VI. Giving Back: 9/11 Community Service Project

Supporting the Boys

Each year the team at Advocate Networks affirms its Guiding Principles – and commemorates 9/11 – by becoming involved in an activity that benefits our friends, neighbors, and community. As part of our 2008 commitment, we helped renovate a Wood Shop at the Mountain Top Boy's Home (MTBH) in Calhoun, Georgia.

The MTBH is foster home for young men aged 11 to 17.  Its goal is provide the discipline, support, and education they need to become productive members of society.

The Advocate team washed, painted, and stained the facility's Wood Shop building and helped with repairs to its electrical, safety, and roof systems. With this essential maintenance out of the way, the MTBH staff can now work with the Wood Workers Guild to begin training new residents like Fred and Dalton, who Advocate Networks co-president Scott Fogle met while on-site at the MTBH.

"Both boys are 16," he says. "Dalton has been in numerous foster homes, but he is excited to be at MTBH because he sees it as a place where he can stay and grow. Fred recently finished a jail term for theft and has no family to care for him. He was born in jail to a cocaine-addicted mother."

For boys like Dalton and Fred, the MTBH offers a refuge—and a place where they can begin again. The Advocate team expects to work on additional projects at MTBH over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.