
The Six Promises - Our Business Model
At our core, and for more than 110 years, Hillcrest Family Services (based in Dubuque, Iowa and serving eastern Iowa) has enhanced the lives of children, families and adults in need by teaching skills and providing information and resources.
Family Life Center Initiative
We believe that God desires our commitment to corporate and individual worship, prayer and reflection. With this in mind, Hillcrest Family Services has framed the current strategic plan to incorporate the goals and objectives required to fulfill the Six Promises. At the center of this effort is a group of initiatives called the Hillcrest Family Life Campus.
These comprehensive, long-term initiatives will allow us to deliver on the Six Promises more effectively to our children, our staff, our communities and more.
Stories of Promise - Hillcrest Calling
The mission in which we are called has many faces. Both our clients and our staff are People of Promise, with inspiring stories that demonstrate how the Six Promises are lived out each and every day at Hillcrest Family Services.
(Click here to read more Stories of Promise in the Hillcrest Calling)
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Success Stories
The following two notes were received from a mother and her son. Nathan is a ten-year old from Jackson County who attends our school in Dubuque. He is highly oppositional and suffers from chronic depression so severe that he has been evaluated three times by the psychiatric unit at the University of Iowa Hospital. Before he began participating in our Education Program, he seldom attended school at all or would spend all of his class time in a deep, depression-induced sleep. While here he has attended school every day, and the length of his on-task behavior in relation to the sleeping episodes has steadily increased. He is doing very well in scho...
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