With your continued generous support, in 2023, the Children’s Hope Initiative (CHI) will be able to help Somerset County’s abused, neglected and traumatized youth in the following ways:
Continue these programs at spending levels provided in 2021 & 2022:
- Summer Connections 2023: Provide a three-week, 5 days-a-week therapeutic respite summer camp at Richard Hall Community Health & Wellness Center for 20 children offering equine therapy, karate, music/movement therapy, art therapy, as we did in 2021 ($40,000)
- CASA Tutoring – at-home tutoring for children in out-of-home placements ($10,000)
- Provide paid mentors for up to thirty (30) elementary and middle school children through Middle Earth Lunchtime Mentoring ($10,000)
- Serve up to nine (9) at-risk high school students in the Promise Plus Program offered by Middle Earth ($10,000)
- Serve up to eight (8) 18-21-year-old young adults who have “aged out” of the child welfare system through the Middle Earth Visions Plus program ($9,000)
- Provide “Fun Trips” for up to 100 abused and neglected children to a ropes adventure course, Dorney Park/Great Adventure, and/or Schaffer Farm ($5,000)
- Cut waiting time in half for children to begin treatment at Family & Community Services in Bound Brook ($4,000)
- Immigrant Children groups at Family and Community Services ($2,000)
- Paid Mentoring for five (5) young people under the care of the Somerset County Family Crisis Intervention Unit ($10,000)
- Mentoring seven (7) children in out-of-home placements through the CASA Fostering Futures Program ($9,500)