{"id":311585,"date":"2026-10-22T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311585\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T05:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T05:07:00","slug":"t-r-a-c-fundraiser-brings-hope-to-kids-in-foster-care-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311585\/","title":{"rendered":"T.R.A.C. Fundraiser Brings Hope to Kids in Foster Care | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday evening offered a night of hope in Millcreek as T.R.A.C. (Teen Reach Adventure Camp) hosted a special fundraising event at Real Life Assembly Church in Erie.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"trac.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1228\" height=\"538\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The event highlighted T.R.A.C.&#8217;s summer camp experiences and year-round mentoring programs for local youth in foster care.<\/p>\n<p>The evening featured music, mocktails, appetizers, dinner, auctions and, most importantly, stories from local teens who have participated in the camp.<\/p>\n<p>Teens and counselors said the program provides a life-changing, positive experience that helps at-risk youth in the community build confidence and develop meaningful connections.<\/p>\n<p>Erie News Now&#8217;s Eva Mastromatteo served as emcee for the event.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers hoped to raise enough money to send 30 teens to camp while also building partnerships with community members and organizations to support the program&#8217;s ongoing efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday evening offered a night of hope in Millcreek as T.R.A.C. (Teen Reach Adventure Camp) hosted a special&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[127494,2347,136,138,137,5924,2350,55840,97905,127492,127493,6732],"class_list":["post-311585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-at-risk-youth","tag-community-support","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-foster-care","tag-fundraiser","tag-mentoring","tag-summer-camp","tag-t-r-a-c","tag-teen-reach-adventure-camp","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311585","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=311585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}