Our Mission Focus:
The Refuge for Children &
Operation Compassion
The Refuge for Children
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.
Many times, children have to be removed from their homes while their parents work to gain and maintain a healthy, drug-free lifestyle. Being removed from the home is an incredibly traumatic experience for every child. The trauma is compounded when a local placement can’t be found and the child has to be placed outside his or her community. The separation severs important bonds the child has formed with school personnel, friends or relatives.
The Refuge was formed to give hope to these children and their families by providing immediate trauma-informed care for displaced children. The Long-term plans include Foster Care placement, Foster Parent care and support, youth and family enrichment services and family reunification support. Floor plans have been prepared and approved. The Indiana state licensure and contract application has been initiated. Their goal is to begin serving children in 2021. They need your financial support to build The Refuge.
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Operation Compassion
We are grateful to partner With Operation Compassion, a non-profit international disaster relief charity. For over 20 years, Operation Compassion has faithfully served the global community. Operation Compassion has made an impact in the lives of those in crisis around the world. To date, Operation compassion has:
Reached around the world, providing assistance in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Africa.
Distributed hundreds of thousands of items a year to those in need.
Responded to 85 major catastrophic including:
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Ida
Flooding of the Mississippi River
Indonesian Tsunami
Southeastern Tornadoes
Norman, OK Super Tornado
2010 and 2021 Haiti Earthquakes
Multiple African Humanitarian Crises including civil wars and disease outbreaks
Rebuilt homes
Served an average of 98,000 people internationally per month
Provided aid to 71 countries, and 47 states.
Shipped an average of 29 shipping containers per month; an average 348 per year.
Shipped 15 semi-trailers per month for domestic uses; 180 per year.
This is not counting special shipments during a disaster.