Comforts for Children
Agencies Served
and the Children to Whom They Give Quilts
1st Way: Quilts go to new borns of young women choosing to keep babies that are a result of an unwanted pregnancy.
American Red Cross: Typically quilts go to children of families who fall victim to local house fires or other small-scale emergencies.
Department of Human Services, Children's Services: State of Oregon agency to protect neglected and abused children by counseling families and/or placing the children (ages birth through 17) in temporary shelter or long term foster care homes. The foster care homes program and Babies First are the auxiliary divisions being served.
First Place Family Center: Serves homeless families with children by temporarily sheltering them at local participating churches. At their headquarters they provide basic needs such as child care, meals, showers, laundry, telephone access, and an address.
Looking Glass: Station 7 & Evaluation and Treatment Center: Serves children ages 12-17. Station 7 serves the "runaway and throwaway kids" who have left home. Provides temporary shelter and counseling. The Evaluation and Treatment Center houses children during a period of treatment and evaluation. We supply bunk size bed quilts as well as our usual small comfort quilts to both facilities.
McKenzie Willamette Hospital: Emergency and Pediatrics child patients experiencing neglect, abuse, or other trauma.
Healthy Start: Healthy Start is a voluntary family support and parent education home visiting program. It helps first-time families give their newborn children the best start in life.
Sacred Heart Medical Center: CFC supplies both the RiverBend and University District facilities. Quilts are given to children, primarily babies and younger children, coming into emergency or surgery because of neglect, abuse, or other traumatic reasons, where the nurses, at their discretion, feel the need to give special comfort. A component program for at risk families also gets quilts.
Safe Center: Part of Jasper Mountain Home, Safe Center provides 30 to 90 day evaluation stays for up to 14 children, ages 5 to 12, to diagnose where they can best be placed.
SCAR/Jasper Mountain Home: Provides long term care to rehabilitate emotionally damaged children, ages 5 to 12. We provide bunk size as well as the comfort quilts.
The Child Center: Serves severely emotionally and behaviorally disturbed children, ages 3 to 12, in both an on-site school/day care program for 55 to 60 children and an out-patient program. Both programs and therapists are certified by the State Mental Health Division. With 500 to 600 children being served including the out-patient program, quilts are given at the discretion of the therapists.
Victims Services Program: Quilts may be given to children of families who are victims of crime and in need of legal and survivor services. Operates out of the Lane County District Attorney's office.
Willamette Family Treatment Services Womens Residential: Quilts go to children of women who are housed at the facility for a period of time while going through detoxification and other treatment for alcoholism and/or chemical dependency.
Womenspace: When they enter the shelter's safe housing facility, children ages birth through 17 of women victims of domestic violence receive quilts.
This page was last updated October 17, 2009.
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