It started as an orphanage more than one hundred years ago and still today The Children's Campus in Mishawaka continues to serve needy children. The campus helps children, teens, and adults in serious need of psychological treatment with residential services.

However cuts are on the way that could limit those services.

The children's campus is an affiliate of the Family and Children's Center. It provides intense counseling for teens that are severely and emotionally distressed. Every year about 150 children are served. In the past couple of the years the staff has been cut down excluding counselors until now.

The budget problems stem from Indiana’s Department of Child Services, which is reorganizing and tightening their funds.

Juvenile Justice Center Director Peter Morgan says, “If the state is dictating the child can only be there for this many months, a lot of times, treatment is not going to be effective in this many months. A child should not be made to fit your budget constraints, the budget should be used to address the needs of the child.”

A director at the Campus says clincial therapists, psychologists, and youth treatment specialists will be cut. Teens that stay at the campus are referred there by CPS or the Juvenile Justice Center.