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Tennessee Children’s Home is a residential care facility for children and former orphanage in Spring Hill, Tennessee, United States. ==History== In 1909, Tennessee Orphan Home began in Columbia, Tennessee, to meet the needs of the three Scotten children who were tragically orphaned. In 1934 the Church of Christ Tennessee Orphan Home bought the Branham and Hughes Military, and the next year the orphanage was moved to Spring Hill from Columbia. Since 1909, over 16,000 children have been cared for at the Home. As with many of the old orphanages, the Home was designed as an institutional facility with central dining, central laundry, dormitory living and a small farming operation. The approach to child care was to provide the basic physical needs of children and to offer Christian instruction. The 1980s were a period of stable growth. We made many improvements in both programs and services offered. The number of children served grew throughout the decade. In late 1982, the name of the Home was changed to Tennessee Children’s Home. The institutional approach was replaced with family oriented group homes for the children. Dormitories were remodeled into single family homes, with a maximum of eight children in each home. Central dining was replaced with family meals in the group homes. The family groups now individually carry on most activities like home devotionals, church attendance, housekeeping, laundry, cooking and cleanup. In 1988, the Home increased the number of children served under its direction merging with West Tennessee Children’s Home. Continued growth in its service area occurred again in 2000 and 2001 through mergers with Happy Hills Youth Ranch near Ashland City, Tennessee and East Tennessee Christian Services in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Home has seen a change in the type of child needing our help in the past few years. In addition to orphaned children, it now receives abused and neglected youth that are struggling with their values and their relationships with other people. These problems may be emotional, social, behavioral, educational or psychological. The services the Home now offers are designed to be flexible so each child is treated as an individual with unique needs. An unrelated organization with a similar name, the Tennessee Children's Home Society run by Georgia Tann, was involved in a baby-selling adoption scandal. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tennessee Children's Home」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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