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Causes: Children & Youth, Foster Care, Group Homes, Human Services
Mission: The mission of fostering hope florida is to partner with the community in creating a compassionate system of foster care that honors and protects the rights of children.
Programs: Fostering hope florida, inc. 's approach to improve outcomes for at-risk youth in foster care is to create a system of community-support for foster families and children in foster care. This effort is being pursued through several initiatives: 1) providing community awareness to increase support base and to recruit new foster parents: reached over 1000 people with this campaign. (continued on schedule o) 2) providing free services to children in foster care: served over 300 (services include: tutoring, mentoring, providing necessities: clothing, toiletries, distributing educational material, transportation, providing car seats, beds, toys. 3) operating 3 community supported group homes for children in foster care called hope houses: provided a home for 30 children