WEST FRANKFORT – The Night’s Shield Children’s Crisis center staff would like to show you what an amazing service we are offering to families! Come see the bright, cheerful, safe haven we provide to children from our communities. Please bring family, friends, and anyone else who may need the service, wants to see how they can help, or to just see what a positive impact we are having! We will have pizza and cookies if you and the kids are hungry!
Diana Geisler, Hospital Services Administrator from DaVita Dialysis, presented center with a check from DaVita employees. Diana is a native of Thompsonville, and a TCHS graduate.
The Night’s Shield Children’s Crisis Shelter program serves families from the entire State of Illinois and especially the Southern Regions of Illinois. The program is a temporary emergency child care shelter that provides short-term care for children age’s birth to a child’s eighteenth birthday, for families who are experiencing a severe disruptive crisis, such as domestic violence, parental stress, home crisis/homelessness, legal issues, family medical problem, mental health issues, substance use/abuse, public support/services, job/school issues, or family instability. The Night’s Shield Crisis Shelter provides intervention, community based resource referrals, and support to families for their re-stabilization and empowerment.
Children receive 24-hour quality crisis care for two to 72 hours, depending on the needs and goals of the family. Longer care plans may be developed at the discretion of the Executive Director in such cases involving substance abuse and mental health crisis.
The center is located at 301 East Garland in West Frankfort. If you would turn at south at the stoplights on Emma or Jefferson Streets from Main, and go south, you would run right into the center. It is a former nursing home facility.
For more information, please give them a call at 618-932-6400. You can visit their website at http://thenightsshield.org .
You can also visit their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/thenightsshield/
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