{"id":58173,"date":"2025-11-24T01:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/58173\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T01:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:10:07","slug":"volunteers-deliver-thanksgiving-meals-to-families-with-special-needs-children-in-fort-lauderdale-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/58173\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers deliver Thanksgiving meals to families with special needs children in Fort Lauderdale &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Hundreds of families are getting a little extra help this Thanksgiving in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers with the Children\u2019s Diagnostic &amp; Treatment Center packed cars with pre-bagged thanksgiving meals, including a frozen turkey and all the fixings.<\/p>\n<p>The annual \u201cThanksgiving Basket Brigade\u201d delivers meals to families caring for children with special health needs across Broward County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cour families suffer from food insecurity. They have kids who are medically complex, and they need a little bit extra help during the holidays so this why we do it,\u201d said Ana Calderon Randazzo, Executive Director of CDTC.<\/p>\n<p>Eight-hundred meals were handed out during the annual event.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say it is a community effort aimed at making the holiday a little brighter for those who need it most.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Hundreds of families are getting a little extra help this Thanksgiving in Fort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-58173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}