Rock Island, IL - Christian Care has received a $500 grant from the Rock Island Community Foundation to help provide counseling for children who arrive at its domestic violence shelter with their mothers.
As victims or witnesses to domestic violence, these children are affected emotionally, socially, psychologically, physically, and behaviorally during their formative years, and their well-being and cognitive development ultimately impacts their adult functioning if left untreated. These children are three times more likely to grow up and repeat the patterns of domestic abuse, either by becoming a victim of an abusive relationship, or an abuser.
By intervening in the lives of the children, and providing legal advocacy if needed, Christian Care creates an opportunity to heal what would otherwise become long-term and perhaps even permanent emotional and mental scars resulting from the trauma of the children's exposure to domestic violence.
Christian Care is transforming the lives of homeless individuals, victims of domestic violence, veterans, men and women coming out of prison, and those with mental illness. Its two facilities?a domestic violence shelter for abused women and children and a rescue mission for homeless men?provide safe shelter, nutritious meals, clothing, counseling, referrals and guidance to those in need. Its services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week with the goal of nourishing the bodies, minds, hearts and souls of the men, women and children who come seeking a new way of life. If you know someone in need, call the Christian Care crisis hotline any hour of the day or night at (309) 788-2273.
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