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Causes: Children & Youth, Domestic Violence, Family Violence Shelters, Foster Care, Homeless & Housing, Housing & Shelter, Youth Development
Mission: Our mission is to create total, healthy living environments for vulnerable children, youth, and families, and the quality of life which empowers them to thrive and demonstrate responsibility.
Target demographics: To create total, healthy living environments for vulnerable children, youth, and families, and the quality of life which empowers their ability to thrive and demonstrate responsibility.
Direct beneficiaries per year: 44 thousand children, youth and families
Geographic areas served: the Washington Metro region
Programs: We serve homeless children and their parents, survivors of domestic violence, impoverished families, and abused and neglected adolescents. It is our mission to ensure that those who have suffered significant assaults on their childhood have the opportunity to heal and grow. Nationally accredited, NCCF propels more than 44,000 children, youth, and families annually into an improved quality of life through 23 local programs—emergency shelters and transitional housing, therapeutic residential care, foster care and adoption, teen parent services, and community-based prevention services—while relying on community education and training, volunteerism, and advocacy. Our programs have become social service models, redefining both NCCF's reputation and the agency's position in the human service continuum in the Washington Metropolitan Region.