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| When Jerry was five, he saw his father murder his mother. Martin was locked in a closet for weekends at a time while his father went on drinking binges. Jasmine is blind in one eye as a result of a beating at the hands of her mother for spilling a glass of milk. Carlye has small round scars on her hands, feet & face, inflicted by her sexually abusive step-father, a smoker. |
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As human beings, these stories shock & disgust us. As parents, we find them incomprehensible. And as members of our community, we believe they happen somewhere else. But the truth of the matter is, child abuse is on the rise in our country, as well as right here in Dane County. The unspeakable happens every day to children all around us.
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Help Rainbow break the cycle.
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Witnessing & experiencing violence between family members
can have a devastating effect on a child’s emotional development. They learn to
fear, not trust. They confuse love with anger & aggression. And often they
come to believe that they deserve to be treated as less than human. And if left
untreated, the cost to our society & our children is staggering.
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| But the good news is, there is hope. Children can be healed. Families can be restored. The cycle can be broken. | |||
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Early intervention offers hopeful
outcomes.
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| The key is to intervene as early as possible.
The emotional & intellectual poverty that these children have been living in must be
replaced with a trusting & loving environment. At Rainbow Project, the goal is
to help reconstruct families, to create a safe & nurturing home life. To break
the cycle.
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| Rainbow specializes in restoring the childhood of infants & children up to ten years of age. Rainbow clinicians provide prevention, comprehensive assessment, treatment, evaluation & follow-up services. Services for parents include individual & family counseling, parent education & support group sessions. They provide a "corrective emotional experience," fostering feelings of trust & safety, which allows a healthy relationship with themselves & others to develop. | |
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Heal the family, heal the child.
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| Family is the context of a child’s life.
It is where he or
she has existed; where they should continue to exist. Working within this
structure is critical to the healing process, because the dynamic must change
for the child to heal. The family must learn, as a group, to create a healthy
environment. Children recovering from abuse need:
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BE PART OF THE ANSWER.
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This kind of change takes time & a lot of hard
work. Rainbow lives up to the challenge by offering extensive treatment options
to families in severe need. Treatment length varies, but can last up to 2-3 years, as opposed to many
other treatment options that may only last six months. This gives the family
time to truly change, & grow together, with therapists available to help them
through the rough spots.
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| Children can heal. Families can change. But help is critical. The Rainbow Project offers that help to children & families in Madison & Dane County, every day. And right now, Rainbow Project needs your help. |
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How can you help give back a childhood?
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| Rainbow Project needs your help to heal children like Jerry, Martin,
Jasmine & Carlye. Each year, Rainbow helps over 100 families in crisis.
But at
any given time, several families remain on a waiting list. And critical
moments slip away.
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| Your donation to Rainbow
Project means more children will be healed,
faster. Children once crippled by pain, violence, grief, anger, fear &
misunderstanding can slowly learn to grow. To laugh. To love.
And you’ll know
your hope & support helped them get there.
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| Please, donate today to Rainbow Project Child
& Family
Counseling & Resource Clinic. As a private, non-profit social service
& mental health agency, your gift is tax deductible. And your dollars will touch
the hearts of untold children, both current & future. Your help can change the
world.
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Jerry is now a happy eight-year-old. He & his brother are being raised in the loving home of their mother’s sister.
Martin’s father has been sober for 28 months. Martin has been living with him, happily, for the last 14 months.
Jasmine & her family have learned to address conflict in positive ways, without resorting to violence. They just celebrated their third year of good family health with their Rainbow Project counselors.
Carlye has become a peer counselor at her junior high school. She uses the communication & coping techniques she learned at Rainbow Project to help other children deal with stress.
