Schreiber Stories
If you’ve ever been to Schreiber, you know the place is full of amazing stories. The dedicated staff that works with the kids every day. An amazing team of volunteers, from the folks who help with office tasks to board members and committee members. And the families.
Especially the families.
The moms and dads who deal with some of the toughest situations a parent can face. And the kids. The kids who come in here and put in so much work to make their lives better, more independent. And they do it with smiles.
There are lots of stories that we know you – in Lancaster County and beyond – would be interested in and connect with. And we want to tell them.
That’s the purpose of this blog.
And we want to hear from you – parents of Schreiber kiddos, Schreiber alumni, volunteers – so that we hear about the stories we might not know about. Leave a comment here, contact us on Facebook, or shoot me an email.
Thanks to two longtime Schreiber volunteers
April 8, 2019Around Schreiber, we have a shorthand for talking about Tina Edgell and Patty Watson. Tina and Patty. Or sometimes Patty and Tina. It may as well be PattyTina. For most of the past 20 years, Tina and Patty have been reliable Schreiber volunteers. It’s not a stretch to say they are among the most dedicated…
Schreiber’s reach stretches around the world
April 3, 2019When Denisha Kline had the chance to work with kids at orphanages in Vietnam, it didn’t take her long to say yes. Denisha is a physical therapist at Schreiber and a board member at Brittany’s Hope, a nonprofit based in Elizabethtown that provides support for children in orphanages in Vietnam and Africa. Brittany’s Hope is…
Penn State students build a better bike for Schreiber
February 26, 2019We have a lot of therapy bikes at Schreiber. But there was a certain kind of bike we were missing: a hand bike, no pedaling, for school-age kids. Enter a group of senior mechanical engineering students from Penn State Harrisburg. Bernie Hershey, a Schreiber occupational therapist, was the one who suggested the project to the…
Changes bring start of new era
October 25, 2018Some of you probably already know that what we call Schreiber today has been around since 1936. In those 82 years, we have gone by several different names: The Society for Crippled Children and Adults, the National Easter Seals Society and, starting in 1994, Schreiber Pediatric Rehab Center of Lancaster County. Now, we are excited…
Collaboration is central to Schreiber’s mission
September 25, 2018At Schreiber, we love to partner with other community organizations where missions overlap. We have exciting news about two new collaborations to talk about. The first is about art. Lancaster Artwalk presents its next Artwalk Weekend Oct. 5-7, and there are at least 36 different locations participating. The vast majority are in downtown Lancaster’s many…
A grateful Schreiber says thank you to the community
September 21, 2018In July, when we kicked off another season of selling tickets for this year’s 30th Annual Rubber Duckie Race & Festival, we did so with some anxiety. The event, our largest community fundraiser, had suffered a significant blow as the result of the loss of one of the key supporters of the race over the…
A Schreiber kiddo grows into a young artist
September 14, 2018Maria Corley recognized pretty early on that her son Malcolm was different. His paternal grandmother was a child psychologist, so she had experience with what typical childhood development looked like, Maria said. “She noticed that he lined things up for me,” Maria said. “She saw the speech delays. The eye contact thing.” An evaluation led…
Schreiber campers ease into the end of summer
August 8, 2018The teens from the Club 625 Camp gathered this week for one of their last outings of the summer, a visit to Sky Zone. Before they did that, they had an important job to take care of. Every year, the campers do some kind of community service project. This year, as in the past few…
Meet the Grassos, a second generation Schreiber family
July 11, 2018Starting services at Schreiber for two of her children did not create anxiety for Andrea Grasso. She had seen what Schreiber did for two of her sisters. Andrea’s sister Ashley was born with Prader-Willi Syndrome, a rare genetic condition that creates a host of physical and developmental challenges. “We came to Schreiber almost every day…
One woman’s personal connection to Edna Schreiber
May 31, 2018Barbara Willders Tomlinson heard recently there was a photo of her as a girl on the wall at Schreiber, and she stopped by the center recently to see it. “There I am,” she said, pointing up at a photos that’s part of the large Edna Schreiber piece that hangs in our main waiting area. Barbara…