“It costs more – not just financially, but also emotionally – to remove a child than it does to try and keep them safely at home.”
Every child belongs in a healthy, loving family and every family deserves support, stability and care.
Across the United States, however, a hidden crisis has been ravaging our communities. Each year, government child protection agencies are alerted to more than 7 million children¹ who have experienced maltreatment. These reports have resulted in over 400,000 children being removed from their homes and placed in an overburdened foster care system. Not only are too many kids being separated from their families for preventable reasons, but a disproportionate number of children in foster care are Black. Any amount of time spent in foster care is traumatic and has lasting consequences that put kids at high risk for devastating outcomes later in life.
HOPE585 provides the following services to help strengthen and keep families together.