The Henry & William Evans Home for Children provides a loving, nurturing home for children who are homeless or in a family crisis. This is a home where children who are in desperate circumstances are given a chance to not only be safe and secure, but to thrive in all that life has to offer.
Since 1949, the Evans Home has welcomed more than 500 children, under a variety of circumstances, and positively affected their lives - and in turn their communities. Our children attend public schools, participate in athletics and other extra-curricular activities as well as take care of their own house pets.
Through the generosity of our community giving, they are able to attend summer camps and many are able to receive orthodontic braces, enjoy ball games, bowling, movies and other community activities as any normal child would enjoy. Most of all, these children carry forward this environment of love, care and personal responsibility into productive and family-oriented adulthood.
The Evans Home is a one-story brick ranch style building situated within a quiet residential neighborhood. The building includes offices for the administrative staff as well as private living quarters for houseparents. The Home has two wings (one for boys, one for girls), a dining room, living room, library/study hall and a computer lab.
Expansion during the past year delivered the promise of a private bedroom for every child and a spacious recreation room that accommodates everything from birthday parties to exercise groups to weekly house-meetings. Outside are basketball courts, playground equipment, and separate "clubhouses" for boys and girls, all within a sweeping, tree bordered yard with room enough for a small garden, the kids' Easter morning egg hunt (we prefer surprises and prizes in plastic eggs to the real thing) and those summertime games of flashlight tag.
