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SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 2022 6:00PM FEATURING Masters of Ceremonies Rick Sebak & Anna Singer SPECIAL CELEBRITY GUEST Joshua R. Dobbs of The Pittsburgh Steelers SPECIAL MESSAGES FROM Pam Keen, CEO Mike McCarren & Sue Byrne, Co-Chairs HONOREES The Robbins Family SPONSOR FEATURES ATOM Medical & BNY Mellon FUN AND GAMES Online Auction Tip Drawings Grand Prize Giveaway Fund The Mission
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WELCOME
Thank you for joining us for The Children’s Home & Lemieux Family Center’s 20th annual gala, Shake Your Booties Maskerade! Our gala looks a little different this year as we Shake Our Booties virtually, but our purpose remains the same: to raise funds to promote the health and well-being of infants and children through services which establish and strengthen the family. The Children’s Home staff has worked tirelessly to navigate the new challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. We are so proud of our staff who continue to provide exceptional care in our Pediatric Specialty Hospital, Child’s Way and our Adoption and Permanency programs. We are so grateful for our community and friends who have helped support us during these uncertain times. Although this year has brought so many challenges, we have been able to grow and expand. We added a one-of-a-kind program called TEMP – Temporary Emergent Medical Pediatric Program. This program assists families by providing inpatient hospital care when a caregiver requires respite and support. The Children’s Home also introduced our fourth and newest program, Pediatric VIEW, that provides assessment, treatment, and interventions for patients with CVI, Cortical Visual Impairment. While our services are critical to so many families, none of it would have been possible without you. Your support helps us raise crucial funds for families we serve at The Children’s Home. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
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Tonight, we celebrate! Sit back and enjoy this wonderful Maskerade program as we hear inspiring stories from our spectacular staff and families. As so many of you know, it takes months of planning, preparation, and hard work to put an event of this size and caliber together, especially with adapting to a virtual world. Our deepest thanks to: ■ Event Co-Chairs Michael McCarren and Sue Byrne, for their leadership ■ Our Shake Your Booties Committee, for their hard work and dedication ■ Josh Dobbs, our celebrity guest and ever-present volunteer at The Children’s Home, offering his time and resources to our patients and families ■ Rick Sebak and Anna Singer, for their ongoing support and uplifting personalities to bring you an entertaining evening ■ The Robbins Family, for their friendship and for sharing their journey with us tonight ■ The staff and volunteers, for their phenomenal hard work and dedication to bringing you an exciting evening ■ ATOM Medical, for supporting us as our Presenting Sponsor ■ YOU! Whether it’s your first year, or your 20th, Shake Your Booties couldn’t be a success without you! We are honored that you are here with us tonight! So, without further ado, throw on your most decorated Mask and let’s virtually Shake Our Booties together. Sincerely,
Pam Keen Chief Executive Officer
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SHAKE YOUR BOOTIES! Thank you for your commitment and support as you join us for The Children’s Home of Pittsburgh and Lemieux Family Center’s 20th annual Shake Your Booties! Our intention was to be together in person this year, but COVID altered our vision. However, we are excited to welcome you all to our virtual event. Building off last year’s success, we promise a night filled with entertainment and heartwarming and inspiring stories. We continue to appreciate the steadfast support and dedication from our generous sponsors, supportive attendees, and selfless volunteers as we continue to support The Children’s Home and the families that make it special. We, along with the Shake Your Booties committee, welcome you to our program and hope you enjoy yourselves. By being here, you are supporting the children and families who benefit from the programs of The Children’s Home & Lemieux Family Center: Adoption, Child’s Way, the Pediatric Specialty Hospital, our brand new Pediatric VIEW program and the Temporary Emergent Medical Pediatric Program (TEMP). We extend an extra special THANK YOU to all of our sponsors, both returning and new, whose loyalty and generosity have made Shake Your Booties possible. We offer a special thank you to our presenting Sponsor, ATOM Medical USA. Anthem Video has done a tremendous job of helping us pull together a virtual program so we can illustrate the journey and vision of The Children’s Home by capturing the captivating content and bringing our story telling to life. It takes a lot of committed people to pull off this event. Without the Shake Your Booties committee, Board Members, auction item donors, and volunteers we would not have this amazing event that we have been able to bring to you for the last 20 years.
