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Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children. Sunrise Children's Services (or Sunrise) is a nonprofit organization based in Kentucky. [1] It is the state's largest provider of services to children in crisis. [1] Its services include providing homes to abused, abandoned, or neglected children. Sunrise is owned and operated by the Kentucky Baptist ...
Connie Maxwell Children's Home is a Baptist-church run residential group home headquartered in Greenwood, South Carolina, United States. [1] Since 1892, [2] Connie Maxwell Children’s Home has cared for and supported thousands of children and families. With 4 locations across South Carolina, [3] this ministry becomes a family to those who need ...
Mercy Home began accepting girls in 1987. Three years later, it was renamed Mercy Home for Boys and Girls. Mercy Home is composed of two separate campuses where abused and neglected children are cared for—the Boys' Campus, located in Chicago's West Loop area, and the Girls' Campus, located south, in Chicago's Morgan Park community.
Oklahoma Baptist Homes for Children (OBHC) is a nonprofit organization which aims to provide homes for children affected by abuse, abandonment, neglect, or poverty. [2] [3] Founded in 1903 as an orphan's home, the Baptist Homes for Children is a family-style residential care facility with eight children residing in cottages on four campuses across the state.
Study period at a Roman Catholic Indian Residential School in Fort Resolution, NWT. The Canadian Indian residential school system[ nb 1 ] was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples. [ nb 2 ] The network was funded by the Canadian government 's Department of Indian Affairs and administered by various Christian churches.
Portrait of Charles A. Dickinson. Kurn Hattin Homes for Children is a non-profit located in Westminster, Vermont, which serves as a charitable home and school for boys and girls, ages 6–15, who are affected by tragedy, social or economic hardship, or other disruption in family life. It was founded in 1894 by Reverend Charles Albert Dickinson ...
Ellen Smyly (née Franks, 1815–1901) was an Irish charity worker. She was born on 14 November 1815, the daughter of Matthew Franks. She became a prominent philanthropist, fund-raising and setting up homes and schools for the poor. The Smyly Homes and subsequent Smyly Trust are named after her and her family.
Tennessee Baptist Children's Homes. Tennessee Baptist Children's Homes, Inc, a non-profit organization founded in 1891, is a ministry of the churches of the Tennessee Baptist Convention which provides residential care and foster care support for children, as well as family care resources in the state. The organization has locations in all three ...