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The Refuge for Children
Grand Opening!
Thank you to everyone who made it out that day and to everyone who supports The Refuge for Children.
The need.
Scott and the surrounding counties in Southern Indiana have significant challenges affecting our children, including the opioid epidemic. Children are being removed from harmful home situations in record numbers, most commonly due to substance misuse. For example, out-of-home placements escalated from 470 children in 2014 to 822 children by October of 2018 in Southern Indiana’s Region 18 (Department of Child Services) which includes Scott County.
We’re UNDERWAY! Thanks to you we are making progress!
Did you know?
Forty seven percent (47%) of the 822 children are currently placed outside of their county of residence because options for out-of-home placements are very limited in our area.
In Scott County, 212 children are in out-of-home placement (October 2018).
Locally, children are frequently faced with multiple short-term placements until a long-term placement in Foster Care can be found.
These transfer experiences compound the trauma for children and remove them from a community with which they are familiar.
Our Vision
Our Community has heard the cry.
Our vision is to provide a safe haven and a stable, loving environment for abused, neglected and displaced children. A child should be provided the basic necessities and receive counseling, life skills training, resiliency development and access to education with all services wrapped in a trauma-informed care culture. The goal is to lessen the negative impact of childhood trauma so that the children and youth in our community have a greater probability for success. We can break the cycle of addiction, abuse and poverty in our community and increase positive, lifelong outcomes.
Pastor Steve Gwaltney
Board President
