Red Dot – Blue Pinwheel Art Sale & Social

Red Dot – Blue Pinwheel Art Sale & Social

Join us for a FREE night of wine, small bites and ART BUYING! Presented in conjunction with Child Abuse Prevention Month, Shelter, Inc. is partnering with The Empty Corner Gallery for this new event. We will be showcasing and selling original art and prints from...
Shelter’s 5K Run/Walk 4 Kidz

Shelter’s 5K Run/Walk 4 Kidz

Shelter’s 5K Run/Walk 4 Kidz is an annual event offered in conjunction with National Child Abuse Prevention month. Come out and show your support. This family-friendly event raises critical funds for Shelter’s programs. Click HERE to register.

News from the Trenches

Shelter’s Healthy Families abuse prevention program is for first-time parents with multiple challenges whose babies are birth through five. Normally, the program consists of intensive home visitations with goals of enhancing family functioning, promoting healthy child...

How to Calm the Perfect Storm

It’s safe  to say there are untold millions of parents experiencing high levels of stress during the Covid-19 pandemic. We’re being bombarded with situations in which we fear we have little control: the safety of our families, job security, financial stability, life...

The Death of Two Boys and a Toxic Silence

As of January 5th, there had been eight homicides listed in metropolitan Chicago that included three babies. Two of them were 7-month-old Ameer Newell, who was stabbed and scalded in the bathtub and his 2-year-old brother Johntavis, thrown from an 11th-floor window....