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The 2022 Run for Woods: A Rainy Run to Remember


Consider 2022 a banner year for our annual Run for Woods 5K and 1-Mile Fun Run presented by Faulkner-Ciocca Dealerships, which took place on May 7!

 

More than $257,000 was raised, which is the largest amount of funds Woods has ever raised for this event – thanks to our generous families and Langhorne community. We are also grateful for this year’s record number of more than 50 sponsors. This includes our presenting sponsor Faulkner-Ciocca Dealerships.

 

We also had several Gold Sponsors, specifically Ally Financial, Ethos Group, Inc., Homestead Smart Health Plans, Johnson, Kendall & Johnson, Inc., Parx Casino, and TD Bank. Our Silver sponsors were Audi of America, Conner Strong & Buckelew, Experian, Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller, Razor Technology, Barry & Michelle Sharer, Synergy Pharmacy Services, and Volkswagen of America. A&K Industrial, Allies, Angelo’s Carpet One, Ardex Labs, CARFAX, Alice DeVoe and John Szabo, Future Scripts, Hyundai, Legacy Treatment Services, M&T Bank, PFMAM, Sailaja & Shankar Musunuri, Ricciardi Brothers/Benjamin Moore, Subaru of America, Top to Bottom Home Improvements LLC, Wawa Foundation, and Zimmerman Auto Body Supply were our Bronze sponsors.

 

The group ends with our Friendship sponsors Beth and Roger Angrick, Archway Programs, Bayada Home Health Care, Bob’s Discount Furniture, Boyle Construction, Woods Community at Brian’s House, Cars.com, Chubb, Cox Automotive, Crown Holdings, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Fenningham Demptster & Coval LLP, FRS Advisors, GM Financial, Harvest Moon, La La Lobster, Margolis Edelstein, Ridge Policy Group, Rob’s Automotive & Collision Center, Roscommon International, PRN Consultants, Scoles Systems, Tabor Children’s Services, Volkswagen Credit, and Weber Gallagher.

 

And while the weather was determined to rain on Woods’ parade during the event, our clients, staff and greater Langhorne community kept marching, walking, wheeling and running along. A beautiful ceremony kicked off the race, which saw Pa. State Sen. Tommy Tomlinson earn the Woods Services Humanitarian Award. Attendees also witnessed our resident Whit Park receive an award for being the highest individual fundraiser, a tribute to his mother who recently passed.

 

We are fortunate to be able to use the funds raised to further our mission in providing innovative, comprehensive, and integrated health, education, housing, workforce, behavioral health, and case management services. These services support our clients who have intellectual, developmental, and medical disabilities and acquired brain injury. We couldn’t do it without the help of the community around us, and for that, we say – THANK YOU!

 

To relive the May 7 event, enjoy this fantastic photo story from our friend Nancy Rokos at the Bucks County Courier Times. We’ve also included some photos below for your pleasure.

 

Until next year!

 

Run for Woods 5k And 1-Mile Fun Run in Langhorne Returns on May 7 to Raise $200,000 for Individuals with Disabilities

Sponsors Help Woods Services Near Fundraising Goal Finish Line

LANGHORNE, Pa. (March 17, 2022) – Woods Services in Langhorne, Pa., invites runners, walkers, and rollers of all abilities to participate in the 2022 Run for Woods 5K and 1-Mile Fun Run presented by Faulkner-Ciocca Dealerships on Saturday, May 7, 2022. The festivities kick off with an opening ceremony at 8:45 a.m., followed by the 5K at 9:00 a.m., and the 1-Mile Fun Run at 9:10 a.m. The run/walk course winds through the campus of Woods Services, a nonprofit organization that serves individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and acquired brain injury, and through the Langhorne community. The registration fee is $45, and participants can register at RunForWoods.org.

 

Woods Services has already raised $140,000 of the $200,000 goal from sponsors and race fundraising teams. Funds will support Woods Services in its mission to provide innovative, comprehensive, and integrated health, education, housing, workforce, behavioral health, and case management services. These services support children and adults in the intellectual and developmental disability, behavioral, child welfare, and brain trauma public health sectors who have complex and intensive medical and behavioral healthcare needs.

