CHILD, Inc.

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CHILD, Inc. has been serving the Delaware community since 1963. Our mission is to be the leading advocate for Delaware’s children. Through our prevention, intervention, and treatment programs, CHILD, Inc. strives to positively impact the children and families we serve to enable them to live fulfilling lives free from violence. Our programs meet the changing needs of families.

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Every Child Deserves to Feel Safe. Every Family Deserves Hope.

For more than 60 years, CHILD, Inc. has stood beside Delaware’s most vulnerable children and families — offering safety in moments of crisis, stability in times of uncertainty, and hope when it’s needed most.

When a child has nowhere safe to sleep…
When a teen is fleeing abuse…
When a parent is trying to break the cycle of violence…

CHILD, Inc. is there.

Through emergency shelter, foster care, domestic violence services, supervised visitation, counseling, and prevention programs, CHILD, Inc. provides life-changing support to thousands of children and families across Delaware each year. We don’t just respond to crisis — we walk alongside families as they rebuild, heal, and create brighter futures.

Behind every service is a child who deserves to feel protected.
Behind every hotline call is a parent searching for safety.
Behind every donation is the power to change a life.

Why Your Gift Matters on Do More 24

Do More 24 is about coming together as a community to make a lasting impact in just 24 hours. Your generosity helps CHILD, Inc.:

- Provide emergency shelter for youth with nowhere else to turn
- Support survivors of domestic violence and their children
- Strengthen families through counseling and parenting programs
- Ensure children in foster care receive stability, advocacy, and compassion
- Keep critical 24/7 crisis hotlines available for those in immediate need

Every dollar makes a difference. Every gift creates safety. Every act of kindness builds hope.

Be the Difference Today. A single day of giving can transform a lifetime. Join us during Do More 24 and stand with Delaware’s children and families. Your donation — whether $25, $100, or more — directly supports programs that protect children, prevent abuse, and empower families to thrive.

Together, we can ensure that every child in our community grows up safe, supported, and surrounded by opportunity.

💚 Give today. Protect a child. Strengthen a family. Change a future.

About CHILD Inc.

CHILD, Inc. is committed to helping solve the problems associated with domestic violence and child maltreatment through its community-based programs, safety planning with clients, including assistance with protection from abuse petition filings, and shelter services for children and families.

We provide 24-hour hotline services and emergency shelter to victims of domestic violence and their children at two shelter locations in New Castle County, Delaware. We also provide housing services for families exiting our shelters to ensure they have safe, stable, and permanent housing.

Our youth emergency shelter, 24-hour runaway hotline and emergency beds for runaway youth, and foster care program provide children and teens with safety, age-appropriate programming and case management in a home environment. We provide advocacy to ensure that youth receive services from state agencies, schools, and community organizations to meet their needs. Through our runaway prevention workshops and anger management for youth sessions, we provide children/youth with information/resources, strategies, and tools to keep them safe.

For over 25 years, we have operated a community-based family resource center and provided services for children/youth in the high needs community of Sparrow Run in New Castle County.

Parenting education classes and workshops are offered statewide to parent/caregivers of children from birth through teenage years. We offer specialized parenting programs for families who are in recovery from substance use, and for parents who are divorcing/separating including those who have experienced intimate partner violence in their relationships. We also offer clinical services to parents who are separating to assist with their co-parenting skills.

CHILD, Inc. offers clinical treatment services to all members of families affected by domestic violence. We offer domestic violence offender intervention programming to those who perpetrate intimate partner violence, we offer treatment for victims of domestic violence, and specialized treatment for children who have been victims or witnesses to domestic violence in their homes.

Through our Family Visitation Center, Community Health Workers, and Domestic Violence Court Advocacy programs, CHILD, Inc. supports survivors of domestic violence in the community.

As active participants on dozens of task forces, committees and planning groups, CHILD, Inc. is viewed as an integral part of Delaware's social service community.

Organization Details

Name:
CHILD Inc.

EIN: 510101188

Street Address:
507 Philadelphia Pike

City: Wilmington

State: DE Zip: 19809

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Website:
https://www.childinc.com/

Counties Served: New Castle, Kent, Sussex

Office Locations: Wilmington, Dover, Newark, Georgetown

Sectors: Community Advocacy, Crime & Legal Related, Education, Emergency Response, Homelessness & Housing, Human Services, Kids, Youth Development

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