annual dinner
Abuse-NJ sets
annual dinner
Prevent Child Abuse-New Jersey (PCA-NJ) will hold its eighth annual dinner at 6 p.m. on Nov. 7 at the Marriott Conference Hotel at Lafayette Yard, Trenton.
The organization’s largest yearly fund-raising event will honor Turner Construction Co., Somerset section of Franklin, with the Blue Ribbon Corporation Award; The Hon. Gwendolyn L. Harris, commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Human Services, with the Gov. Thomas H. Kean Award for Public Service; and Aavo Reinfeldt, senior vice president of business banking at PNC Bank, East Brunswick, with the Donna J. Stone Award.
Co-chairpersons for the event are Toby Shylit Mack of Branches Social and Corporate Catering, Long Branch, and John Sakson, Esq., of Stark and Stark, Lawrenceville section of Lawrence.
The evening will include dinner, entertainment and the awards presentation. An auction of celebrity memorabilia, trips, theater packages and other high-end items also will take place. A journal will be produced to commemorate the evening. Event proceeds will support PCA-NJ’s programs.
Tickets cost $200 per person, with corporate sponsorship packages, including tables of 10, offered at $10,000, $7,500, $5,000 and $3,500. Advertising opportunities in the journal also are available.
Prevent Child Abuse-New Jersey, the New Jersey affiliate of Prevent Child Abuse America, leads statewide efforts to eliminate child abuse in all its forms. By establishing local partnerships, PCA-NJ delivers parenting and community programs, proven effective in vigorous research, in more than 130 locations across the state. The organization informs and empowers professional social workers and paraprofessional family workers, providing continuation education courses and serving as lead trainer for the state initiative Healthy Families and bringing the Parents as Teachers program to Abbott preschools throughout the state.
PCA-NJ is an outspoken defender of and advocate for children, working with government, public and private institutions and the citizens of New Jersey to generate the will and the resources necessary to protect the state’s children.
For more information and to reserve, call (732) 246-8060.

