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Sertoma Foundation Executive To Present Programs��

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Craig McCart, Executive Director of the Sertoma Speech & Hearing Foundation will be the program speaker at Hudson Rotary on Thursday, Feb. 2 for the club’s noon luncheon meeting, which is held at the CARES Café in the Beacon Woods Community Center (12417 Clock Tower Parkway, 34667) in Hudson.
He is also the program speaker for the Thursday, Feb. 9 meeting of the Community Service Council at the Spartan Manor for the luncheon at 11:30 a.m. The meeting will be held at the Spartan Manor (6121 Massachusetts Avenue, 34653) in New Port Richey.
Mr. McCart’s program will provide updates about what the the Foundation does for families in the community and throughout the state of Florida to assist hard of hearing babies, children and adults to hear the world around them in order to avoid a life of isolation so they can succeed personally, academically, and socially.
Mr. McCart has been a member of the West Pasco Sertoma Club and a life member of Sertoma International since 1974. He was the chairman for the West Pasco Sertoma Speech & Hearing Foundation when it was chartered in 1982. It was during that time he oversaw the moving and construction of the former Swartsel Family Homestead into the first Sertoma Speech & Hearing Center on the Mittye P. Locke Elementary Campus on Trouble Creek Road. It became a department of and was operated by All Children’s Hospital as their first outreach facility.
The Sertoma Speech & Hearing Center is currently located in the All Children’s Specialty Care of Pasco at 4443 Rowan Road in New Port Richey. In 1997 Mr. McCart was hired by the Board of Directors of the Sertoma Speech & Hearing Foundation of Florida, Inc. as the executive director.
Hearing Loss is the most common birth defect nationally. Early detection and intervention is vital for an infant to have the opportunity to access speech and other sounds for learning and brain development. Sertoma Speech and Hearing Foundation assists hard of hearing babies, children, and adults to avoid a life of isolation and hear the world around them so they can succeed personally, academically, and socially.
The mission of the Sertoma Speech & Hearing Foundation of Florida is to provide quality developmental and rehabilitative services, products and education--primarily to children--throughout Florida, in a caring and compassionate environment, never limited by the ability to pay.