Jim Roberts – TLC for Children and Families Inc.

Grand Worthy President Jim Roberts has elected to raise funds for the TLC for Children and Families Inc. located in Olathe, KS during his 2008-2009 term. Money raised during Jim’s year as president will directly benefit the children and families of TLC through providing living essentials, nutritional food, educational services and much more.

About TLC

TLC for Children and Families Inc. was founded 35 years ago by the Johnson County Young Matrons to fulfill an unmet need for an emergency shelter for abused and neglected children. Over the years, TLC’s mission has expanded as they have stepped further to help children and youth in crisis. The mission of TLC is ‘to provide opportunities that encourage positive growth and change for children, youth and families while ensuring a safe environment’. TLC strives for the preservation and healing of families by providing services to the extent allowed by available resources that complement existing community services.

Resources Provided by TLC

• Resource Family Services Program: provides safe and nurturing temporary homes to children and youth 0-18 who are removed from their homes because of abuse, neglect or other family disruption.
• Juvenile Intake and Assessment: is open 24 hours a day to provide a single point of contact for children in need of care and juvenile offenders who come into contact with law enforcement.
• Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF): homes designed to serve children (11-18) who are primarily in JJA or SRS custody and need intensive/collaborative clinical, psychiatric, and medical services.
• Street Outreach Services: provide services to youth ages 12-17 who are homeless, at-risk of being homeless, and/or are runaways living on the streets of Johnson and Jackson counties. The goal of this mobile unit is to provide safe and healthy alternatives to youth by assisting them in either reconnecting with their family or origin (if safe to do so) or in finding shelter, housing and/or other concrete supportive services that may aid the youth in getting off the streets.
• Juvenile Intervention Services: case management services that provide support and guidance to the families of youth suspected of committing a crime, who have been reported to the District Attorney’s office as truant, or who are present in a home where domestic violence is occurring.
• Youth Crisis Services: an outreach program to serve youth in crisis who have fallen between the cracks of existing social service programs. This program serves youth who have run away, been placed out of their homes, or are otherwise homeless or may be experiencing family conflict.
• Emergency Shelter/Youth Residential Center (YRC) II Services: a community-bases shelter program providing emergency and temporary shelter, individual and family counseling, educations and vocational training, life skills and independent living training, mentoring and organized recreation to youth ages 11 to 18.

Donate Today!

To learn more about TLC, please visit www.kidstlc.org. To support GWP Robert’s charity, please send a check donation to the Eagle Charity Foundation, earmarked in the memo section GWP Charity Project or TLC.