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This year’s event honorees, The Robbins Family, will share their heartwarming experience with the Children’s Home and the adoption of their amazing son, Noah. Enjoy as The Marquadt Family and The Johnson Family share their personal testimonies and shed light on the importance of our new programs: Pediatric VIEW and TEMP. We hope you are entertained by our vibrant and engaging Co-Hosts, Rick Sebak and Anna Singer, who generously volunteered their time to be part of our virtual celebration. We are grateful for their continuous support and for helping us to share our virtual program and stories. We have the wonderful Joshua R. Dobbs of the Pittsburgh Steelers as our celebrity guest. Josh has been a beacon of light at The Children’s Home, as he has served as an upstanding role model in Child’s Way for several years. Graciously, Josh promotes our programs in person and even at a distance, throughout the pandemic. His presence at the Children’s Home brings smiles to everyone he encounters. His continued passion for “space” has led him to generously donate an incredible auction item, a trip to Space Camp! As you bring Shake Your Booties into your homes and on you laptops, phones and tablets, please remember that our programs would not be possible without your generosity, and know that your bids and donations will directly benefit the children and families The Children’s Home and Lemieux Family center serves. We cannot thank you enough for supporting the 20th Annual Shake Your Booties Maskerade. Sit back, grab your favorite beverage, we invite you to have fun, bid on an auction item, participate in our tip drawings or make a donation to help Fund The Mission!
Mike McCarren Co-Chair Shake Your Booties Maskerade
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RICK SEBAK Rick Sebak makes unusual television programs. His slightly wacky documentaries celebrate various aspects of modern American life and the unexpected charms of Pittsburgh. Audiences have learned to recognize his friendly narrative style and the unusual topics that he obviously loves. Many of Rick’s programs may make you want to travel. David Bianculli in The New York Daily News has written, “Rick Sebak is not a filmmaker. He’s a brainwasher. He’s a brainwasher because you can’t watch one of his effervescent films without having a very strong urge to follow in his footsteps and experience firsthand the places he presents so compellingly.” PBS stations around the country often rebroadcast Rick’s programs because audiences respond so favorably to the quirky blend of Americana, places and personalities. To highlight just a few of his projects: in 2008, Rick worked with the Engineers Society of Western Pennsylvania on a new local program called Invented, Engineered & Pioneered in Pittsburgh. He also explored the beauty and delicious possibilities of market houses, market places and farmers’ markets across America in 2007, resulting in a PBS program called To Market, To Market To Buy A Fat Pig. In 2007, Rick also released a program called Underground Pittsburgh about mushroom farms, national storage facilities, the shortest subway and the most productive coal mines in the world, among other subterranean topics. In 2006, he tried to figure out What Makes Pittsburgh Pittsburgh? and decided there was no | 11
easy answer, although in a program with that title, he considered hills and rivers, neighborhoods, the Steelers, and Red Ribbon Cherry pop made by Natrona Bottling. In 2003, after the death of Mister Rogers, Rick rewrote an earlier documentary he had made into a new program titled “Fred Rogers: America’s Favorite Neighbor.” For his work on this new program, Rick was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards: one for Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming, and another for his work as one of the producers of this Outstanding Nonfiction Special. Also in 2003, Rick celebrated some of the people and the places that have manufactured various goods in the Pittsburgh area in a program called Things We’ve Made. It included some steel (of course), Westinghouse air brakes, Del Monte soups and baby foods, Jensen Steam Engines and Iron City Beer among other things. PBS offered the show nationally in the summer of 2004. He has put together twenty-two individual special programs that make up what is called the Pittsburgh History Series, including a very popular 1988 program titled “Kennywood Memories” about the wonderful old amusement park near Pittsburgh, a show called “Pittsburgh A To Z,” one titled “North Side Story,” and a much imitated documentary titled “Things That Aren’t There Anymore.”
