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Talbot Hall Staff and Alumni Volunteer Plant Trees in Newark for Arbor Day
West Caldwell, NJ April 20 -
Staff and alumni from Talbot Hall teamed up with community members to celebrate Arbor Day and plant trees in Newark, New Jersey on April 19. Talbot Hall is Community Education Centers, Inc.'s 500-bed assessment and treatment center for the New Jersey Department of Corrections in Kearny, New Jersey. The trees were planted at the Peshine School in Newark, whose students took an active part in supporting the Arbor Day volunteers.
"The staff of Talbot Hall and CEC alumni deserve a congratulations for their volunteer work today. Planting trees represents a wonderful way to beautify a city and the streets of Newark look much brighter today thanks to their efforts,' said Dr. Robert Mackey, Senior Vice President for Clinical Service, Quality Assurance, and Research.
The volunteer event was sponsored by The New Jersey Tree Foundation, a state-wide
non-profit organization dedicated to planting trees in NJ's most under-served neighborhoods. From their web page, "There are many ways the trees can be used to beautify your neighborhood. Trees can be planted in a vacant lot to create an urban forest, planted as a windbreak for a community garden or at a school, planted in a nursery, or trees can be planted randomly throughout a park or cemetery."
Learn more about The New Jersey Trees Foundation here.
Community Education Centers, Inc. (CEC) is a leading provider of offender reentry and
in-prison treatment services in America, operating in 17 states and the Commonwealth of Bermuda, with over 30,000 individuals in its daily care. CEC provides a full range of therapeutic residential and non-residential reentry services with a documented record of reducing recidivism. |
