Fairfax School for Students with Special Challenges Opens New Parking Lot

FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA -- In all, 28 local contractors working with the Heavy Construction Contractors Association have donated 800 hours plus materials to rebuild a parking lot and sidewalks for the nonprofit PHILLIPS Programs for Children and Families’ School in Annandale, which serves youth with emotional, behavioral and academic challenges.

PHILLIPS Programs for Children and Families hosted a ribbon-cutting Monday to celebrate its new parking lot and sidewalks for its school in Annandale, located at 7010 Braddock Road. When PHILLIPS -- a nonprofit that helps youth from around the region with special challenges succeed — needed to repair and upgrade its 27-year old parking lot and sidewalks, the Heavy Construction Contractor's Association (HCCA) and 28 of its local members stepped up, donating more than 800 hours, plus materials, to make this possible.

Valued at $150,000, the project included:

• Milling and disposing of 350 tons of asphalt from the existing driveway and bus circle
• Preparing the surface and paving with 350 tons of new asphalt
• Excavating and rebuilding ADA compliant ramps with 27 cubic yards of concrete
• Repainting curbs and crosswalks
• Replacing 15 directional signs

Participants at the ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday included:

• Sharon Bulova, Chairman, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
• Penny Gross, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
• Piper Phillips Caswell, President & CEO, PHILLIPS Programs for Children and Families
• Mike Policcicchio, Partner EY and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, PHILLIPS
• Ken Garrison, Executive Director, HCCA
• Glenn Kauffman, CEO, The Kauffman Group
• David White, Vice President, Superior Paving Corp
• Student Government Officers
• Parents, students, teachers, local business and civic leaders
• Pat Herrity, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
• Jim Corcoran, President and CEO, NOVA Chamber
• Lori Lopez, Chairman, Board of Directors, Tysons Chamber

PHILLIPS is a unique nonprofit that works throughout the region, serving students with special needs ages 6-22 who have significant learning and emotional challenges and for whom school has often been a place of repeated failure and frustration.

Being selected for HCCA’s annual Pave It Forward! charitable giving program will enable PHILLIPS to do more for its students and families.

Participating companies included: AH&T Insurance, Aggregate Industries, Alban CAT, American Paving Fabrics, Inc., B&B Signal, Branscome Signal, Ferguson Supply, Hanes Geo Components, HCCA, Insight, Luckstone, Paynes Pro Pave, Quarles Energy Services, RISH Equipment, S.W. Rogers, Shirley Contracting, Superior Asphalt, Superior Paving, Total Development Solutions, The Kauffman Group, Traffic Safety Supplies, Virginia Paving, Virginia Contractor Supply, Vulcan, W.G. Construction, and William A. Hazel.

For 49 years, PHILLIPS has helped youth succeed by providing customized support and education through three programs, including: Special Education Day Schools in Annandale, VA, Fairfax, VA and Laurel, MD; PHILLIPS Family Partners offering home- and community-based counseling and support; and PHILLIPS’ Building Futures Program, an intensive building trades program for students with disabilities in Fairfax and Loudoun counties.

Photos from the event Monday:

PHOTO: Representatives from all the firms at Monday's event.

PHOTO: The Kauffman Group’s Glenn Kauffman speaks about his company’s participation in donation

PHOTO at top of page: Delegate Keam, Supervisor Penny Gross, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chair Sharon Bulova, PHILLIPS’ Piper Phillips, AHT’s Karen Garvin, EY’s Mike Policcicchio, Tyson’s Chamber’s Angela Inzerillo; all photos courtesy of organizers