Renaissance Village Retains TransMedia Group To Publicize Its Residential School To Benefit Palm Beach County's Most Precious Resource: Children BOCA RATON, Fla., October 7/PRNewswire/ -- TransMedia Group, South Florida's largest independent public relations firm, announced today that they have been retained by Renaissance Village, Inc. to publicize their innovative concept for a residential school for at-risk children. "TransMedia Group is proud of this planned long-term relationship with Renaissance Village and our focus will be to help in making their vision become a reality," said Glen Calder, Vice President of TransMedia Group. "We strongly support their efforts and are looking forward to the day when the children leave Renaissance Village better prepared for life and its many challenges, be it the pursuit of a college education or successful independent living and entry into the workforce." The first step in TransMedia's comprehensive publicity plan will focus on the cutting edge solutions that Renaissance Village will employ to protect Palm Beach County's most precious resource...our children. To achieve these results, the public relations firm will work to dispel the myths surrounding Renaissance Village and better educate the public on the facts of this extraordinary project. "We feel that TransMedia Group is the perfect partner for Renaissance Village; they are well qualified and committed to helping the children of Palm Beach County," said Reverend Leo F. Armbrust, founder and President of Renaissance Village. "TransMedia Group and its staff share in the vision we have for not only the project but in elevating children's lives." The mission of Renaissance Village is to serve children in crisis and strengthen families by offering campus and community-based programs. Renaissance Village, a boarding school for the poor, will have 300 students ages 13-to-18 in residence and another 300 attending on a day school basis. These children will be boys and girls who are at-risk from the myriad of threats in society today and who have not gotten into serious trouble, but without the special programs to be offered by Renaissance Village, may go in that direction. Renaissance Village is currently working with community and faith-based programs in historically underprivileged areas to provide aid for approximately 2,500 at-risk children and family members annually. "Out of its total of 1.2 million buildable acres, Palm Beach County has set aside over 300,000 acres (1 out of every 4) for environmental preservation, but set aside only 22 acres for the preservation of children," added Calder. "This disparity must be addressed, and Renaissance Village has developed a thoughtfully planned concept for children that will also respect and protect Florida's sensitive environment. If you could do both -- save children while respecting the environment -- is there any reason you wouldn't?" For more information visit www.renvill.org. Contact: Glen Calder (561) 750-9800, ext. 16 GCalder@transmediagroup.com