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Genesis Home, Mayfield, KY Residential Services for teenage girls, ages 12 to 17  Program Overview Genesis Home provides residential care for up to 15 adolescent girls who suffer emotional difficulties stemming from abuse or neglect. The facility is a 9,120 square-foot building located on five acres on Old Dublin Road in Graves County, about a 10-minute drive from Mayfield in southwestern Kentucky. The facility includes living and recreation areas, classrooms, and offices. It is a ministry of Sunrise Children's Services which provides residential, counseling, adoption, foster care, and independent living services throughout Kentucky. Founded in 1869, Sunrise is the largest private residential child care agency in Kentucky and the oldest Southern Baptist child care ministry. Sunrise is licensed by the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services. The Girls In Care Genesis Home serves girls, ages 12 to 17, who are in need of special therapeutic care. They typically come from backgrounds of severe abuse or neglect. The girls often have an attitude of defeat and hopelessness when they arrive. A common thread that runs through almost all of the situations is the abandonment -- either physical or emotional -- that the girls feel.How The Girls Are Helped Caring staff work with the girls through regular counseling sessions to help them build self esteem and confidence. The girls participate in intensive group work to enable them to begin the process of overcoming their pasts and taking control of their futures. Such a process teaches the girls to be accountable not only for their own conduct, but that they help themselves most when they reach out to the other girls in the group. The length of stay for the girls ranges from four to 12 months. The overall goal is for the girl to move from the Genesis Home to a stable living situation. This may be with her family, a foster family, or with caring staff at another Sunrise program such as Glen Dale Children's Home in Glendale. Genesis Home
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