San Diego Rescue Mission Receives $25,000 Grant
The San Diego Rescue Mission has announced the award of $25,000 from The San Diego Foundation as part of the Foundation’s COVID-19 Community Response Fund. The funds will be used to prevent child abuse in children experiencing homelessness, through the San Diego Rescue Mission’s Children’s Center Preschool program.
Children experiencing homelessness face unthinkable challenges: health problems, tendency for delays in development, emotional distress, and more. The San Diego Rescue Mission provides the county’s only free, private licensed preschool for children experiencing homelessness. The goal of the project will be to provide person-centered, strength-based intervention tools to prevent child abuse in children and families. When families are surrounded by a community that cares, child abuse can not only be prevented, but families and homes can be healed and restored.
“We’re deeply blessed to be recognized by The San Diego Foundation on behalf of regional and community leaders,” said Donnie Dee, CEO of the San Diego Rescue Mission. “Through this project, we aim to lift the barriers that prevent low-income families from receiving high quality education services.”
Founded in 1955, San?Diego?Rescue?Mission?is a faith-based organization that offers safe-haven as well as restorative care and rehabilitation services to those in our community seeking to recover from experiencing: homelessness, addiction, abuse and poverty. For additional?information about the?San?Diego?Rescue?Mission, please visit?www.sdrescue.org.??
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