We’ve come up with 47 reasons to support Millhill … one for every year we’ve been supporting the children and families of Greater Trenton!
- Millhill helps more than 5,000 families in Greater Trenton improve their quality of life through programs that educate, empower, and transform.
- We offer individual, family, and group counseling with high success rates for school and home, behavioral, emotional, and cognitive needs.
- We tripled the number of children, adolescents, and families that receive our counseling services in a single year.
- “All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and somebody who believes in them.” –Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson
- Every single Millhill PEER Educator has graduated from high school on time and gone on to higher education programs.
- “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” –Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Children who attend the Millhill Preschool Program perform better on standardized testing through the fourth grade.
- Summer is a time when students traditionally drop one to three reading levels but 100% of the children who attend Camp RISE, Millhill’s Summer Literacy Camp, either maintain or improve their reading level.
- We collaborate with organizations in the Trenton area through our Trenton Area Stakeholders program to assure that solutions are reached in a holistic way.
- Our Health Literacy Program helps families gain access and overcome barriers to health care as well as teaching children and parents about healthy food choices and proper portion sizes.
- “If we are ever to have real peace in this world we shall have to begin with the children.” –Mohandas K. Gandhi
- Our Individual, family, and group counseling services are provided by licensed therapists; they are comprehensive and immediately available.
- 87% of youth in Millhill’s outpatient counseling show improvement in school functioning, as measured by teacher reports and report cards.
- Children who receive Millhill Out-of-Home Placement Support, a program that supports foster children and their foster and relative caregivers, learn to build trust and improve overall socialization skills.
- We provide family support services on-site and in the home for healthier living.
- Children who received developmental testing through Millhill Medical Home Link are more likely to succeed in Kindergarten.
- The Trenton PEERS reach almost 3,000 adolescents per year with their presentations about issues that teens in the Trenton area face every day such as gang awareness, violence prevention, postponing sexual involvement, substance abuse, and bullying.
- “In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic.” –Graça Machel-Mandela
- Children who receive Therapeutic Intervention—a program that focuses on fostering age-appropriate play and social skills while developing self-control, frustration tolerance, and resilience—showed marked improvement when dealing with emotional challenges after six months of intervention.
- Millhill PEER Educators consistently report that participation in the PEERS program has prepared them for a more positive future.
- Millhill’s services are integrated; each one building upon another to form a tightly woven safety net for families.
- 90% of your donation goes directly to programming.
- With the support of the Millhill Trenton PEERS, Magdalena Stankowska started her studies at Princeton University this fall on a full scholarship.
- 92% of youth in Millhill’s outpatient counseling show improvement in emotional, cognitive, and behavioral functioning as reported by parents and school.
- “Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.” ― Ben Carson
- 90% of parents with children in outpatient counseling report that school attendance is no longer a problem.
- 100% of all families attending Millhill’s parenting and life skills group showed marked improvements in parenting techniques, organization at home, and budgeting household finances.
- A five-year-old who initially scored in the first percentile during developmental testing in November 2013 shot up 48 percentage points when retested in May 2014 after attending Millhill’s preschool program.
- 98% of youth who have been abused or neglected reported that the abuse and neglect stopped after participating in Millhill’s counseling services with their families.
- We have been providing services to Trenton area families for 44 years.
- Millhill children are learning about nature and the importance of nutrition from an early age through the Millhill garden project.
- 99% of the families enrolled in Millhill’s Family Assessment and Support Program had a decrease in calls to the Child Abuse Hotline.
- 87% of parents in our family support program reached the goals they set with their social worker through the creating and using family development plans.
- 100% of children who were placed in foster care were able to return home after the Out of Home Placement support program helped parents learned how to maintain a proper home environment and provided children with tools to cope with the transition.
- “If we don’t stand up for children, then we don’t stand for much.” –Marian Wright Edelman
- We help individuals and families harness both external resources and their own specific strengths to trigger long-term change in circumstance, attitude, knowledge, and behavior while providing specific immediate benefits to the community.
- We empower children and families through individualized and culturally sensitive educational and behavioral health services to transform our under-resourced community.
- Our approach is both individualized and collaborative taking into account the dynamics of the whole family.
- Families who use Millhill’s Counseling Services consistently report behavioral improvements in their children.
- We transform lives family by family.
- The Millhill Early Education Program was one of the first—and is one of the few—child development centers in the Trenton area that has earned accreditation by the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
- “Education is the way to move mountains, to build bridges, to change the world. Education is the path to the future. I believe that education is indeed freedom.” –Oprah Winfrey
- Our new counseling center opened in August 2015 and will double our capacity to provide behavioral health services.
- “Millhill is tackling head on the critically growing issue of mental illness.” Brian Hughes, Mercer County Executive
- We invite you to find your own reason by joining us for A Day of Caring, a volunteer opportunity where you can spend the morning laughing, learning, and playing with our preschoolers. It will allow you see what we do first hand.
- Through our Youth Services we promote positive youth outcomes, civic engagement and leadership development.
- Millhill helps reduce the stigma of mental health.
For more information call (609) 989-7333 x123 or email info@millhillcenter.org.
