January 22, 2009
Local Businessman Supports Crittenton Agency
Above: Crittenton Services's Wellspring Weirton Site Director Carol Amendola and Weirton businessman J.J. Bernabei, who recently made a donation to support Crittenton Services. Bernabei is the owner of Tri-State Pharmacy, Tri-State Medical and the Follasbee Pharmacy.
Local business owner and community leader J.J. Bernabei presented a donation recently to Crittenton Services, which operates a variety of client-based programs in the Ohio Valley, including Wellspring Family Services, a behavioral health center serving Brooke and Hancock counties and located in downtown Weirton. Bernabei is the owner of the Tri-State Medical Group, which includes the Tri-State Pharmacy in Weirton Medical Center, the Follansbee Pharmacy and Tri-State Medical in Weirton, which provides home respiratory and other medical equipment.
“I am pleased to support this unique local nonprofit organization,” Bernabei said. “Crittenton and Wellspring provide vital community services that help children and families in need achieve self-sufficiency. This is a way I can help local people to help other local people become independent, productive members of the community.”
A Weirton resident and graduate of Weir High and West Virginia University, Bernabei has long been invested in the upper Ohio Valley. He purchased the Follansbee Pharmacy in 1996 and has since opened the Tri-State Pharmacy and Tri-State Medical, a supply company, both in Weirton. “We are in the business of wellness and healing,” he said. “So it only makes sense that we give back to the community through a local organization dedicated to promoting wellness.
Crittenton Services, Inc. is a local nonprofit service operating behavioral health, maternity and childcare services to families in West Virginia and the tri-state area. Wellspring Family Services, a division of Crittenton, specializes in outpatient counseling for families,
including home-based services. Wellspring offers these services in 11 counties in West Virginia,
including service to Brooke and Hancock counties through its downtown Weirton office.
The Crittenton Residential Program is the only gender-specific residential program in the state dedicated to young women aged 12-18 who are parenting or have other extraordinary life challenges. Crittenton also offers an intensive educational and outpatient treatment program for adolescent females who are not in residence. Crittenton’s Cradles to Crayons childcare centers are the area’s only COA-accredited daycare facilities.
For information about supporting Crittenton Services and Wellspring Family Services, call the Office of Marketing Communications and Development at (304) 242-7060 ext. 133.
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(304) 242-7060, ext. 133