{"id":11830,"date":"2025-10-22T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/11830\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:50:08","slug":"safe-space-renovations-underway-for-pcflv-facility-to-enhance-support-services-and-activities-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/11830\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Safe space&#8217;: Renovations underway for PCFLV facility to enhance support services and activities | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. &#8211; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcflv.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pediatric Cancer Foundation of The Lehigh Valley<\/a>, otherwise known as PCFLV, is breaking ground on a new program and event space at its office in South Whitehall Township.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very excited to finally be at a stage where we can start this project,&#8221; said Michelle Zenie Rounds, Executive Director of the PCFLV, and a cancer mom.<\/p>\n<p>From live sporting events to scholarships, PCFLV offers more than 25 different programs for children with cancer and their families.<\/p>\n<p>The new in-house space will be used to host some of their more personal programming.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it provides sort of a comfortable safe space, especially for programs like support groups and art and music therapy for kiddos,&#8221; said Rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Work will take around three and a half to four months to complete.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This project is going to involve some extensive renovations inside the building as well as an expansion on the outside,&#8221; says Ron Jerdon, President of Jerdon Construction.<\/p>\n<p>While the project means a lot to PCFLV, it also holds weight for the people putting it together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I lost my mother to cancer, my father-in-law to cancer, and my first employee I lost him to cancer as well,&#8221; said Jerdon.<\/p>\n<p>The building upgrade will better serve the children and families of PCFLV For many years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. &#8211; The Pediatric Cancer Foundation of The Lehigh Valley, otherwise known as PCFLV, is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,9328,9331,9337,9325,9326,9334,157,9335,9336,9333,9329,28,9330,874,9327,9332,664],"class_list":["post-11830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-cancer","tag-executive-director","tag-father-in-law","tag-home-improvement","tag-interior-design","tag-jerdon-construction","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-michelle-zenie-rounds","tag-music-therapy","tag-pcflv-facility","tag-pediatric-cancer-foundation-of-the-lehigh-valley","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pentagon-renovation-program","tag-president","tag-renovation","tag-ron-jerdon","tag-south-whitehall-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}