News & Press Releases

Donors Invited to View the New Campus for a Special Recognition Event.

January 15, 2019

All Star Children’s Foundation gave donors a special look at the new campus and the opportunity to write messages of love to be “embedded in the fabric of our building,” founder Graci McGillicuddy told guests.

All Star Pilots the First Foster Parent Class with Trauma-Focused Parenting!

October 15, 2018

The decision and process to become a foster parent is not an easy one and once a child is placed

All Star Staff Head to San Francisco for ACES Conference!

October 15, 2018

Founders, Dennis and Graci McGillicuddy and the ASCF staff , which include, Lucia Branton-Executive Director and Lindsey May- Director of

The Interior Design Society, Sarasota, Partners with All Star Children’s Foundation

The Interior Design Society, Sarasota, Partners with All Star Children’s Foundation

October 15, 2018

The Interior Design Society has chosen All Star Children’s Foundation as their main charity to support this year.  Julie Szymczak,

The All Star Campus is Underway!

The All Star Campus is Underway!

October 15, 2018

Each week we get more and more excited as we see concrete poured, bricks laid and pillars standing because, for

Seidman: Trauma recovery a community responsibility

September 6, 2018

In the spring of 2010, Robin Saenger, then vice-mayor of Tarpon Springs, discovered the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) test, a simple 10-question survey developed through Centers for Disease Control research that calculates the degree of abuse, neglect and family dysfunction an individual has experienced in childhood.

Building a Bright Future in Foster Care

May 7, 2018

All Star Children’s Foundation is “Building A Brighter Future in Foster Care.” Read more in the May edition of SCENE, The Education Issue.

February 11, 2018

Manatee and Sarasota counties are the top counties in the state for the rate at which children are removed from their homes, largely due to the rise of opioid addiction

All Star Children’s Foundation

January 11, 2018

For over 30 years, Graci McGillicuddy has dreamed of building a brighter future in foster care. Now, with the support of her husband Dennis, and in collaboration with Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, her dream is coming true.

Nutter Construction Selected to Build Foster Homes

December 22, 2017

SARASOTA, Fla.– Nutter Custom Construction, a Sarasota-based residential custom-building company, has been selected to build the foster homes for All Star Children’s Foundation, an organization with the goal of providing state-of-the-art treatment for childhood trauma on its Campus of Caring…

A new future for foster children

December 17, 2017

When Dennis McGillicuddy asked his wife, Graci, what she wanted for her birthday, she didn’t have to think long. It’s what she has wanted and worked toward for more than 30 years, to bring an end to child abuse and care for abused, neglected and abandoned children…

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