Causes: Children & Youth, Foster Care, Group Homes, Human Services

Mission: To provide homes for at-risk children and programs to strengthen relationships and restore families.

Programs: Foster care: program designed to provide compassionate care and instruction to at-risk children by placing them in safe and loving foster homes.

family outreach: includes destination. . . Dad program designed to promote the importance of fathers and restoring families by sponsoring an annual father-of-the year banquet, statewide media promotion, and teaching curriculum to incarcerated dads to prepare them for reunification with their children. Also includes resources such as love for life to help couples prepare for marriage and to strengthen and support relationships that will last a lifetime. Love for life is based on the prevention and relationship enhancement program (prep), which was founded on extensive research in the field of marital health--including studies on what happy couples do right and what unhappy couples do wrong.

family finding: the family finding model seeks to build or maintain the youths lifetime family support network for all youth who are disconnected or at risk of disconnection through placement outside of their home and community. The process identifies relatives and other supportive adults, estranged from or unknown to the child, especially those who are willing to become permanent connections for him/her. Upon completion of the process, youth have a range of commitments from adults who are able to provide permanency, sustainable relationships within a kinship system, and support in the transition to adulthood and beyond.

unification services: to provide foster homes for at-risk children, unification services to keep "at risk" families together, family finding services to locate relatives of children who have been languishing in the foster care system and outreach services to strengthen and restore the relationships of incarcerated fathers with their children and families.