(Continued from the Home page) ... With the goal of building five new buildings on its existing campus, the Home has launched the Public Phase of its Capital Campaign II. This has been kicked off with the exciting news that The Kresge Foundation has awarded the Home with a one million dollar challenge grant -- if we can raise $6.2 million by June 30th, 2008, the Home will receive $1 million in funds!
Click here to view more photos taken at the Public Kickoff event on October 8, 2007.
Waiting Lists are Growing at Home of the Innocents
The need has never been greater—
- Home of the Innocents has up to 35 medically fragile children on the waiting list every night. These families are desperately in need of a bed in the Kosair Charities Pediatric Convalescent Center. In fact, there are medically fragile children who have waited 5 years.
- Families have been waiting up to one and a half years for respite care in the Kosair Charities Pediatric Convalescent Center.
- Throughout Kentucky, there are 7,300 children in the foster care system, and more than 1,500 of these children depend on the services of the Home each year.
- Children with autism are being diagnosed at epidemic rates – only 10 years ago, one in 10,000 children was diagnosed, and today, it is one in 150 children. The Home’s autism program is expanding rapidly to try and meet this growing need, but 55 families are on the waiting list to receive Home-to-Home Autism services.
“Just two years after moving to the children’s village on Market Street, the Home was fully utilized by children and their families from across the region. Then, our waiting lists started to build. There are consistent waiting lists of medically fragile children; children experiencing abuse, abandonment, and neglect; and those diagnosed with autism. These needs are placing demands on our services that can only be addressed by expansion of facilities and services,” explains Gordon Brown, President and CEO of Home of the Innocents.
If you would like to make a gift to allow the Home to help more children and families, please click here.
Capital Campaign is Funding New Buildings to Provide More Services to More Children
Our Capital Campaign Phase II encompasses building five new buildings (approximately 134,000 square feet) that will be built on the current 20.5 acre campus.
The five buildings are—
- The Kay & Jim Morrissey Advanced Therapy Center - offering a heated therapeutic pool, and year-round therapeutic and recreational space.
- The Hockensmith Assessment Center - a three-story comprehensive center offering a full assessment services for the complex needs of disadvantaged and disabled children in Kentucky and southern Indiana.
- Additional beds for the Kosair Charities Pediatric Convalescent Center- serving medically fragile who require technology and 24-hour care to survive.
- Additional beds for the Childkind Center- serving abandoned, abused, and neglected children.
- A three-room schoolhouse - serving the increased number of children who will be on campus, and especially serving children who are too ill, and hose with severe behavioral issues that make it difficult for them to go to their normal schools, as well as helping children transition to public school.
Gordon Brown adds a note about the Hockensmith Assessment Center usage, “We are happy to announce that the Commission for Children with Special Needs will be co-locating its offices with us at the Hockensmith Assessment Center. Through this mutually beneficial arrangement, we can save funds by sharing administration services and the Commission will have great access to state of the art assessment technology and tools.”
To make a contribution towards the Home's Capital Campaign, please click here.
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