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Cumberland Children’s Center, better known as the “House of Hope,” is a short-term care facility providing care and services for drug-endangered, abused, and at-risk children of Cumberland County and other nearby Tennessee counties. These children have fallen victim to physical, emotional, environmental, and sexual abuse as well as being exposed to drugs. A large percentage of children brought to the House of Hope results primarily from their parents’ illegal drug use.
The House of Hope is also dedicated to assist law enforcement and child welfare agencies of the State of Tennessee, as well as to educate and inform the public on how to recognize, prevent, protect, and provide aid to children who have become victims of child abuse, neglect, drug endangerment, and any other collateral activity affecting the welfare, health, safety, and protection of children.
Our additional programs are created from needs in the community brought to our attention. We will continue to pursue ways to enhance the lives of children and families.
House of Hope was created to provide a safe, comfortable temporary home like setting for TN children during a time of crisis after abuse has occurred. These children often suffer abuse in the forms of drug endangerment, physical, sexual, emotional, environmental, educational & medical.
To assist the Department of Children’s Services and other child welfare and law enforcement agencies of the state of Tennessee in order to reduce trauma, prevent, protect, and provide aid to children who have become victims of child abuse and neglect, and any other collateral activity affecting the welfare, health, safety, and protection of children.
To continue to offer services and education specifically tailored to meet the ever-changing needs of families and children in collaboration with other agencies and organizations in our community so we may provide the best possible outcome in order reduce childhood trauma and stop the cycle of generational abuse and neglect.
House of Hope was created to provide a safe, comfortable temporary home like setting for TN children during a time of crisis after abuse has occurred. These children often suffer abuse in the forms of drug endangerment, physical, sexual, emotional, environmental, educational & medical.
To assist the Department of Children’s Services and other child welfare and law enforcement agencies of the state of Tennessee in order to reduce trauma, prevent, protect, and provide aid to children who have become victims of child abuse and neglect, and any other collateral activity affecting the welfare, health, safety, and protection of children.
To continue to offer services and education specifically tailored to meet the ever-changing needs of families and children in collaboration with other agencies and organizations in our community so we may provide the best possible outcome in order reduce childhood trauma and stop the cycle of generational abuse and neglect.
The History of House of Hope
House of Hope was created in 2004 when our county (Cumberland County, TN) was experiencing the creation of methamphetamine. As this drug took hold of individuals the families and children suffered.
Meth labs in the home started popping up and with arrest it became evident we were dealing with something we had never experienced before. Children were coming into the custody of the Department of Children’s Services in record numbers due to drug endangerment.
Children were being exposed to toxic chemicals and neglect was rampant. As the number of cases continued to rise no place was available to take the children while waiting for placement except the jail.
The late Sheriff Butch Burgess set out to create a safe haven where the Department of Children’s Services could take children while waiting on placement with a relative or in foster care and House of Hope was born.
As meth labs decreased, use of the drug did not and other illegal drugs such as heroin and fentanyl came on the scene. Drug endangerment attributes to 85 % of child abuse cases in the Upper Cumberland Region of Tennessee. For 14 years we were the only such home in the entire Nation. As other areas see the need to reduce trauma during tragic events children experience, other counties in Tennessee and other states are creating their own version of safe haven homes.
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Our Reach
We serve thousands of Children across tennessee
Below is the list of Tennessee Counties we serve at the Cumberland Children’s Center, House of Hope in Crossville, TN.
Cumberland, Clay, Pickett, Overton, Putnam, Dekalb, White, Warren, VanBuren, Bledsoe, Rhea, Hamilton, Marion, Franklin, Grundy, and Sequatchie Counties.
No matter the circumstance, we are here to help.
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