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ANNA SINGER Anna Singer is a talented Opera Singer, Music Curator and Painter in Oil paintings. Having been attracted at an early age to the visual and aural magic of on-stage musical productions, Anna Singer dreamed of becoming an opera singer. Through studies at Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University, Ms. Singer’s dreams were realized in decades of performance at opera houses in Europe and the United States. She displayed her vocal and dramatic talents in the lead roles of Madame Butterfly, Tosca, Aida, Salome, Die Walkure, Susanna, and many more. Returning from New York City to her home town of Pittsburgh, Ms. Singer added another chapter to her artistic portfolio when she joined the staff of the celebrated classical music radio station, WQED FM, where she has been an on-air host and music programmer for over twenty years. While interested in visual art from an early age, Ms. Singer’s latent interest was activated in 2009 when a friend and fellow artist literally enabled her to “try her hand”. Since that introduction, Ms. Singer has been guided by her inner muse in developing her own voice in painting, receiving guidance from numerous treatises, on-line courses and support networks, and in-person study with accomplished artists across the United States. It has been a journey of constant exploration, trial, error and course adjustment that has brought her to her current artistic waypoint and she looks forward to continued discovery.
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JOSHUA R. DOBBS Joshua Dobbs, a native of Alpharetta, Georgia, is a young man who possesses intelligence, leadership, and a natural ability to play the quarterback position. He developed two passions at a very early age: football, which he started playing at 5 years old, and airplanes. Currently a Quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, he earned his opportunity into the NFL through his on-field football success as a four-year Letterman and Team Captain for the University of Tennessee Volunteers. Joshua was also an incredibly bright student. He graduated from the Tickle College of Engineering, in May 2017, where he completed a five-year Aerospace Engineering degree and a Business Administration minor, all within four years. As a student-athlete, he also found time over his summer breaks to work two premiere internships at global aerospace manufacturer Pratt & Whitney - the first in West Palm Beach, Florida and the second in Montreal, Canada. Joshua is well known for his role as the quarterback for the Tennessee Volunteers from 2013-2016. He finished an illustrious college career at Tennessee holding several university records, while helping to resurrect the storied program with 24 wins, including 3-consecutive, bowl wins. As the Athlon's 2016 SEC Offensive Player of the Year, he was both the most productive quarterback and most productive offensive player in the Southeastern Conference. Joshua finished his Tennessee career with 86 touchdowns (53 passing, 31 rushing and 2 receiving). Only Peyton Manning had more TDs in Tennessee history (101 TDs). In 2018, only one year following his graduation from the UTK, Joshua was named to the UT Alumni Board of Directors as its youngest members. In addition, his hometown, North Atlanta UT 14 |
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Alumni Chapter established the R. Joshua Dobbs Scholarship, during the spring of his senior year in college. Within months, the scholarship was fully endowed through Joshua’s personal financial contributions and fundraising efforts. And in the fall of 2019, he was also appointed to the Tickle College of Engineering’s Board of Advisors. As a professional, Joshua was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers as the 135th pick in the 2017 NFL Draft. After two years with the organization, he was traded to the Jacksonville Jaguars at the start of the 2019 season. He was then reclaimed by the Steelers for the 2020 season. Forever an engineer, Joshua stays productive around his off-season training by seeking creative ways to fuel his second passion in aerospace. Over consecutives off seasons, he has attended the NSBE National Convention and NASA Adult Space Academy, where he was recognized with the camp’s “Right Stuff” award, volunteered at the Atlanta Science Festival, and participated in F-16 jet flight training with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds. Joshua spent his most recent 2020 and 2021 off-seasons as a NASA Intern at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and was amongst the few, invited guests to witness firsthand NASA-SpaceX’s historic launch of astronauts from Florida’s Space Coast for the first time in 9 years. Driven by a strong sense of service, Joshua is also well known for his work in the community. Recognized as a “Hometown Hero”, exemplifying the Volunteer Spirit, Joshua is passionate about his work with various non-profit groups, including the Boys and Girls Club, the Children’s Home of Pittsburgh & Lemieux Family Center, the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, the East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, the Emerald Youth Foundation, Girls, Inc. of TN Valley, Horizons National, Knoxville HonorAir, the Pittsburgh Police Jr. Chess Club, and the Wounded Warrior Project. In addition, he is a national spokesperson for the National Alopecia Areata Foundation and the Go Create It 21-Day Empathy Challenge. Professionally, collegiately, and personally, Joshua Dobbs embodies leadership, talent, citizenship, and stewardship, and serves as a torchbearer of these attributes for the University of Tennessee, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the NFL.
