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Cornerstone Communities of

You Are Not Alone!

Emmanuel’s Foundation

 

Cornerstone Communities are affiliates to Emmanuels Foundation is under application for 501c3 Non-Profit status by the IRS and is a registered entity in the State of Georgia.  This foundation focuses on social services and promoting social justice for vulnerable and tiny citizens. 

 

Emmanuels Foundation is dedicated to all families who have received a difficult medical diagnosis for their unborn or infant child.  Made possible by Anthony Emmanuel Arritola, a Trisomy survivor that lived 11 months to teach the medical community not by science but by miracles’.

This site is currently under development and is not in its completed state—please come back frequently to see changes that are added every two weeks. 

Emmanuel's Foundation is a resource for parents who have received a difficult diagnosis for their unborn or infant child.  Parents who have encountered similar issues offer themselves as a resource and as a friend who understand the complicated issues and emotions this difficult diagnosis brings to the family undergoing this type of stress.   

 

Emmanuel's Foundation is an intermediary agency of volunteers helping families across the United States tap into support resources in their area that meet basic emotional, spiritual and medical needs in a timely manner. 

 

Emmanuel’s Foundation also provides an online forum for family members and Newsletter for sponsors, affiliates and benefactors to aid in raising awareness. 

 

Finding out your child may have special needs or life threatening issues is  overwhelming.  Emmanuel’s Foundation finds ways to best help the family find answers to questions that are difficult to comprehend, ask, cope with or endure.

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Emmanuels Foundation offers guidance, support and friendship to families in a pregnancy or with an infant having a rare, difficult or life threatening medical diagnosis. 

Emmanuels Foundation taps into resources to meet emotional, spiritual and medical needs in a timely manner. 

Building stronger communities, striving together to support families through critical issues, companion parents in their emotional journey and encourage parents to be their child's best advocate.

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Anthony Emmanuel

11 Months Old

 

 

 

 

 

Picture taken by Ric Mershon in affiliation with NILMDTS.  Photos taken during last days of life in the PICU at CHOA Scottish Rite. 

 

Ric Mershon is a professional photographer who dedicates his time and talent to families who have a child reaching life threatening issues.  His gift to us will stay embedded in our hearts forever. 

 

There are many professional photographers in various areas that offer this service … For more information on contacting a Professional Photographer in your area, you can find Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep (NILMDTS) link on our resources page.