ROCK HOUSE KIDS
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Mission Statement
Rock House Kids - help for today...hope for eternity. Meeting the physical, emotional, and educational needs of inner-city children by instilling hope in a safe, Christ-centered environment.
About This Cause
Founded in 1999, Rock House Kids is a 501 (C) 3 organization that seeks to physically, spiritually, and emotionally feed the inner city children of Rockford, IL. A growing number of children from ages 6 to 18 need a safe, warm, nurturing environment. During our evening programs (Monday and Wednesday nights for first through sixth-grade students and Tuesday and Thursday nights for seventh through twelfth grades), we serve hot meals and enjoy music and instructional time in a group. We then break into smaller age-appropriate groups for mentoring in basic life skills with compassionate adult volunteers that encourage the children to do their best in school and give them positive life goals. We take educational field trips, have purity classes, teach manners, instill preventive gang involvement, and we distribute kid-friendly food bags of non-perishable food items to each child. With the help of a wonderful community, we can have many seasonal giveaways. We hold “drives” each month and collect such items as toothbrushes/paste, lotions, lip balm, socks, flip flops, winter items (new coats, hats, scarves, mittens), blankets, backpacks/school supplies, shoes, and Christmas presents. Rock House Kids is located in a very difficult and crime-ridden part of town. Families struggling to survive, “ladies of the night” walking the streets at all times of the day, gang and drug activity is rampant, and police and ambulance sirens fill the air. This is where most of our children served lives. Rock House Kids is committed to breaking the cycle in which these children must survive each day. We help them with physical needs such as a hot meal every night our program is open and a kid-friendly take-home food bag of items. We also provide coats, hats, gloves, and blankets in the wintertime, socks in the spring, flip flops in the summer, school supplies and backpacks in the fall, and so on. Spiritual guidance is very important. We share with the children there is someone who truly loves them unconditionally and cares about their every need and concern; his name is Jesus. Each month our classroom leaders focus on a specific theme, i.e., Thankfulness in November, Christmas in December, etc., which helps encourage and strengthens them spiritually. Our building on Seventh Street is a place of learning and growing. We hope you, too, will see the need and want to be a part of the solution. All gifts and donations are appreciated and go towards the effective programs of Rock House Kids. Being a 501 c (3) nonprofit organization, we do not receive any government funding.