Community Projects

Murphy-Harpst Children's Center campus renovation

2015 Community Project

Murphy-Harpst Children's Center

101 children served on campus

About Murphy-Harpst Children's Center

Murphy-Harpst Children's Center in Cedartown, Georgia provides residential treatment and foster care for some of the state's most vulnerable children — youth who have experienced severe abuse, neglect, and trauma. SOARD renovated living spaces on their 160-acre campus, creating environments where children in state custody can feel safe, supported, and at home during their healing journey.

Project Photos

Thank-you posters signed by the children, listing Sunshine on a Ranney Day and its partners

Hand-lettered thank-you posters covered in signatures on a whiteboard

Thank-you poster for Sunshine on a Ranney Day and Jeff Walker, covered in signatures

Colorful thank-you poster filled with handwritten notes from the children

Handwritten note on a poster: “Thank you so much for our chill spot!”

Close-up of a handwritten thank-you note for the new chill spot

Signed poster thanking Jackson Healthcare, Randall-Paulson, Mohawk and American Signature Furniture

Signed poster thanking Reliable Heating & Air, Real Floors, PMC and Signarama

Handwritten note on a poster thanking the team for always being there for them

Brick building with balloons and a hand-painted Thank You banner on the porch rail

Stacked clear bins full of building bricks by a doorway

Three clear storage bins packed with colorful building bricks

Waiting nook with rainbow stripes painted up the wall and across the ceiling, two chairs and a water cooler

Sunroom lounge with a navy sofa, two armchairs, a yellow coffee table and a hanging pink swing chair

Brick-building wall spelling MURPHY under a row of windows

MURPHY spelled out in colorful building bricks on a gray wall panel

Navy tufted sofa and yellow round coffee table in front of the brick-letter wall

HARPST spelled in building bricks along the wall below the windows

Three fuzzy gray floor cushions and a pink hanging swing chair by the windows

Media wall with a TV on a wood console between metal shelves holding games

Sunroom with MURPHY HARPST in building bricks along the wall and a navy sofa

Four adults sit on the new sofa and chairs around the yellow coffee table

A man stands between a navy brick wall and a climbing wall with yellow holds

Guests, staff and a camera crew gather in a hall for the reveal

Staff and visitors stand in a room with a chandelier as a camera crew films

Guests line a hallway as they wait to tour the renovated rooms

Two young people add pieces to the building-brick wall

Guests tour the sunroom lounge with its swing chair and floor cushions

Visitors talk in the sunroom while someone builds on the brick wall

Someone climbs the wooden climbing wall with yellow holds

A woman in a staff polo and a man smile together by the window

A man sits in the hanging pink swing chair as guests look on

Navy sofa, armchair and yellow coffee table beside the hanging pink swing chair

Brick letters spelling MURPHY HARPST along the gray wall panels

TV lounge with a navy sofa, white armchair, yellow table and a bright orange door

Pink hanging swing chair beside the brick-built MURPHY lettering

Three fuzzy floor cushions and a pink hanging swing chair in the sunroom

Sunroom with a pink swing chair, floor cushions, a navy sofa and brick-letter wall

Murphy-Harpst Children's Center campus renovation

Rainbow stripes running up the wall and across the ceiling of a hallway kitchenette

Kitchenette with white cabinets and a water cooler under rainbow-striped walls

Two teal chairs and a small table under a rainbow painted across the wall and ceiling

Partners who made it possible.

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501(c)(3) · EIN 45-4773997 · All donations tax-deductible