 

This is the 8th annual Run for Woods. Events in 2020 and 2021 were held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Again this year, a virtual option is available for $25 and includes a mailed shirt. For those participating in person, either as racers or spectators, masks will be required before and after the race. Masks will not be mandatory for racers while on the run, walk, and roll courses.

 

“We are immensely grateful to the running community, our sponsors and Bucks County neighbors, and our Woods families and friends for their ongoing support of the Woods Services Run for Woods,” said Tine Hansen-Turton, president and CEO of Woods Services. “Their participation helps Woods Services –a nonprofit, life cycle care management and advocacy organization –provide exceptional educational, vocational and recreational opportunities that enrich lives and increase independence. The event also builds awareness of Woods’ care approach, which addresses the whole person and their changing physical and behavioral health needs throughout their lifetimes.”

 

We will award monetary prizes to the first, second, and third place male and female finishers by age group. With the $45 registration fee, all participants will receive an official race t-shirt, race medal, and post-race snack bag. Participants, community members, and businesses are also invited to sponsor a Woods resident and their support staff member with a donation of $90. They are encouraged to share photos and videos with the Woods community and family and friends using #RunForWoods on social media. For more information, visit RunForWoods.org, where you can also view a Run for Woods video.

 

Woods Services thanks presenting sponsor Faulkner-Ciocca Dealerships, and a long list of 2022 Woods Services Run for Woods sponsors, including:

  • Gold Sponsors: Ally; Ethos Group; Homestead Smart Health Plans; Johnson, Kendall & Johnson; Parx Casino; TD Bank
  • Silver Sponsors: Audi of America, Conner Strong & Buckelew; Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller; Razor Technology
  • Bronze Sponsors: A&K Industrial Corp.; Allies, Inc.; Angelo’s Carpet One Floor & Home; CARFAX; M&T Bank; Subaru; Top to Bottom Home Improvements; Zimmerman Auto Body Supplies Inc.
  • Friendship Sponsors: ARDEX; Bayada Senior Living Solutions; Bob’s Discount Furniture; Boyle Construction; Chubb; Cox Automotive; Crown Brand-Building Packaging; Enterprise Rent-a-Car; FRS Advisors; La La Lobster; Margolis Edelstein; Ridge Policy Group; Roscommon International; Tabor, A Family of Services; Weber Gallagher

 

About Woods Services

Woods Services is a nonprofit, life cycle care management and advocacy organization that, along with five affiliate organizations located in Pennsylvania and New Jersey – Allies, Inc., Archway Programs, Legacy Treatment Services, Tabor Services, and Woods Community at Brian’s House – provides innovative, comprehensive, and integrated health, education, housing, workforce, behavioral health, and case management services to more than 20,000 children and adults in the intellectual and developmental disability, behavioral, child welfare, and brain trauma public health sectors who have complex and intensive medical and behavioral healthcare needs. Founded in 1913 by Philadelphia schoolteacher Mollie Woods with two simple goals – to advance quality of life and standard of care for individuals with disabilities – Woods Services continues its mission today by helping children and adults with disabilities or challenges to achieve their highest potential. Among the ways Woods does this is through its population health management strategy, which includes the integration of primary and specialty medical care with behavioral health in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.  For more information, visit woods.org.

Woods Services in Bucks County Invites You to Join the 2021 Virtual Run for Woods

Woods Services in Langhorne, Pa., invites runners, walkers and rollers of all abilities to participate in the 2021 Virtual Run for Woods 5K and 1-Mile Fun Run presented by Faulkner-Ciocca Dealerships. A live broadcast stream at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 1 will kick off the festivities and can be viewed at www.runforwoods.org. The event supports Woods Services programs that benefit individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and acquired brain injury.

 

This is the second year the annual Run for Woods will be held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year’s event raised more than $147,000 from participants and sponsors and helped fund technology to assist virtual learning and therapeutics, as well as additions to the Woods campus to enhance recreational activities that provided fresh air and exercise while observing pandemic safety protocols. This year Woods Services aims to raise $200,000, and with the generous support from sponsors and race fundraising teams, is over halfway to its goal.

