Support foster, adoptive, and at-risk families

The Foster Care Crisis is a community-wide problem requiring a community-wide response.

Our Impact

Help One Child is committed to our unique, holistic approach, serving the full breadth of child welfare from prevention through emancipation or post-adoption. By offering support to the entire family we strengthen and encourage long-term placement stability and health.

4,820

Child Beneficiaries

7,624

Volunteer Opportunities

84

Partner Churches over 7 Counties

Get Involved

Your community and church can make a difference.

We provide tools and opportunities for churches to serve families and children in need. The foster care system is vast and complex but with easy on-ramps for volunteers, churches can mobilize their congregations to serve vulnerable families and children.

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The Need

Foster Care is a community wide problem needing a community wide response.

Everyone can do something.

  • 27.9% Drop out rate for high school foster youth
  • 80% of youth who entered foster care at age 12 or older leave the system through emancipation
  • 40% experience homelessness upon aging out of the foster care system
  • 60% of USA native-born human traffic victims are foster youth

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Turning Defiance into Connection: Practical Strategies for Healing with Your Defiant Child

“…Take a few deep breaths… stay calm… speak softly…” Behaviorist, Therapist, Adoption Expert, and Adult Adoptee, Bryan Post offers these simple yet reassuring strategies (and more!) for those who are parenting kids that come from hard places. Learn about the “how’s and why’s” of defiant behavior, and how parents can respond to help them move towards healing.
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Looking at the Teen Brain

Donna Erickson, MA shares about the major brain development and pruning happens in the cortex during adolescence! Read on to see if you recognize some of the common challenges and positives of this stage. Take away some simple strategies to try with your teen!
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