Donor 2018Report www.childhelp.org YOUR GENEROSITY AT WORK TABLE OF CONTENTS Founders‘ Message .......................................................... 4 Mission, Vision and Values ............................................. 6 The Challenge ....................................................................8 Five Too Many ................................................................. 9 Childhelp Solutions .........................................................10 For each dollar expended, Childhelp Chapters ......................................................... 16 over 90 cents is invested into Financial Summary ......................................................... 18 serving the children in need of our program services. Supporter Spotlight ....................................................... 19 Ways You Can Help ......................................................... 20 Leadership ...................................................................... 22 FOUNDERS’ MESSAGE 4 Childhelp Children’s Center of Arizona, which would win partners and friends: government agencies, community a Juvenile Justice Best Practice Award, and ongoing organizations, philanthropic groups. Innovation is learn- Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end recognition as a model center. A few years later, we pi- ing about how to fulfill our mission better, learning more ~ Seneca oneered a new take on the CAC model for underserved about us, and more about you. and rural populations, the first mobile children’s advoca- cy center. Those we help innovate too. They might not even know The mission of Childhelp is to meet the physical, emotional, ranches seemed more like prisons or boot camps, but we educational, and spiritual needs of abused, neglected and knew there was a better way … and children who needed they are a victim. They may be uncertain how to survive. at-risk children. It is not an inaccessible mission. Caring after to heal deserved better. So, you helped us shape Children’s In the wake of being removed from the home because They may not know where to seek help. But we help a child’s needs is a role as old as humanity. Nor is it com- Village USA into an institution that could grow in love into of abuse, there was a time when sibling groups were them learn. We help them understand. We help shape plicated. At its heart, the care we provide and lessons we today’s Childhelp Merv Griffin Village, and inspire Child- routinely separated, but Childhelp understands family, new beginnings in young lives, and we do it with your teach spring from a singular source: Love. help Alice C. Tyler Village in Virginia. With animal-assisted and our group homes and foster family and adoption help. therapy, art therapy, and all avenues of healing, together we agencies prioritize safely maintaining family groups. For 60 years, we have answered the needs of children who created a better way. That hardly seems innovative, but it was … until it wasn’t We hope this donor report will shed light on the work have been cast off, put aside, ignored, hurt and betrayed. anymore. we do and the direction we’re heading. Thank you for Each year, we find the best way to find our path is to create When we saw child abuse was inadequately addressed helping us improve so many lives in our 60 years of ser- it … to innovate. nationwide, we innovated again. The Childhelp National Now, Childhelp continues to innovate in Childhelp vice, and thank you for helping us get better at it every Child Abuse Hotline (1-800-4-A-CHILD) was the first and Speak Up Be Safe, bringing powerful educational and single year. No matter the direction of our next innova- At the beginning — during our International Orphans, Inc. only national hotline devoted entirely to abuse and neglect outreach efforts to keep every child in America safe, and tion, we know you will help us take each new step in the days — that meant shaping and strengthening bridges be- issues. We are proud to employ only professional crisis your support helps make that happen, and improves direction of love. Thank you. tween the philanthropic spirit of U.S. military personnel, the counselors, and the Hotline will continue to innovate — that work year after year. big hearts in suburban social clubs and committed advo- with text and online chat — through growing support from cates in Hollywood too. It meant getting ahead of Operation people like you. Innovation isn’t just new fiber optic cables, tablets and Babylift by mobilizing families and preparing the children for their voyages. As child advocacy centers (CACs) emerged as best practice, laptops for children in the Village. It isn’t just electronic Sara O’Meara Yvonne Fedderson we saw an opportunity to forge ahead again, opening the medical records and