Gilchrist Foundation Supports Building a Brighter Future Campaign
The need for behavioral treatment in Siouxland is growing. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, national drug-involved overdose deaths has risen drastically over the last two decades from less than 20,000 deaths in 1999 to more than 100,000 deaths in 2021. Alcohol use continues to be a concern in Iowa as well. Binge drinking was higher in Iowa compared to the US national average, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health. That’s why the Rosecrance Foundation’s Brighter Futures campaign to expand the Sioux City campus is so important and why the Gilchrist Foundation supported it in 2023.
In 2023, the Rosecrance Foundation received a 1:1 Challenge Match for $50,000 to use for its “Building a Brighter Future” campaign. The campaign will fund a planned expansion of the Sioux City recovery campus including a Therapeutic Recreation Resource Center that will offer art, music and physical activity as well as paved walking trails – all projects that align with the Gilchrist Foundation’s funding support. The goal of the campaign is to raise $3.1 million and to date has raised $3.02 million through capital gifts and the “Building a Brighter Future” benefit held October 2023.
Expanded Campus Will Offer Expanded Treatment Services
The Brighter Future campaign will fund an expansion of Rosecrance Jackson Center’s recovery campus, located at 3500 W. Fourth Street and built in 2015. Since that time, it has grown to become one of Iowa’s largest addiction treatment providers. From its 13 residential and outpatient facilities, Rosecrance Jackson Centers provides care to nearly 7,500 children, adolescents and adults every year and substance abuse prevention and education services to more than 20,000 people per year.
Expansion plans for Rosecrance Jackson Center’s recovery campus.
The expanded Sioux City campus will allow it to incorporate proven, evidence-based experiential and recreational therapies into the treatment experience at Rosecrance Jackson Centers to treat body, mind and spirit. The expansion will include a therapeutic recreation resource center, connected walking paths and a chapel.
Body: A recreation and fitness area will allow clients to engage in recreational therapy activities, including leisure education, physical fitness, yoga, team building, creative expression, playfulness, connection and therapeutic games.
Mind: A walking path will create direct, convenient connections so the new resources at the main residential building may be accessed by all on the greater campus. This half-mile paved trail will also offer therapy and leisure spaces and present the perfect path to access the mind-healing power of nature.
Spirit: The addition of a chapel to the campus offers a place for silence, a means to find the respite many in recovery need, and space to heal the spirit. Clients and staff will have a meditative space to conduct spirituality groups and individual therapy, practice mindfulness, contemplate, pray or simply be still.
About Rosecrance Jackson Centers
Rosecrance Jackson Centers began in 1976 and provided addiction treatment options for adults but lacked specific services for adolescents. Dr. Bill and Marienne Jackson saw an opportunity to bridge the gap in care. Services grew over the next two decades through community affiliations and expansion to locations throughout western Iowa. These services offered inpatient adult treatment, enhanced the continuum of recovery for women with children and included specialized treatment services for professionals with addictions.
In 2015, the Jackson Centers residential treatment campus opened, offering a beautiful center for recovery on sprawling land near the Missouri River and adjacent to the spacious War Eagle Park.
In 2019, Jackson Recovery Centers affiliated with Rosecrance Health Network to become Rosecrance Jackson Centers. The nonprofit organization now provides an even stronger continuum of care with the depth of resources from a parent organization with a 107-year history. The main behavioral health campus is supported by outpatient treatment sites in downtown Sioux City, Cherokee, Davenport, Denison, Le Mars, Spencer and Sheldon.
About the Gilchrist Foundation
The Gilchrist Foundation was created by Jocelyn Gilchrist in honor of her family. She used the wealth accumulated by her family to give back to the community, especially in the areas that were her biggest passions: the arts, wildlife and conservation, public broadcasting and disaster relief. After her death in 2008, the Gilchrist Foundation continued to support these philanthropic interests.
The Foundation is proud to support the causes that were near and dear to Jocelyn Gilchrist’s heart by awarding four types of grants: project grants, micro-grants, endowment grants and capital campaign grants. You can learn more about the entire application process here or contact Security National Bank at 712-277-6586 or wealth@snbonline.com.