FAMILY
SUPPORT
“It costs more – not just financially, but also emotionally – to remove a child than it does to try and keep them safely at home.”
THE FAMILY DISRUPTION CRISIS
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.
CAREPORTAL
We connect people who can help with people who need help. Right now, in real time. How it works:
STEP 1
A child or family in
need requires help
from a child-serving
professional
UNCOVERING NEEDS
STEP 2
The child-serving
professional vets
and types needs
into CarePortal
SUBMITTING NEEDS
STEP 3
CarePortal alerts
nearby churches
and community
members to needs
SHARING NEEDS
STEP 4
Churches and
community members
partner to ensure
that the child and
family is helped
MEETING NEEDS
STEP 1
A child or family in
need requires help
from a child-serving
professional
STEP 2
The child-serving
professional vets
and types needs
into CarePortal
STEP 3
CarePortal alerts
nearby churches
and community
members to needs
STEP 4
Churches and
community members
partner to ensure
that the child and
family is helped
UNCOVERING NEEDS
SUBMITTING NEEDS
SHARING NEEDS
MEETING NEEDS
Tapp Legacy
Cash Assistance
RESPITE
CARE
When foster parents need more support, respite care is available. Every week teens in foster care come to the HOPE585 for lunch, martial arts, life skills, music therapy, and social time.
REUNIFICATION
SUPPORT
