Rotary Centennial Moment - Children's Receiving Home of Sacramento

Near the top of anyone’s list of the greatest moments in the history of the Sacramento Rotary Club would have to include the Club’s role in founding and supporting the Children’s Receiving Home of Sacramento.  Sharing this Centennial Moment is our very own Tanya Kravchuk, Resource Development Coordinator of the Children’s Receiving Home of Sacramento.

The Children’s Receiving Home was founded in 1944 through a cooperative effort of the Junior League of Sacramento and our very own Rotary Club of Sacramento.  Its mission is and has always been “to change the lives of abused and neglected children and their families by providing a safe haven of comfort, hope and healing.”  The children who reside at the Receiving Home have been abused, molested, neglected, abandoned, or have families who have been otherwise unable to provide for them.  Our kids are between the ages of 1 and 17, with some services to young adults 18 and over, and we serve between 1,200 and 1,800 children a year at our facility at Watt and Auburn.
Even though we are 68 years old this year we continue to grow, change and adapt to be responsive to the changing needs of our community to provide even better services to the at-risk children of our community.  These programs include a girls assessment center, a mental health program, a California State pilot program for residentially based services, an independent living program for youth ageing out of foster care, and a follow up and aftercare component that works with children and families in the community to ensure that they are fully supported after care with us is completed.

This facility, open 24 hours and 7 days a week ever since you built us in 1944, is a true reflection of the Rotary spirit and of its guiding principle of service above self.  With your help tens of thousands of children and families have been helped, and continue to be helped, during what is often the most difficult time of their lives.
 
At the Receiving Home, you made, and continue to make, a critical difference.  You may not always get the full thanks you deserve for your courageous effort that began in 1944 and continues to this day, but as Rotarians, you should be extremely proud of what you have done.  All in all, the Sacramento Rotary Club’s support of the Children’s Receiving Home of Sacramento over the past 70 years is rightfully counted as one of its proudest accomplishments.