BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES
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Mission Statement
Keeping children safe, strengthening families, and building healthy communities since 1899.
About This Cause
Bethany for Children & Families is a private child welfare, mental health, community education, and social services provider that has offered aid and support to children and families in western Illinois and eastern Iowa since 1899. The organization staffs a professional team of 70 social workers, licensed counselors, case managers, and educators, directed by a Board of volunteer community leaders. Offering 22 programs and services, Bethany serves over 10,000 children and families annually. Bethany's programs and services are accredited by the Council on Accreditation, a nonprofit accreditor of human services. Today, the agency provides services in Scott, Clinton, Jackson, Muscatine, and Cedar counties in Iowa, and Rock Island, Henry, Mercer, Whiteside, Knox, Warren, and Henderson counties in Illinois. Bethany’s service area covers over 7,050 square miles and a population of over 642,100 people, of which over 145,800 are under 18 years of age and over 28,400 are children in poverty. The agency is able to provide its array of services with funding from the United States Department of Health and Human Services; the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services; the Illinois Department of Human Services; the Iowa Department of Human Services; the United Way of the Quad Cities Area; the Rock Island County (708) Mental Health Board; the Donated Funds Initiative (Title XIX funds of the Social Security Act); and generous private community donors and foundations. Agency services include adoption; foster care; programs that provide counseling and therapy services to children at their school; a mobile dental program that visits children at their school to provide dental examinations and cleanings free of charge to those children who have no insurance or have Title XIX insurance; an after-school program that helps at-risk youth learn anger management and social skills; programs to help families and teens overcome homelessness; child welfare services that provide protective and preventative services to children who are at-risk or are victims of abuse or neglect; and education programs for junior high and high school students that teach self-esteem, respect, risks of sexual behavior, and responsibility.