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Your submission at Articles for creation: Children's Hope Residential Services (May 10)

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Robert McClenon (talk) 18:03, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Children's Hope Residential Services

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Children's Hope Residential Services, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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May 2018

Hello, Anileodati. Thank you for helping to build Wikipedia-- the world's largest free content encyclopedia. I'm sorry, but  Draft:Children's Hope Residential Services has been deleted as meeting WP:CSD#G11. "This applies to pages that are exclusively promotional and would need to be fundamentally rewritten to conform with Wikipedia:NOTFORPROMOTION." These must be rewritten from scratch from "reliable, third party sources unconnected to the subject." See WP:RS.

Wikipedia:Identifying blatant advertising#Typical signs of blatant advertising contains information about content to avoid. For more information on content that may be perceived as promotional, click User:Dlohcierekim/promo. These are just rough guides. Pages can avoid all those pitfalls and still be glaringly obvious ad copy. Sometimes pages meeting WP:CSD#G11 give the appearance of an editor violating Wikipedia:Conflict of interest or WP:PAID. Please read and heed them if they apply to you. Please read Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations.

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There is more information at Wikipedia:Community portal. There is help available at THE TEAHOUSE. Cheers, and happy editing. -- Dlohcierekim (talk) 18:23, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Hello Dlohcierekim, Children's Hope doesn't do advertising. We are a not for profit that works with the government to END CHILD ABUSE. Let me repeat. WE ARE A NON-PROFIT, government funded-agency. I would be glad to toss in the names of the other agencies that share our mission. The purpose was to spread the word about available treatment for children that have experienced trauma. I assume you understand what Non-profit means. I am not trying to be snide. I have plenty of statistics and research I can cite on the need for government-funded non-profit, community driven treatment centers. Surely, Wikipedia isn't against caring for abused and neglected children? I will gladly provide our Tax ID or any other certification to prove we are government funded. We provide treatment and then try to find foster and adoption homes for children in Texas working with Health and Human Services and the Department of Family and Protective Services. There is a shortage of homes for these children. That is a fact, but when laypeople read statistics they generally turn away. They want the narrative, not the research.

Here's the research: Child Maltreatment is a country-wide epidemic in the United States. According to the Fourth National Incidence Study (Sedlak et al., 2009-1010), when harm was used as a criterion for maltreatment, an estimated 1,256,600 children had experienced abuse or neglect. “This corresponds to one child in every 58 in the United States. A large percentage (44%, or an estimated total of 553,300) were abused, while most (61%, or an estimated total of 771,700) were neglected (p.7).” When the study looked at endangerment as the criterion for maltreatment, the number went up to 2,905,800. That is on child in every 25 children experiencing maltreatment. According to the Department of Family and Protective Services Website (https:www.dfps/state/tx/us/PCS/Residential_Contracts?Rates?default.asp) the cost of a child in care can range from 48.47 to 400.72 per diem, depending on the type of placement and the child’s level of care and this does not include activities that most children take for granted, such as being on a soccer team, going to the movies, visiting the museum, etc. Even more than the cost of care for a child, Fang et al. (2012) estimate that the cost of nonfatal child abuses and neglect over the lifetime is $210,012 including $36,648 in healthcare, $10,530 in medical care as an adult, $144,360 in lost productivity, $7,728 for child welfare, $6,747 for criminal justice, and $7,999 for special education. They estimate the cost per death at $1,272,900. Given the high number of children experiencing maltreatment and the extreme immediate and lifetime costs, it is important to understand the impact of these experiences. Hansen, Conway, & Christopher (1990) showed that abused and neglected children tend to have academic and intellectual delays. Currie and Widom (2010) found that adults who had experienced abuse/neglect as children tended to get less education than their non-abused counterparts, had lower IQ scores, and were less likely to own a car, a home, or have a bank account. Gould et al. (2012) found that abuse altered some forms of memory such as visual, executive functioning, and spatial. In addition to intellectual, neurocognitive, and economic lags, negative outcomes include obesity (Bentley & Widom, 2009), substance abuse (Lansford et al., 2010), and binge drinking (Shin, Edwards, & Heeran, 2009). Children who are abused and neglected have a greater likelihood of suffering from depression, anxiety, have a high risk of substance abuse, and are generally poorer in health (Herrenkohl et al., 2013). Barth (2009) describe several parental behaviors that have been linked to child abuse and neglect: substance abuse, mental illness, domestic violence, and child conduct disorder. He goes on to explain that parents with substance abuse issues experience more stress from their children’s externalizing behaviors. He states that “Mothers who improve their parenting skills also show significant reductions in depression. And the lifting in depression contributes significantly to improved parenting and child conduct. Guterman, Lee, Taylor, and Rathouz (2009) found that the single strongest predictor of child abuses and neglect was parental stress.

Organizations like Children's Hope provide Community Based Outreach, funded by the Federal and State government to provide treatment, foster, and adoption homes for abused and neglected children. They also provide opportunities for families to get help, such as parenting classes, counseling, and in-home visits to help keep the family intact. Families need to know that these resources are available for them and their children. Potential foster and adoption families need to know who they can contact if they want to get involved. It's not easy information to find.

Thank you, Anileodati