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In response to God's intent, Brooklawn provides comprehensive care, treatment, and education, restoring hope to emotionally troubled children and families.

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Introduction


Responding to a pressing need for treatment options for severely traumatized children and youth, Brooklawn has experienced tremendous growth in recent years. Since 2000, Brooklawn’s average residential census has increased from 65 to107 children per day, and hundreds more are served each year through community-based services. To adequately care for these children and youth, Brooklawn now faces three strategic challenges:

• Creating sufficient placements for children and youth completing the campus based treatment program, and unable to return to their family;

• Opening Kentucky’s first intense treatment program for young girls, and creating a separate part of the campus for the younger children,

• Replacing, remodeling and/or equipping the older facilities on Brooklawn’s campus, while providing adequate space for new programs.

Founded as an orphanage in 1851, Brooklawn adopted its current mission in 1991 to provide comprehensive care, treatment, and education for children and youth with serious emotional disturbances. Since that time, Brooklawn has grown to become one of the leading providers of residential and community-based child welfare and mental health services in the state. Approximately 70% of the children served come from outside Jefferson County, representing over 90 of Kentucky’s 120 counties. Over 80% of the children are wards of the state.

Brooklawn is an independent, non-profit, corporation with a self perpetuating Board of Trustees. It is fully accredited by the Council on Accreditation, and is historically related to the United Church of Christ. Its spacious 26-acre campus contains ten residences, a school, gymnasium and numerous outdoor recreational facilities.

Societal Ills

In Kentucky, during the past five years, the number of children and youth placed in out-of-home care due to abuse, neglect and abandonment has increased over 40%, growing from approximately 5,000 children per day to over 7,000. These children typically come from families devastated by addiction, dysfunction, and poverty.

Related to this, there has also been a significant increase in the number of children and youth placed in psychiatric hospitals due to behavioral and emotional problems often related to the trauma of abuse and neglect. Referrals to Brooklawn from state agencies and private practitioners increased a phenomenal 80%, from 406 in 2004 to 732 children in 2006. This reflects both Brooklawn’s excellent reputation and the demand for the services provided for this needy group of children.
Programs and Services

Brooklawn’s residential programs currently serve boys from 5 to 18 years of age whose emotional and behavioral problems are so severe that out-patient services will not suffice. These children have been seriously traumatized by abuse, neglect, or other family crisis situations including caregiver’s chemical dependency, domestic violence, or parental mental illness. These children are, at times, dangerous to themselves or others, and may exhibit violence/aggression, suicidal feelings/activity, sexual acting-out, substance abuse, and/or learning disabilities. Prior to coming to Brooklawn, most children have experienced multiple moves through shelters, foster homes, psychiatric hospitals, and other treatment settings. Some have had the added trauma of adoption failure. These children and youth require stabilization and intensive treatment so they may function successfully in a home setting and traditional school.

Brooklawn provides highly monitored specialized treatment using an interdisciplinary systems-based approach. In addition to individual, group and family therapy, Brooklawn’s holistic approach includes music lessons, equine therapy, gardening, art, sports, recreation, and cultural diversity. The Brooklawn School, a special education component operated in collaboration with Jefferson County Public Schools, includes vocational education in horticulture, auto mechanics, and computer technology. Volunteers and mentors provide the boys with tutoring, outings, parties, and one-on-one attention. While the average length of stay is twelve months, some of the residents have been at Brooklawn for three or four years.

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