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ROBBINS FAMILY To Noah, The Children’s Home of Pittsburgh & Lemieux Family Center was his home for a period of time. We had birthday parties and holidays with Noah; and we were his family (in a way) before he met his mom and dad, Dave and Michaela Robbins. That’s why it was funny (but not surprising) to hear his response about his most favorite thing about The Children’s Home… our chocolate pudding. Noah has a very rare orthopedic condition called arthrogryposis, which impacts his joints, spine, and respiratory system. Because Noah needs a ventilator and has a gastrostomy tube (g-tube), we have spent a lot of time with him in his first five years of life training his foster families. Each time Noah transferred to a new foster home through Allegheny County Children Youth and Families, The Children’s Home would train the new foster parents in our Pediatric Specialty Hospital on how to take care of his medical needs. Noah is extraordinary in so many ways. To meet him is to know him because he has an incredible way of connecting with others. He connected with Dave and Michaela Robbins, volunteers at The Children’s Home, in a very special way. Dave and Michaela had played with Noah during their volunteer time at The Children’s Home and happened to be looking to adopt through foster care, and also through The Children’s Home. At the same time, The Children’s Home SWAN Program was working with Allegheny County Children Youth and Families to achieve permanency for Noah. Once Dave and Michaela realized Noah was looking for a permanent resource, the rest was history.
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The staff at The Children’s Home provided Dave, Michaela, and Noah with the foundation on which they built their family. They became friends, not as potential parents and a child who needed a home, but as volunteers playing with a child. As their relationship evolved and they were learning about one another, The Children’s Home provided Dave and Michaela with the education they needed to take care of Noah’s medical and emotional needs. While Noah’s personality is larger than life, his medical needs are extensive, and a lot went into training Dave and Michaela and Noah’s caregivers before them. So when Dave and Michaela embarked on the journey to foster Noah after having all of their questions answered, they knew they were signing up for a long term commitment to take care of his medical needs. Dave and Michaela committed to weeks of hands-on training at The Children’s Home while working full time in the fall of 2019, and would come from work to The Children’s Home to learn Noah’s care from his tracheostomy to his Gastrostomy Tube and feeding pump, ventilator usage, and more. They were learning on the equipment they would use in their own home, while simultaneously getting to know this vivacious five-year-old. And so the staff watched Noah, Dave, and Michaela become a family within our Pediatric Specialty Hospital on our Blue unit, and we got to watch Noah create a special bond with his new caregivers. As the staff saw that Dave and Michaela could do all of Noah’s care perfectly on their own, they knew it was time to let Noah go to his new home with his new family.
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MICHAELA It has been a little over a year since Noah’s adoption was finalized! Our son provides us with unending joy— he was worth every disappointment, delay and rejection we faced before he entered our world. It has been incredibly satisfying to see him blossom in every way throughout our journey together. As parents, we have seen Noah through ten surgeries— the majority being serious and the last one (his legs) holds enormous hope of being life changing for him. We are optimistic that it will lead to him learning to walk this summer! Being Noah’s mom is humbling in the best way. I have learned from my son that where there is a will there IS a way. He cowers to nothing and his will to thrive is second to none. You can’t help but stand taller and braver in his midst. Noah is our biggest pride and joy! I think we would explode if we loved him a shred more! We are so excited to continue expanding our family in this special way.
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DAVE Noah is magical. My wife and I are in awe of our son and tell each other every day that we can’t believe we got so lucky. We were thrown into the “deep end” of parenting a medically fragile child when Covid hit a few months after Noah was placed in our custody. We largely suspended Noah’s nursing care for an extended period of time for his safety (minimizing potential exposure). Betwixt that and numerous surgeries and hospital stays, we have become exceedingly adaptable parents and our bond as a family has been deeply forged. Prior to having a Noah in our life, we worried about how potential matches “read” on paper and what their needs were. And not to say that those aren’t important puzzle pieces that warrant thoughtful consideration, but having a child with a complex background (in every sense of the word) has made us realize how much joy, potential and love lays within each one- they just need a chance. Noah has made us better people in every sense of the word. He has made our priorities and values crystal clear. There is no mountain we would not move for him. Michaela and I are delighted to continue growing our family through foster care and sharing our joy with another child.
