Local Non-Profit Awarded $29K Grant

Davis House Child Advocacy Center

Davis House Child Advocacy Center recently received a grant from The Baptist Healing Trust, which awarded funds totaling over $1.2 Million in its most recent grant cycle.  “We are proud to help support 31 local non-profits working to create access to quality, compassionate health services for the community’s most vulnerable residents,” said President & CEO Dr. Cathy Self.  The mission of the Baptist Healing Trust, a private grant making foundation, is the sacred work of fostering healing and wholeness for vulnerable populations through strategic investing, philanthropy, and advocacy.

Davis House Child Advocacy Center’s grant award was $29,500 and will partially fund their Counseling Program. This program provides age and symptom appropriate mental health counseling to children who are suffering from trauma caused by sexual and/or severe physical abuse. Child victims meet with Kelly Stephens, Clinical Therapist for Davis House, for evaluation of symptoms, creation of a treatment plan, and counseling sessions.

Davis House Child Advocacy Center combats child abuse by coordinating investigative and healing services to children and their families in crisis and providing community education focused on prevention and early intervention. The Center serves Williamson, Hickman, Lewis, and Perry counties. For additional information about Davis House Child Advocacy Center and the services provided, please visit www.davishousecac.org or call Sarah Mickle, Marketing & Community Outreach Coordinator, at 615-790-5900 x104. To report instances of known or suspected child abuse, please call the child abuse hotline at 877-237-0004.

Recipients of the contributions include non-profit organizations from 40 counties in Middle Tennessee that focus on physical health, mental health, recovery from alcohol and drug abuse or healing from abuse, neglect, and violence.  This year’s grants bring the collective grant making of the Baptist Healing Trust to over $68 million since 2002.  The Baptist Healing Trust was created when Baptist Hospital in Nashville sold to St. Thomas Health Services, a ministry of Ascension Health in St. Louis, Missouri.