 

“We are grateful to the running community, our sponsors and Bucks County neighbors, and our Woods families and friends for their support of our 7th annual Run for Woods,” said Tine Hansen-Turton, president and CEO of Woods Services. “Their participation assists us in providing exceptional educational, vocational, and recreational opportunities that enrich lives and increase independence, as well as raise awareness for Woods Services’ continuum of care, which focuses on integrated healthcare, prevention, wellness, education, behavioral health, social services, and housing.”

 

Interested Run for Woods participants can register at www.runforwoods.org. A $25 fee includes an official race t-shirt, which will be mailed in advance of the event for those who sign up by March 31. Participants, community members, and businesses are also invited to underwrite participation for a Woods resident and his/her support staff member with a donation of $90. They are encouraged to share photos and videos with the Woods community and family and friends using #R4W on social media.

 

Along with presenting sponsor Faulkner-Ciocca Dealerships, the 2021 virtual Run for Woods is sponsored by Homestead Smart Health Plans, Johnson Kendall Johnson, Parx Casino, Conner Strong & Buckelew, Ethos Group, Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller, Barry & Michelle Sharer, Allies, Colours Inc., The First National Bank and Trust Company of Newtown, The Kimmelman Family, Synergy Pharmacy Services, Bayada Home Health care, Boyle Construction, cars.com, Crown Holdings, Epstein Becker & Green, Fenningham Dempster & Coval LLP, GM Financial, Ridge Policy Group, Rob’s Automotive & Collision Center, Roscommon International, Tabor Children’s Services, and Top to Bottom Home Improvements LLC.

 

About Woods Services

Woods Services is a nonprofit, multi-service population health management and advocacy organization that, along with five affiliate organizations in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, provides innovative, comprehensive, and integrated health, education, housing, workforce, behavioral health, and case management services to more than 22,000 children and adults in the intellectual and developmental disability, behavioral, child welfare, and brain trauma public health sectors who have complex and intensive medical and behavioral healthcare needs. Founded in 1913 by Philadelphia schoolteacher Mollie Woods with two simple goals – to advance quality of life and standard of care for individuals with disabilities – Woods Services continues its mission today by helping children and adults with disabilities or challenges to achieve their highest potential.  Among the ways Woods does this is through its population health management strategy, which includes the integration of primary and specialty medical care with behavioral health in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.  For more information, visit woods.org.

1,000 Cross the Finish Line at 4th Annual Run for Woods

A beautiful spring day set the scene as 1,000 runners, walkers, and rollers participated in the 4th annual Run for Woods on Saturday, May 5th. Eighty volunteers served as course marshals, assisted with registration, staffed the lunch lines and presented well deserved medals to all who crossed the finish line. Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick received Woods’ Humanitarian Award at the Opening Ceremony and State Representative Frank Farry served as the official starter.

 

The event attracted 77 teams, including a large team from Johnson, Kendall & Johnson. Twenty JKJ employees raised $11,000 for Woods in addition to the $10,000 Gold Sponsorship provided by the insurance and risk management company.

 

“My favorite part of the Run experience was feeling and seeing the exuberance and energy of all of the participants and the staff, as well as knowing that my participation in the race was helping to make a difference in lives of many people who truly need our help,” said Kathy Glenn, Administrative Assistant for JKJ.

 

Woodlands resident Patrick Scotto, 21, welcomed the enthusiastic crowd prior to the start of the Run and shared his story. Patrick has worked for the last year in Woods’ Café, “Common Grounds” where he takes orders, prepares food, stocks shelves and works the cash register. Patrick expressed his appreciation for the Woods staff who, “have helped me recognize right from wrong and treated me with respect. It is because of my staff that I am able to treat others the way they want to be treated.”

 

Awards were presented to the Top Individual Fundraiser: Whit Park, a Woods resident who raised $5690, the Top Fundraising Team, Ciocca Subaru, which raised $13,685, and the Largest Team, the Woodlands Warriors, with 68 participants including residents and staff.