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Pediatric VIEW Over this past year, we have been pleased to welcome Christine Roman-Lantzy, Ph.D. and her Pediatric VIEW program to The Children’s Home. Pediatric VIEW serves patients with Cortical Visual Impairment, otherwise known as CVI. CVI is the leading cause of visual impairment that can occur at birth or be acquired later in life through trauma. Individuals with CVI often have eyes that function normally, but the message that is received in the brain from the eyes is not able to be processed in a normal way. Dr. Roman has developed a method of evaluating the impact of CVI on a patient through conducting a functional vision assessment, called the CVI Range. Upon completing the assessment, Dr. Roman will then provide a detailed report that explains the targeted interventions and accommodations needed to support use of functional vision across a child’s daily routine. These individualized reports can then be utilized by the families, educators, therapists, and others who work closely with the child, to help understand how the child sees and communicates, help improve the child’s quality of life, and expand the child’s abilities to identify the world around them.
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Temporary Emergent Medical Pediatric Program: TEMP The Children’s Home of Pittsburgh and Lemieux Family Center is excited to announce the addition of our Temporary Emergent Medical Pediatric Program, otherwise known as TEMP. This program was created to be a resource to children and families when faced with unforeseen circumstances. It is an approved inpatient stay for medically fragile children due to disruption in their normal home care routine. This disruption could be caused by a number of things, sudden illness of a caregiver, loss of utilities, loss of housing, loss of life sustaining home nursing and many more circumstances. During a child’s TEMP stay we are able to review a child’s medications, feedings, growth and development, while also reassessing their therapy or DME needs. TEMP helps patients, families, and insurance companies by reducing the amount of unnecessary ER visits and eliminating excess exposure to illnesses. We hope that TEMP can help create peace of mind for families and provide a crucial resource to help them thrive.
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1. All auction items can be viewed on our auction website https://syb22.ggo.bid 2. Each auction item will indicate when the auction for that item will begin. 3. The opening bid on each item must equal or exceed the “Minimum Bid”. 4. All silent auctions will close promptly at 9:00 p.m. Sunday March 20, 2022 (unless otherwise announced). 5. No bids will be accepted after the item auctions are closed. 6. Winning bidders will be contacted directly to notify them that they are the auction winner. 7. Auction winners will be contacted to arrange a pickup for their item. 8. Items must be paid in full.
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Bids will be disqualified if the minimum bid and/or minimum raise are not sufficient. All sales are final. No exchanges or refunds will be issued by the Auction Committee or Donor. Cash, Checks, or Credit Cards are accepted. Payment must be received at the end of the event for all items. Bidders may also pre-register their credit card at the registration table through the Express Checkout feature. Values of the auction items are the donor’s estimates and are not warranted by the Auction Committee for tax purposes or for general value. The Children’s Home of Pittsburgh & Lemieux Family Center reserves the right to withdraw from the auction any item for which the bids have not reached a satisfactory level. SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 2022
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We would like to extend a special Thank You to the following people and organizations; it is because of you and your hard work that tonight, the 20th Annual Shake Your Booties Maskerade is such a success! ■ Event Co-Chairs, Mike McCarren and Sue Byrne! Thank you for dedicating your time and efforts to making this event a success! ■ Our Shake Your Booties Event Committee, for committing so much time to ensuring the success of our event. Your dedication to helping the children and families in our program is truly appreciated! ■ Our amazing Sponsors, for standing by us during this difficult time. Your support never goes unnoticed and has a lasting impact on the families we serve. Thanks for all you do! ■ Tonight’s Emcees, Rick Sebak and Anna Singer. We are grateful for your unwavering support of the children and families of The Children’s Home. ■ Our special celebrity guest, Josh Dobbs. Thank you for serving as a role model and friend to the children in our programs. Your generous time spent volunteering and belief in our mission never goes unnoticed. ■ The Robbins Family for opening your hearts and sharing your story with all of us tonight. We have enjoyed following your journey!
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■ Anthem Video, for your creative direction and expertise that brought us a wonderful virtual program! ■ Our Presenting Sponsor, ATOM Medical, for your valued partnership and support of our programs. ■ Our Champion Sponsor, BNY Mellon, for your years of dedication to supporting the children and families we serve. ■ Our Honorary Host Committee, for your early commitment to supporting our annual gala. Your continued support means the world. ■ Our Board of Directors, for serving as advocates and champions for our programs. We truly appreciate your ongoing support. ■ The wonderful Staff at The Children’s Home, for rising to the occasion and being stars, not only in our virtual program, but each day through the work you do at The Children’s Home. We thank you for your hard work and service to those utilizing our programs. We hope you all enjoyed this program as much as we did! Thank you for your continued support and generosity! See you next year! | 45