QUICK FACTS

• In Brown County and the six surrounding counties 1,413 children were victims of abuse or neglect and 488 of these kids were made wards in 2002.
  
  
  
• The use of the highly addictive drug, Methamphetemine, among parents is devastating families and increasing the number of children who are removed from their homes by child welfare officials. More than 100 children were taken from their parents in 2004 in Indiana during meth lab busts. The epidemic has created an even greater need for homes in which children can be cared for, loved, and nurtured.
  
  
• New Song is a multi-denominational, Christian 501©(3) organization that will offer loving, lifelong homes and a private education in a beautiful neighborhood to children whose parents cannot care for them due to the parents’ physical, economical, emotional or other difficulties. Most of the kids that we will care for will be children who are victims of abuse and neglect.
  
  
• Children will come to New Song in 2nd to 6th grade and will be offered care and guidance until high school graduation, with their parent’s permission. Parents will be encouraged to maintain good relationship with kids while they are in our care through phone calls, letters and home visits, when appropriate.
  
  
• New Song will not accept kids placed by the court (with rare exceptions such as for children who have been abandoned); parents will place kids into our care. 
  
  
• New Song will work with educators, pastors, community groups, child welfare workers, and others who may refer parents to New Song as a place that offers hope and opportunity for their children.
  
  
• The New Song model was developed through researching successful children’s organizations in different parts of the country including Cookson Hills in Oklahoma, Wear Valley Ranch in Tennessee, Eagle Ranch in Georgia, and Mountain Mission School in Virginia.
  
  
• New Song is a privately funded 501©(3) non-profit educational organization and accepts donations from individuals, churches, businesses, and foundations.
  
  
• New Song is administered by a board of directors and advisory council. Nearly fortypastors from six denominations and nearly 20 independent churches have endorsed the New Song vision and leadership.
  
  
• New Song’s Executive Director, Bob Schloss, learned about the plight of hurting children through 15 years of service as a lawyer, deputy prosecuting attorney, youth ministry leader, and, most recently, serving as a senior-level administrator in a wonderful children’s home in northern Indiana. Bob and his wife, Lisa, who has a masters degree in social work, have been married for 22 years, actively fostered children for seven years, and have four great boys: Nathan, age 17; Scott, 15; Thomas, 13; and James, 11.