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Thank you for your interest in Children's Homes, Inc. We are a faith-based organization that provides therapeutic care for children and families in need through family-style residential care, foster care, and adoptive services.

If you would like to refer a child to Children's Homes, or to download an application, please click the appropriate link:

E-mail Us: children@childrenshomes.org

Reaching out to children and families for more than 50 years!

Our Mission:

  • To provide a substitute home for dependent and neglected children, and
  • To restore the broken lives of children and families.

Change for Children

Change for Children coinbank

Contact us to learn how you can be involved in our annual campaign!

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Shopping List

If your congregation collects food and other grocery items for our cottages, here's a list of things we need at this time:

  • Canned Chicken
  • Cream of Chicken
  • Cereal
  • Tea (reg. and decaf.)
  • Juice
  • Pancake Mix
  • Salad Dressing

Volunteerism

We need volunteers to help in these specific areas:

  • Mentoring a child
  • Painting
  • Farm work 
  • Mowing
  • Filing/Clerical work

Contact Arvil Hill for more information.

Our Ministry:

Since 1955, we've provided loving, Christian homes for children whose parents cannot care for them because of death, separation, abandonment, illness or other reasons.

Our Means:

Children's Homes is 100% privately supported, and does not accept government boarding payments. Funding comes from donations from churches, individuals, businesses, groups and foundations.
Learning Center PDF Print E-mail

In August 2007, we officially opened the new James & Charlene Balcom Learning Center ("The BLC"). This facility provides 8,000 square feet of classroom, meeting, and office space for our children and those who work closest with them.

The heart of the BLC is the alternative learning environment. Children's Homes has operated an alternative learning environment -- originally called the Little Red Schoolhouse program -- on its campus for many years. The move to the BLC allowed us to double the number of students who can learn in this special atmosphere.

The BLC features two large classrooms, each bordered by 13 "learning carrels" -- where each student spends quiet, undistracted time with his or her schoolwork. Each classroom also has its own "breakout room" -- a smaller classroom in which targeted groups of children can study a specific subject without interrupting the lessons being taught in the main classroom area. The BLC also has a multi-purpose room that provides space for a library, for meetings, and for group therapy sessions.

The BLC also provides much-needed office space for the therapeutic caseworkers and others who spend the majority of their time each day working with children, families, state agencies and court representatives. 
 
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Are You a Former Resident?

 

We try our best to keep up with our former residents of Children's Homes, but it's not always easy! There have been many children who have lived at Children's Homes over the last 53 years, and try as we might, we just haven't stayed in contact with all of them.We want to hear from our former residents!

If you're a former resident of Children's Homes, we'd love to hear from you. Please follow the link below to update us on what you've been up to since you left our care. Let us know whatever you'd like to share with us. We want to know how you're doing -- we care about you!

 

Click here to update us...

Our Methods:

We implement a multifaceted program designed to help each child overcome his or her own unique issues. For specifics, check the Programs & Services menu at the top of this page.

From the CEO

As always, welcome to Children's Homes!

Although you're visiting our online home, we hope you'll like what you see, and that you'll find what you're looking for. Just as we hope your visit to our actual campus is a pleasant one, we have similar goals for your online experience with us. In the weeks to come, we'll unveil additions to this website that we believe will make childrenshomes.org a site you can use to advance our ministry in a number of ways.

Please be sure to note our newest and most significant addition: Online giving. There is a link at the top of each page that will help you make a gift to Children's Homes via your debit card, credit card or PayPal account. You'll also find a great many new features, as well as up-to-date information, and we hope these updates are useful to you as you help us champion the cause of children in need.

As you click through our new site, please consider carefully how you might partner with us -- in person or online -- as we go about our work of turning children back into the blessings God intended them to be.

-- Micah Brinkley
Executive Director & CEO

Micah Brinkley, Executive Director

 

 

 

 

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Blogs, Etc.

Visit, bookmark and share these Children's Homes blogs!

  • Cottage Living
    Experience the ups and downs of life as a houseparent
    in one of Children's Homes' cottages.
  • Rainbow Connection
    Explore the latest news, events and musings
    from Children's Homes staff members.

Children's Homes, Inc.

5515 Walcott Road
Paragould, AR  72450

Phone: 870.239.4031 or 1.800.382.4114
Main Fax: 870.236.1236
Child & Family Services Fax: 870.236.9743

Web:
www.childrenshomes.org

General E-Mail:
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