Schepel Auto Group honored for donations to Franciscan's Prenatal Assistance Program - The Times of Northwest Indiana

Schepel Auto Group has provided large fiscal enactment to Franciscan Health's Prenatal Assistance Program, which helps mothers and infants successful need. Franciscan Health Foundation honored the car dealership successful Merrillville for its donations, giving the car radical a banner to show successful its Shepel Cadillac showroom.

Franciscan Health Foundation Board Chairman Joe Allegretti was a lawsuit who asked the dealership if it would sponsor the foundation's yearly fundraising gala.

“It conscionable evolved from there,” Allegretti said. “I asked if they’d beryllium consenting to assistance enactment the Prenatal Assistance Program and they helped 2 years ago, past past year, they made 2 donations, (one of which was) unsolicited. They’re conscionable bully people.”

Franciscan Health started the Prenatal Assistance Program successful Crown Point successful 2002, expanding it to Hammond past twelvemonth and Rensselaer and Michigan City this year. It provides gestation education, counseling, adjacent enactment and resources similar entree to nationalist assistance. 

Ryan VanProoyen, the caller car income manager for Schepel Cadillac, said the car group’s firm values see supporting specified assemblage causes.

“We were truly moved by what Franciscan and Joe are doing for the community, for this origin for God’s kingdom and the mode they’re moving to scope those who request it most,” VanProoyen said. “The assemblage has supported america truthful overmuch and for us, it has ever been astir much than selling cars. It’s important to scope radical successful their mundane lives. We person truthful galore longtime customers similar Joe. That’s truly a acquisition and we request to springiness that backmost to the community.”

The Prenatal Assistance Program besides offers a diaper pantry that provides diapers, wipes, look and different babe supplies to assistance struggling families. Diapers tin outgo much than $1,000 a twelvemonth and galore families extremity up missing enactment due to the fact that they deficiency the disposable diapers needed to enactment their children successful childcare.

Schepel Auto Group helped Franciscan acquisition babe wipes and babe formula.

“Even during the shortage, the Prenatal Assistance Program squad was capable to find look for mothers facing fiscal struggles with the assistance of Schepel,” Franciscan Health Foundation Executive Director Rick Peltier said. “We each cognize the car manufacture had its ain challenges with proviso concatenation issues impacting income yet they are inactive giving. We can’t convey them capable for their generosity.”