Pleasant Hills Children's Home provides assistance to:
- Children who are neglected or homeless.
- Children whose parents must be separated from the family due to medical or psychiatric problems, or incarceration.
- Children whose family circumstances do not allow the family to adequately care for them.
- Children whose families are experiencing a crisis, such as stepparent conflicts or family involvement in drugs and alcohol.
- Families facing financial problems or crisis.
- Children suffering from the trauma of physical, verbal or sexual abuse or abandonment.
- Children whose parents or conservators are afflicted with health conditions that prevent them from maintaining full responsibility for the child.
- Children whose parents are deceased.
- Parents and children who have decided that a "separation time" is a prerequisite to family healing.
- Children who need training in social skills, peer interactions and authoritative relationships to function on a more proper level and exhibit age-appropriate behaviors.
- Children who are experiencing mild emotional problems or are having difficulty making proper choices when faced with negative peer pressure.
- Children who are experiencing moderate learning disabilities or moderate school problems.
- Children who are oppositional and periodically express their anger and pain through verbally hostile episodes.