 

Following the run/walk, Outback Steakhouse and Carrabba’s Italian Grill prepared and donated a lunch of ribs, steak, pasta and chicken for a hungry crowd of 800. Drinks were donated by Pepsi and Wawa and participants dined outside together under a huge white tent.

 

Thanks to the generosity of 10 Faulkner Ciocca Dealerships that raised a whopping $73,000 for Woods this year, and had a record-breaking turnout, more than $194,000 was raised at the Run. Funds raised at the run/walk support Woods’ Greatest Need, which this year includes the expansion of the Davenport Medical Center at Woods, which provides care for both residents and staff.

 

The newest dealership to participate was Ciocca Chevrolet of Princeton, which recruited nearly 30 team members for its Princeton Princes and Princesses team – all sporting tiaras!  Michael Minetti, Parts and Service Director for Ciocca, stated “We are blessed with employees who believe that we are a family and understood the importance of the Run. Our employees were excited to be a part of something that benefited people in need.”

 

Three Woods residents were named “Ambassadors of the Run” this year: Jason Speer, Whit Park and Adam Greene, helping to get the word out about the event.  Adam, a Beechwood NeuroRehab resident, visited Ciocca Chevrolet of Princeton and shared the story of his acquired brain injury and the improved quality of life that he enjoys now as a result of the services he receives at Beechwood NeuroRehab, a program of Woods.

 

Adam was so inspiring that the dealership registered one dozen participants and raised $500 in just one hour! He was rewarded with a spin in a brand new convertible Corvette. Additional fun elements that were significant at the award-winning Run for Woods this year included character visits with super heroes and princesses, complimentary fruit smoothies to quench your thirst, game tables and prizes from Dave & Busters, and singing and dance performances that were enjoyed by all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carrabba’s and Outback to Partner with Woods Services for Second Straight Year

Woods Services will hold its award-winning Run for Woods 5K and 1 Mile Fun Walk on Saturday, May 5, 2018. This is the fourth year that the event will be presented by Faulkner-Ciocca Dealerships. Participants will enjoy a post-event steak, chicken and pasta lunch donated by Carrabba’s Italian Grill and Outback Steakhouse. More than 1,100 individuals are expected to participate and raise $200,000 for the 675 children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities served by Woods. These children and adults have complex medical, behavioral and emotional challenges that prevent them from living successfully at home and in the community. Woods relies on funds raised at the Run to help provide the appropriate level of support they need to live a fulfilling life.

 

“We are so excited that our friends at Carrabba’s and Outback Steakhouse in Bensalem will be coming back this year. Their food was amazing last year and we received so many wonderful compliments after the 5K including one runner who wrote, ‘best food ever at a 5K!’” said Hilary Stephens, Vice President of Development for Woods. “Carrabba’s and Outback join the nine Faulkner-Ciocca dealerships making a real difference at Woods. They are corporate leaders from our community who want to learn firsthand about the inspiring lives of the people we serve.”

 

Last week, the Run for Woods received two special awards from the Bucks Happening List Contest: “Best Outdoor Event” and “Best Fundraiser” in Bucks County. As an organization, Woods was named a finalist in the Best Charity category as well. Members of the community are encouraged to join Woods residents and their families by running, walking, or rolling in the 5K or 1 Mile Fun Walk.

 

The 5K is a flat and fast route that starts on the Woods campus and takes runners, walkers, and rollers through Langhorne Manor Borough and the Borough of Langhorne, both historic districts listed on the National Register. Participants will enjoy the beautiful tree-lined shaded streets of the Boroughs before returning to Woods for the final mile of the Run. Roads will be secured to ensure the safety of all 5K participants and those participating in the 1 Mile Fun Walk will remain on the Woods campus. An awards ceremony, BBQ lunch, entertainment, and Fitness Fair will follow the 5K/1 Mile Fun Walk.

 

Online registration is open at www.runforwoods.org until May 2. The cost is $45 per person and discount registration options are available for children 12 and under. If space allows, registrations will also be accepted the morning of the event for $50/person. This is a family-friendly event and all participants ages 7 and up will receive a t-shirt, medal, and an individual online fundraising page with the option to create a fundraising team.