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 Hope Center for Women with Children
1201 Hope Center Lane
P.O. Box 124
Cottage Hills, IL 62018
Phone: 1-618-259-4673 (HOPE)
Through office visits with our clients, our volunteers have discovered that the devastating tragedy of homelessness and child abuse is rampant in our neighborhoods. At the Hope Center for Women with Children, we are in a daily battle to prevent this tragedy and to get help for these vulnerable young women and their children. According to a recent child abuse report issued by the Department of Children and Family Services, Madison County is the third highest county in the state of Illinois for reported cases of child abuse. One of the major contributing factors to much of this abuse is the pressure often felt by displaced women with children who tolerate verbal, physical, and emotional abuse in trying to find a place of shelter for them and their small children. To meet this need the Community Hope Center is utilizing our children’s center facilities as a 15-room crisis relief shelter for homeless women with small children. It is located behind our main facility and is maintained by its own staff and is governed by the Board of Directors of the Community Hope Center.
OBJECTIVES
The Hope Center for Women with Children is committed to the welfare of at-risk women and children with a goal of endeavoring to give each displaced family the opportunity to receive life-skills and home economics training, job placement and housing assistance in addition to spiritual guidance.
The objectives of the Hope Center for Women with Children are:
- To provide homeless mothers with children an alternative to living in a potentially dangerous and unhealthy environment as a means of providing shelter for their small children.
- To offer a crisis relief shelter where help can be received to reduce the physical disorders, such as bed-wetting, headaches, stomachaches, skin problems, insomnia, and nightmares, that homelessness and abuse can cause.
- To help reduce and eliminate emotional disorders, such as feelings of anxiety, shame, guilt, fear, anger, and hatred, leading to depression and despair.
- To work with shocked and traumatized parents on a weekly basis to establish a healthy family environment in an affordable residence within the community.
Our facility is also working on the following additional objectives with the parent, child, and social workers:
- To establish and enhance the child's self-esteem.
- To show the parents and children different ways to seek and receive help.
- To help the child cope with their everyday living conditions.
Please help these vulnerable young women and their little children who cannot help themselves by becoming a Haven of Hope Partner. Your monthly support is needed and is tax deductible.
You can mail your tax deductible contribution to:
Community Hope Center
P.O. Box 124
Cottage Hills, IL 62018
Or contribute online by clicking on the “Donate” button below. (Online donation capability coming soon)
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