Formed in 1924 as Memorial Child Guidance Clinic, ChildSavers has been serving the mental health needs of children for ninety years. In the twelve-month period ending June 2014, ChildSavers’ Trauma Response Team nearly two thousand hours of trauma-informed counseling to children and teens that witnessed or experienced a traumatic event.
The Trauma Response Team members are ChildSavers’ first responders. Their timely intervention is an essential first step in a long-term healing process, and ChildSavers has programs to meet these ongoing needs. Counseling services help children like Liam and Melanie process events in an age-appropriate and emotionally healing way. Play therapy, sand trays, and art and music therapy are key components in the healing process.
Beyond trauma response, ChildSavers provides a wide variety of outpatient counseling services for children. Therapy is also extended to the families who support these children. In all cases, services are provided regardless of a patient’s economic circumstances.
A third ChildSavers program, Child Development Services, works with childcare providers across the region to ensure that these providers are properly trained, and their facilities equipped to provide high-quality childcare.
“Every child in our community should be safe, healthy, happy, and ready to learn,” says L. Robert Bolling, ChildSavers CEO. “Unfortunately, for many of our kids this is not reality. ChildSavers is a place where children find healing and hope, and where those who teach our community’s youngest can enhance their skills so that these children can be successful in school and in life.”
There is no cure for the traumas some children have to endure, but there can be recovery. It’s a process that unfolds slowly, over the course of years, but it begins right there in the heart of the devastation, when ChildSavers responds to the call of a child in trouble.
Artists Support ChildSavers Show
Opening reception:
October 30, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Glavé Kocen Gallery, 1620 West Main Street
This special show and sale features artists whose work is on display at ChildSavers. At least half of all proceeds from the sale will support ChildSavers. Thirty-five artists are participating, including Diego Sanchez, Matt Lively, Louis Poole, Steve Hedberg, Frankie Slaughter, Bill Fisher, Chuck Larivey, Ed Trask, and Alex Nyerges.
Also at Glavé Kocen Gallery in support of ChildSavers:
November 1, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
InLight Lantern Making Workshop with 1708 Gallery
November 1, 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Artist demonstration with Matt Lively
