Client Spotlight - Children's Home of Stockton

This month, the Harrington Group’s Client Spotlight is focusing on The Children’s Home of Stockton. The Children’s Home of Stockton got its start in 1882 when a group of women formed the Ladies Aide Society of Stockton,  their goal was to provide charitable services to the community of stockton. One year later, the Ladies Aide had their first big accomplishment, opening up a children’s home in a rented house. From there, the Children’s Home evolved, going through its first major period of change between 1908 and 1912 when there were enough funds raised to begin building a permanent structure for the home. Funds were raised, doubled by a philanthropist, an architect was hired and a home was built that could house up to 100 children. The home evolved more over the years, it expanded to include the behaviorally and emotionally challenged youth, and added an annex to make room for older children and teens that needed housing. In 1995, the home underwent its second biggest transitional period, with a huge fund raising campaign and the building of new facilities.



Today, the Children’s Home mission statement is “To give at-risk youth a chance for a productive life through treatment and education in a safe nurturing environment.” Guided by this mission statement, the Children’s Home offers services to children and their families in need regardless of their age or race.

The programs offered through the Children’s Home are Educational services in a K-12 non-public school setting and professional counseling in a residential treatment setting addressing child and adolescent needs and problems, i.e. depression, bereavement, anxiety, child abuse, sexual abuse and sexual concerns, other interpersonal problems, individual adjustments, family problems, parent/child conflicts, mental illness, social, vocational and independent living skills and other individual and family needs.

The Children’s Home offers Vocational and Emancipation Services where they provide assistance and training in a number of areas to help to prepare the teens with the skills necessary to get a job and live life on their own without additional assistance. The Home also offers Recreation Therapy where they offer a wide variety of recreational activities to the children in an attempt to offer recreational therapy teaching the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle. In addition to the other services, the Home also offers Health Care and Nutritional Services, each child undergoes a physical assessment when they come to the Home and their health issues are managed and maintained until they leave.

Harrington Group is proud of the work and care that the Children’s Home of Stockton provides for the youth in need of their community. We are happy that we get the opportunity to work with the Children’s Home and play a small roll in all the good that they do.