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While the station will maintain its regular musical format throughout the day, listeners will be treated to two to four segment breaks per hour devoted Tennyson Center and the radiothon. Each break will feature heartwarming stories of survival and success from a variety of guests including TCC alumni as well as parents and families of children currently at Tennyson. On‐air interviews will also include endorsements from local dignitaries and celebrities including Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock, Colorado Lt. Governor Joe Garcia, legendary jazz singer and long‐time Tennyson supporter Hazel Miller, and KUSA‐9News anchor Gary Shapiro among others. Listeners will be encouraged to make donations to support the programs at Tennyson Center and to join in the fight against child abuse and neglect.
Tennyson Center for Children is the Rocky Mountain region’s leading treatment center and school for abused, neglected and crisis‐affected children and is also one of America’s leaders in the fight against child abuse and neglect. In existence for 108 years, Tennyson serves as many as 600 children every year as well as nearly 1,500 family members to help them heal from the emotional and psychological wounds of abuse. Since becoming Colorado’s first nationally accredited treatment center in 1981, Tennyson has treated and healed more than 18,000 children.
Every year in Colorado, at least 20,000 children are abused or neglected. Last year, that figure rose to 39,400. An average of 30 children in Colorado die every year due to abuse. To compound the problem, funding from government sources for organizations like Tennyson Center has been cut drastically over the past five years, so support from the community has become a key component to the nationally‐ accredited agency’s survival and success.
Tennyson Center has also been lauded for its work with GLBT youth who have suffered from abuse and neglect and has been instrumental in the treatment and successful fostering of several adolescents who were abused and even disowned by their families because of their sexual or gender orientation issues.
Bob Cooper, Tennyson President and CEO, said, “We are grateful to our friends at KOOL 105 and everyone at Wilks‐Denver Broadcasting for this incredible opportunity to raise awareness of the work we do every single day at Tennyson Center and to help raise funds to continue to serve so many kids who need our programs. But this event will also help us in our efforts to expand and augment our programs and services so that we can serve even more children who suffer from a variety of life‐altering crises.”
Listeners will have three ways to donate: by phone, online or through a text‐to‐give protocol on their cell phones. They will also be encouraged to participate in a series of donation challenges from local businesses and corporations in the hopes of raising in excess of $25,000 during the course of the day.
“We know this is a tough economy right now,” said Dave Sevick, Tennyson Marketing and Communications Director. “But the number of child deaths from abuse over the past year have skyrocketed right here in Colorado and this is a chance for the community to step up and say ‘ENOUGH!’ and to make a powerful impact upon the lives of so many innocent kids. “
You can donate to Tennyson Center at www.childabuse.org or make a quick $10 donation on your cell phone by texting the word CHILD to 50555.
