TVN-Knox County Receives Grant for Furniture

MOUNT VERNON - The Village Network-Knox County (TVN) recently received $9,200 from The Community Foundation of Mount Vernon & Knox County. The grant is for bedroom and common living area furniture for its residential facility, Children's Resource Center (CRC) on Coshocton Road, Mount Vernon.

The Mount Vernon TVN location is the result of a partnership with the Knox County Department of Job and Family Services (KCJFS). CRC is co-educational residential program for 20 youth with emotional and behavior challenges. It also houses transitional living space for older adolescents. Other services include day treatment, treatment foster care, respite care and crisis assessment services.

"The Foundation is pleased to help create a living environment more conducive to the healing of at-risk children entrusted to the care of The Village Network," said Sam Barone, executive director at the Foundation.

The recent grant emphasizes the Foundation's message of improving the lives area youth, according to Barone.

To date, over 230 of Knox County's most vulnerable youth have received direct services through TVN-Knox County. The staff also provides outpatient and in-home mental health services through KCJFS and 24/7 emergency admission and respite care for children in crisis. Knox County youth may receive services inside other TVN locations depending on their personalized needs.

TVN has operated inside the county for over 10 years and is on the forefront of the evidence-based practice of Trauma Informed Care (TIC). TIC focuses on past traumas in a child's life that result in current behavioral issues. The practice is credited with reducing restraints and critical instances. The TVN staff present at state conferences and provide TIC training sessions to other local non-profit child-caring agencies in the county.

TVN-Knox County is one of 11 TVN facilities. TVN has an award-winning history working with troubled and traumatized boys and girls. Other locations are in Akron, Canton, Cleveland, Columbus, Delaware, Lorain, Newark, Uhrichsville and Wooster. For more information and ways you can help, visit http://www.thevillagenetwork.org/.