BOYS AND GIRLS HOME OF NORTH CAROLINA INC
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Mission Statement
MISSION: Boys and Girls Homes of North Carolina is dedicated to providing a continuum of care to meet the physical, emotional, mental, behavioral, social, educational, and spiritual needs of children, youth, and families in distress or at-risk. Our VISION is to provide an environment of care that promotes health, healing, and hope among children, youth, and families entering our care continuum. Boys and Girls Homes of North Carolina, Inc. is dedicated to providing a comprehensive array of residential and community-based services to meet the needs of vulnerable children by addressing their physical, emotional, social, educational, and spiritual development.
About This Cause
Childhood lasts a lifetime. Let us continue to work together to create hopeful futures for the ones we can reach. Boys and Girls Homes of North Carolina (B&GH) makes futures brighter for children and the communities we serve. B&GH has provided safe and loving homes for over 8000 abused and neglected children in NC since 1954. Yet, we incorporate innovation to meet the ever-changing trauma-informed needs of children. Thank you so much for being so supportive. Thank you for being an essential part of influencing a positive outcome for each child. For over 65 years, we have helped children heal to become healthy and productive members of society through the programs of our not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) agency. B&GH currently provides residential and foster care to youth from 36 North Carolina counties. During the first 40-45 years of service, children's primary needs were basic such as safety, food, clothing, shelter, educational support, and love. Most children just needed tender, loving care. In the following decades, the dynamic of dysfunctional families changed dramatically, resulting in an entirely different profile of the youth we serve with increased emotional, physical, medical, and mental health trauma. We have evolved our care and services to meet these more difficult challenges. With our focus on the current needs of children, B&GH will continue to evolve and enhance our history of success in breaking the cycle of abuse for youth in NC. For example, The Harbor Emergency Shelter at the Boys and Girls Homes provides a short-term (14 to 90 day) crisis care center for immediate intervention, stabilization, and mediation services for child victims of physical, sexual, or emotional abuse and neglect. The ten beds you helped us develop are at total capacity, and the demand to help more children is high. To meet this greater demand, we are creating another ten beds in The Harbor by repurposing current facilities to meet this need. The program will continue the critical focus on children’s safety, permanency, and well-being. The program functions as a “victims triage center” and immediately responds to the child’s needs at risk and supports families, counties, and state agencies with a short-term focused care placement option. Qualified staff will provide 24/7 care, counseling support, and programs designed to suit individual children in placement. The safety, permanency, and well-being of children are addressed by: • Providing a stable living environment with food, clothing, and safe shelter • Providing for the children’s physical and mental health, counseling, therapy, recreation, education, social and rehabilitation needs • Determining their near-term risk through safety screening and sex trafficking assessments • Engaging families to help eliminate conditions that led to a child’s removal from the home. • We are maintaining connections to home and community in collaboration with the referral entities and the child’s support system. There are four primary outcomes for the family and youth who enter the Respite CARE program at the Harbor. These outcomes in priority order are: • Reunification with non-offending family • Non-offending Kinship placement • Foster Care • Long-term Residential care Another example of our services is our Child Advocacy Center. We renovated a home gifted to BGHNC that serves as a child advocacy center (CAC) for children of North Carolina. Child abuse, especially sexual exploitation, often goes undiscovered, unrevealed, unprosecuted. It is never comfortable for any of us to imagine that child physical or sexual abuse occurs in our backyard, but it does. Our Children’s Advocacy Center works on behalf of the children and youth in our community who suffer from sexual abuse. We help children and their families experiencing abuse tell their stories in a safe, caring environment. Our trained forensic interviewers are certified experts in conducting child-friendly neutral interviews with children and teens that have experienced and/or have witnessed any abuse or violence. We provide objective health care and forensic evaluation in a trauma-informed, competent, compassionate, culturally/linguistically appropriate, and victim-centered manner. Child victims to tell their story, have the story videoed and recorded for the District Attorney to prosecute the perpetrator, receive a sexual assault medical exam, and then provide follow-up mental health services to the child to help them heal from the trauma of assault. All this will be provided at no cost to the family by Boys and Girls Homes. Before our CAC, children would have to travel hours away and wait months to tell their stories. Your funds will help us operate this program at no cost to the family and make the future brighter for these children. The CAC will service about 20 children per month for a total of around 220 children per year. We invite you to visit us at our beautiful Lake Waccamaw campus. Connect with the resilient children we serve. Meet our staff and learn more about the Waccamaw Way. We would love the opportunity to share more about our holistic approached to trauma-informed care.