinebrook, our largest fundraising event of the year! We are thrilled to announce we are just shy of reaching our $50,000 goal. Proceeds will help to fund Pinebrook’s adoption, placement, behavioral health and other community-based programs. Those of you who attended the event saw first-hand how your financial and in-kind donations as well as your time and energy have helped to make a positive difference.

For many, the highlight of the evening was a touching video of Soilymar, a foster youth who received the Ruth A. Rodgers Memorial Scholarship through Lighting Fixture and Supply Company, and overcame tremendous obstacles in her young life. Soilymar said it best when she told the audience, “Because of you, I learned that I could be something better. I could be myself. I could be the person who smiled and enjoyed life and I could be the person who danced for life.”

On behalf of the children, young adults and families who will benefit from your generosity, from the bottom of our hearts, we thank you.

Pearl Jammin with Pinebrook snapshots:

Pinebrook founder, Florence Applebaum, and
Executive Director, Bob Jacobs

Denise Kaplan, Board of Directors, and husband, Bob

Event planning committee member, Audrey E. Cherney

Bob Jacobs, Steve Stevenson and event planning
committee member Anne Young

Honorary Chair, Winifred DiLeo Melinsky, and Guest
Emcee, WLEV's Shelly Easton

Foster youth, Soliymar, and Shelly Easton

Pinebrook staff member Cecilia Lucas

Kathleen O'Malley and staff member Michael Shaffer,
Director of Social Services

Jeffrey Dobeck, President of Board of Directors, and
wife Kimberly

Board of Director members Christina Gettins,
Mary Stubbmann and Dorota Kozak

A New Beginning

Every child needs a safe and nurturing family, one that loves them unconditionally. For many children, this is unfortunately not the norm. They need help. Some of these children just need a little support, a comforting hand, a shoulder to lean on. Others with more severe psychological and emotional problems require a more substantial, determined and sustained effort. Since 1979, Pinebrook has been helping thousands of children in northeastern Pennsylvania to grow and thrive, one child at a time.

Families come in all shapes and sizes. Many of them, thought to be broken beyond repair, have been mended and made whole again through Pinebrook’s nurturing support.

Whether you need help, know someone who needs assistance, or wish to lend us a helping hand, please contact Pinebrook today.

Pinebrook Family Services is licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (DPW) and is nationally accredited by the Council on Accreditation (COA).

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