White Fields Inc

Programs: White fields has implemented a unique continuum of care that consists of 5 distinct levels (d+, c, specialized community home, foster care home, and an emergency overflow shelter). Our continuum of care model allows boys to live at white fields until they graduate from high school and are able to support themselves. During their time at white fields, the boys regain the ability to trust, heal emotionally, broaden relationships, and develop into adulthood. Statistically, children in the foster care system have the odds stacked against them. Fifty percent of children in foster care will drop out of school and only 25% will still be enrolled in school at age 21. Only 2% of children will have earned a 2-year degree. Sixty to seventy percent of foster care children will have children of their own by the time they are 21. Thirty percent of children in foster care will be arrested between the ages of 18 and 21. The white fields' continuum of care model has proven to be successful and allows our boys to be able to become productive adults, not falling into one of these statistics. One hundred percent of the boys who leave our care at 18 have graduated high school. Two of our graduates are attending uco in the fall. One of our graduates served in the united states marines corp. Only 12% of our graduates have been arrested and none of our boys have children of their own. Some of our boys' other successes include: attained off campus part time jobs within the community; volunteer at nonprofits across our city; and lowered or discontinued their psychotropic medications altogether. No other program dealing this level of care has had the success white fields has experienced over the past 11 years.