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Hope Revisited center almost ready; open house is Saturday
BY SARAH FAY CAMPBELL sarah@newnan.com
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oweta's first visitation center for foster children and their parents is almost ready, and an open house event will be held Saturday. Hope Revisited is a new organization working to help foster children and their biological parents, and the major way it is doing that is through opening the visitation center. The center has freshly painted, well-appointed rooms designed for babies, toddlers, tweens and teens to meet with their biological parents in a safe, stable and pleasant environment. Usually, for supervised visits, parents and children have to meet at a park or a crowded indoor restaurant playground, or drive to the northside of Atlanta for a visitation center. None of which are particularly conducive to meaningful visits and restoring bonds. Hope Revisited's new center is located at 125 Jefferson St., across from Pizza Hut. The open house will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Re-
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Hope Revisited board member Edward Lee, board president Jennifer Nolder, volunteer Molly Milap and board member Mindy Smith share a laugh in the toddler room at the Hope Revisited visitation center.
freshments will be served. "We encourage the community to come out and take a look at what we are," said Jennifer Nolder, board president of Hope Revisited. Board members will be on hand to talk about the organization and future programming. "People can come and ask questions and find
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out how they can get involved," she said. Volunteers have spent the last two months taking an old building and freshening it up. Colors and decor were chosen to be calming and soothing as well as fresh and welcoming. "We want people to feel warm
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and at home," Nolder said. In addition to the visiting rooms, there is a kitchen for quick meals, with an air fryer oven, microwave and stocked refrigerator, and a dining room that families can use.
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