learning management systems for Co-Founder, CEO Co-Founder, President When our work turned homeward, orphanages and boys’ Childhelp Children’s Center of East Tennessee, and soon, staff. Innovation is blazing new trails between caring and Chairman and Vice Chairman OUR VISION & VALUES The founders of Childhelp, Sara O’Meara and Yvonne Fedderson, have guided the organization to help the lives of millions of children across the world. We credit our success at Childhelp to our OUR founders’ visionary beliefs, which are the heart of the organization: MISSION • Childhelp believes that every child has a unique contribution to make to the world. We do everything within our power to help children heal and develop self-esteem to reach their God- given potential. Childhelp exists to meet the physical, emotional, educational, and spiritual • We believe unconditional love is the foundation on which all needs of abused, neglected and at- healing begins. The entrance of each Childhelp facility features the words “All Who Enter Here Will Find Love.” risk children. We focus our efforts on advocacy, prevention, intervention, • These children, who have seen the worst that life has to offer, treatment and community outreach. deserve the best that we can provide while they are in the care of Childhelp. 6 These beliefs stay close to the hearts of all involved in Childhelp to ensure the aspirations for the organization’s future are consistent with those from its first day. GREAT MOMENTS IN THE The Childhelp National Child HISTORY OF CHILDHELP Childhelp The U.S. House of Abuse Hotline purchases Representatives unanimously Childhelp partners pilots online 270-acres of passes House Concurrent with Arizona State webchat services Through the hard work land in Culpeper, Resolution 76, supporting University to create across Arizona, of Sara and Yvonne, Virginia to site the Childhelp National Day Childhelp “Speak wins multi-year, In coordination with the US President the Childhelp of Hope. The resolution Up Be Safe” — an multi-million dollar Military, Sara and Yvonne Jimmy Carter Alice C. Tyler encourages Americans innovative prevention innovation grant organize what becomes designates the first Village which to take action and pray education curriculum to expand and known as “Operation Baby National Child Abuse would open in toward ending child abuse to help keep children research chat and Lift.” Prevention Month. 1993. and neglect. safe. text capabilities 1959 1975 1978 1979 1982 1991 1998 2000 2010 2011 2017 2018 International Orphans is Sara and Yvonne open the Children’s Village USA Supporters celebrate At the Governor’s Convention, Childhelp reaches the founded by Sara (Buckner) doors of their pioneering launches a national campaign the grand opening and Childhelp spearheads successful extraordinary milestone of O’Meara and Yvonne (Lime) residential treatment center, for the prevention of dedication of the Childhelp anti-abuse legislation. In an more than 10 million children Fedderson to support 11 exclusively for abused and child abuse and neglect, Children’s Center of Arizona unprecedented show of served by its programs across Japanese-American children neglected children, Childhelp including America’s first dedicated to Linda Pope in bipartisan support, each governor prevention, intervention and found homeless during a Merv Griffin Village, in national toll-free hotline — downtown Phoenix. from every state in the Union treatment. typhoon in Tokyo. Beaumont, CA. 1-800-4-A-CHILD®. signs the Governor’s Resolution to Eradicate Child Abuse. THE CHALLENGE Children are suffering from America’s best kept secret — child abuse. It Estimated child fatalities per day is a national epidemic in the United States, attributed to child maltreatment with a new report being 4.8 4.8 made every 10 seconds. 4.8 4.7 4.7 4.7 The U.S. has one of 4.6 4.6 the worst child abuse 4.5 mortality rates among 4.4 industrialized nations. 4.3 4.3 4.3 4.2 Every day on average, we 4.2 lose between four and 4 FATALITIES/DAY seven children to abuse and neglect.1,2 3.8 3.6 #FIVETOOMANY 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 America has made incredible strides against child abuse and stands to turn YEAR the tide against neglect through ongoing prevention and treatment efforts. Childhelp is proud to be a part of that. 9 Communities and advocates that support strong, healthy families and #FIVETOOMANY In one study, about 80 percent of Five children die every day as a 21-year-olds who were abused as happy, secure children are making a difference in lives right now. Medical result of child abuse and neglect in children met criteria for at least one and mental health interventions, enforcement efforts and public awareness the United States.1 psychological disorder.5 campaigns