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People On The Move - Terry and Faye Zealand
10/31/2010 - By Teja Anderson
CHANGING THE LIVES OF CHILDREN WITH AIDS
Terry and Faye Zealand met at church when she was running a summer youth program and he was studying to be a priest. “Terry came up to my church on an assignment to help out with the boy’s basketball team. The children started calling us “Mommy and Daddy” and the rest was history!” Faye remembers laughing. After they were married, Terry then went to work for the NJ Department of Education and later served as Director of the Collier School. He received his doctorate in education in 1982 from Rutgers University. Faye served as Director of Head Start in Scranton, P.A. and then worked as a teacher for the Salvation Army in Jersey City. She has also served on the board of directors for Catholic Charities for the Trenton Diocese. She received her New Jersey CSW in 1996.
But together, Terry and Faye Zealand dreamed of an organization that would provide services for children with AIDS. It was during a tour of Children’s Hospital AIDS Programs (CHAPS), that they met a two-year old girl with HIV infection who had just been orphaned. The child was forced to remain in the hospital setting since there was no one yet identified and qualified to act as a foster parent. It was this experience that focused the Zealand’s mission: provide resources to help homeless children with AIDS. This was the birth of the AIDS Resource Foundation for Children.
After consultation with various professionals in the field of pediatric AIDS, it was determined that there was a need for a transitional foster care facility near the Newark hospital. With a little help, Terry and Faye were able to secure a one-family brick home in Elizabeth - the first St. Clare’s Home for Children. St. Clare’s opened its doors in May, 1987 to its first child, a two month-old girl with HIV, followed by four other children under the age of six. This home has been identified as the first transitional care facility in the nation for children with HIV/AIDS. In its first two years of operation, St. Clare’s provided a loving caring home to twenty-nine children. Soon after opening the St. Clare’s Home in Elizabeth the Foundation opened Haller House in Newark after the staff identified a need to provide supportive services for families once a child left the homes. Due to the growing needs of children and their families living with HIV/AIDS, the Foundation acquired a third house.
Over these past 25 years, the St. Clare's Homes have been able to provide loving care to almost 2,000 babies. “We have saved the New Jersey Health Care system millions of dollars. Children left in hospitals beyond medical necessity not only cost the uncompensated care fund millions of dollars but more tragically suffer developmental delays,” Terry states emphatically. In addition, the St. Clare Homes offer a home-like setting and a platform for permanent placement in the community. “The best place for a child is with loving parents and this should be the goal of placing a child. Many times finding suitable housing and support allows a mother to care for her child,” Faye says.
To date the ARFC has renovated 40 scattered site housing units in Newark, Irvington and East Orange to house families with AIDS. The foundation also provides subsidies to another 75 families. Most recently Terry and Faye renovated a 90-year old firehouse in downtown Newark to serve as a youth center for children orphaned and affected by AIDS. “After a mother dies from AIDS her children tend to drop out of school, become pregnant, turn to drugs, are subject to gang violence, sexual exploitation, homelessness, substance abuse and are at risk for contracting or spreading AIDS,” Terry says sadly.
Now, thanks to Terry and Faye there is a brighter future for many of these children.
To learn more about the AIDS Resource Foundation for Children go to www.aidsresource.org.
STATS
FAVORITE RESTAURANTS(T) McLoone’s Supper Club, Asbury Park
(F) McLoone’s Rum Runner, Sea Bright
FAVORITE MUSICAL GROUP(T) Listening to what people can do with a guitar
(F) Jazz
FAVORITE MOVIE(T) I don’t watch movies
(F) “Dances With Wolves”
PET PEEVE(T+F) Seeing historical buildings deteriorate
THREE PEOPLE YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE DINNER WITH(T) Willie Nelson, Obama, and my lovely wife Faye
(F) Robin Williams, Obama, and my husband Terry
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