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How to Help Families Affected by Newtown School Shooting - Newtown, CT Patch

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How to Help Families Affected by Newtown School Shooting

People all over the world want to know how to help Sandy Hook residents following Friday's horrifying mass shooting. Post "I want to help" in this comment thread to get updates on what you can do.
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Family members of victims in the Dec. 14, 2012 shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., that left at least 27 dead.
Newtown Superintendent of Schools Janet Robinson, in the background, was among officials at a press conference at Treadwell Park in Newtown on Dec. 14, 2012, in the wake of a shooting at Sandy Hook School that claimed the life of 26, including 20 children.
Newtown resident Liz Bogdanoff consoles her daughter, Julia, 13, during a vigil at St. John's Episcopal Church in Sandy Hook, Conn., on Dec. 15, 2012.
May all the Newtown victims rest in eternal peace.
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In the wake of the unimaginable tragedy at Sandy Hook School Friday people from all over the world—in Connecticut, California, Canada and much farther away in Australia and India—sent an outpouring of support and want to know how they can help.
If you want to be notified via email of ways to provide comfort and support during this difficult time, please post in the comments section: "I want to help."
Patch will continue to update this article with ways to help—posting updates to the story as well as in the comments thread, triggering an email notification to commenters—and if you know of an organization or fundraiser providing assistance, let us know in the comments section, too.
Already the United Way of Western Connecticut, in partnership with Newtown Savings Bank, created the Sandy Hook School Support Fund to help provide support services to the families and community that are affected.
Check donations may be mailed to: 
Sandy Hook School Support Fund
c/o Newtown Savings Bank
39 Main Street, Newtown CT  06470
If you have questions on the fund, you may call 800-461-0672.
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A former Sandy Hook Elementary School student named Ryan Kraft, also a longtime neighbor of the Lanza family, posted a Local Voices blog on Newtown Patch saying he set up a fund to help heal his community.
The link to the fund site is here — http://www.crowdrise.com/SHSRelief — and according to Kraft, all monies are directed toward the school's PTSA organization.
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