Great Childhoods Begin With All of Us

Ever found yourself needing help, but you weren’t sure where to turn? At The Tree House, we want to make sure our community has all the resources. Whether you are a nonprofit, school, or just a concerned family member or friend, we want you to have all the help you can get. Our mission is to prevent child abuse through education. This starts with educating parents as well as children on different risks and dangers that are in the world. This week I wanted to take time to focu

When discussing what our next blog topic would be, we came across the idea of discussing Hispanic Culture. We want our supporters to know that Hispanic Culture is important to us and why. We decided to ask Katherine, our director of Clinical Services for her help! I wanted to keep Katherine's answers to the questions in her words, so I decided to write this blog in a question and answer form. What is your role at The Tree House, Inc.? I am the Director of Clinical Services at

It’s November and while everyone is getting ready to celebrate family and friends at Thanksgiving, The Tree House is getting ready to share our mission with family, friends, and the community during Giving Tuesday! For those of you who don’t know about Giving Tuesday, it is a global generosity movement. To understand why Giving Tuesday is so important to us, you have to imagine yourself as our client. Take yourself back to your childhood days as a playful seven year old. Now

When you walk through the doors of The Tree House you are greeted with a big smile, and warm voice. You meet Paige, our Office Manager here at our organization. Paige does many different things around our offices to help us operate at our very best for our clients. She works extremely hard and supports not only our clients but all of our staff as well. Any needs that anyone may have, Paige is always there to help. Paige has many different roles at The Tree House. According to

October is filled with so many exciting things. All things pumpkin spice, festivals, and Halloween, to all the excitement at The Tree House. This year we are having a fun, fall-themed, fundraiser. We are excited to kick off October with our “Stuff the Pumpkin” fundraiser! We wanted to start something fun that fit into the fall theme and was different. I wanted to dedicate a blog post to this new fundraiser so that our community could understand our ”why”. What better way to g

Imagine yourself as a child, you’re nine years old. For as long as you can remember it has always been just you and your mother. Life hasn’t always been easy as your mom is gone a lot, working two jobs so that you have a roof over your head and food on the table. In between working, you and your mom cook together, read together, and you help her around the house. One day your mom brings home a man, someone you have never met before. She tells you that this man is her boyfrien

Did you know that ONE in TEN children experience sexual abuse by their eighteen birthday? Child abuse is a difficult subject for anyone to talk about and often times, people don’t believe that it can happen to them, their relatives, friends, co-workers, or neighbors. But the truth is, that most people will know at least one person who has experienced child abuse. At The Tree House, our job is to talk about this difficult subject and to help children and families heal from chi

Our Forensic Services team is made up of some amazing people doing amazing work. Today we celebrate Heather, one of our outstanding Forensic Interviewers at The Tree House. Heather started her journey with us in August of 2015 as an intern. In sitting down with her she stated “I learned about forensic interviewing and child advocacy centers in my undergraduate program and was immediately drawn to the position”. Heather went on to get her Masters in Social Work and learned abo

September means something different for everyone. Many people begin to celebrate the end of a hot summer, college football, and pumpkin spice. For The Tree House, it means that we get to celebrate the first employee to ever reach 20 years of service, Ida Segars! What a huge accomplishment for Ida and we are so lucky to have such a hard-working and dedicated individual at our organization! To understand how special Ida is, let’s take a look at who she is outside of The Tree H

In our last blog post we focused on our Forensic Services program. This week, I thought what better way to follow up our previous post than to focus on our Director of Forensic Services, Jason Simpson! Jason began his journey with The Tree House in 2010 as an intern. After his internship ended he was offered a position in Family Services as the Coordinator for supervised visitation. Jason enjoyed helping with supervised visitation, but found he liked working more in an ever c

At The Tree House we offer many different services to help families and children heal from child abuse. In this post I will be highlighting our forensic team and the role they play at The Tree House. Our forensic team includes two forensic interviewers, Jason who is our Director of forensic services. Heather, who is a forensic interviewer, and our family advocate Christina. Our forensic interview team does a great job of making kids feel as comfortable as possible when talkin

Ever heard of The Power of 20? If you follow The Tree House Inc. on Facebook, Instagram, or have subscribed to our website you probably have. For those of you who are new to our site and social media, I’ll give you all the details you need to know. The Power of 20 is a donation campaign that began in 2016 in celebration of The Tree House Inc.’s 20th anniversary, and still continues today. When I read about this campaign it really stood out to me and the impact that it could h

My name is Brittany McClure, I am the Outreach Specialist for The Tree House. I started my position here three short weeks ago, and have loved every minute of it! I've always heard the expression that if you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life. Being with The Tree House, I've found that dream job where I love what I do and I have fun doing it. I realized throughout my career path that I love outreach and being in my community to make a difference. When I

Welcome to the first blog of The Tree House, Inc. My name is Brittany McClure and I am the Outreach Specialist at The Tree House. My role here is to provide community outreach and use social media to increase awareness on child abuse and ways that we can prevent it. When I first started at The Tree house I didn’t know much about the organization, except that they help children and families that have experienced abuse. My first day there I was given a scrapbook with all The Tr