The Basic Physical Therapy Procedure students at Northeast Community College collected shoes and money this spring for the Shoes4Kids foundation. The future Physical Therapy Assistant class of 2016 raised 69 pairs of shoes and $10.00 to donate to Shoes4Kids which was founded by Brad Thuringer and the Physical Therapy Program at Lake Area Tech in Watertown, South Dakota. During the American Physical Therapy Association Annual Conference, the shoes will be going to the community of Alexandria, VA to provide new athletic shoes to underserved children and their entire family. Andrea Suhr, PTA Program Instructor at Northeast will personally deliver the shoes to Mr. Thuringer. Suhr said, “I am so proud of Northeast and our students on this campus. Thank you so much for your generosity to help my students be successful in their service learning project!”

If you would like to donate additional shoes or money to the Shoes4Kids Foundation, send them to following addresses:

Mail financial donations to:

“Shoes4Kids”
Brad Thuringer, PTA
Instructor, ACCE
Physical Therapist Assistant Program
Lake Area Technical Institute
1201 Arrow Ave
PO Box 730
Watertown, South Dakota 57201

Mail NEW Shoe donations to:

Shoes4Kids
c/o Dr. R. Scott Ward, PT, PhD
Department of Physical Therapy
University of Utah
520 Wakara Way
Salt Lake City, UT 84108