For foster youth unable to live at home due to neglect or abuse, a safe and loving home to "feel normal" again can be all it takes. As a foster parent, you can help provide the love, stability and structure needed during a scary and traumatic time.
Create lasting impact
Your support makes all the difference to our community’s children and teens by directly contributing to their safety, permanency and well-being. And there are many ways to give — monthly, one or more donations, planned gifts. No matter the gift, your generosity shows our kids their community cares about them.
All impact areas are key to success.
And with your donation to Embrace Families, you help support all of them.
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Our Impact Areas
Embrace Families provides, supports and manages a wide range of services and resources designed to address the many factors that contribute to the well-being of our community’s children and families. Your donation To Embrace Families Foundation will directly support one or more of the following priorities.
Child Abuse Prevention
No child should experience the pain of abuse, neglect or abandonment. Through our collaborative network of dedicated providers, we work to ensure that vulnerable children are protected and that they receive the help they need to feel secure and cared for. With your help, we provide safe havens while delivering medical, counseling and other essential services to help childhood victims heal and move towards brighter futures.
This includes: foster care, adoption services, victim therapy, child and family advocacy, and more.
Family Stability
To reduce the trauma of family separation, we work to restore and strengthen families before the need to enter the foster care system occurs. Our investment in diversion services includes homelessness prevention, family therapy, and youth mental health programs. With your help, we stabilize families by providing the necessary support they need to keep children safely in their homes.
This includes: case management, family in-home diversion services, family homelessness prevention, youth mental health programs, and more.
Youth Success
A child’s future should not be indelibly tarnished by events that brought them into the child welfare system. Our investment in youth services ensures that teens and young adults in foster care have the supplies, resources and skills necessary to thrive personally, to achieve academically, and to prepare for career and personal success. With your help, we provide the support they need to navigate the complex road to self-sufficient adulthood.
This includes: mentoring, tutoring, youth advocacy preparation, housing support, academic support, career readiness, independent living transition planning, driver license training, and more.
Legacy Giving
There are many ways to support our community’s children and families. One of them is legacy giving, which includes a variety of options to fit your giving profile. Here are some of them:
- Payroll deduction
- Work fundraisers
- Employer gift match
- Naming gift opportunities
- Contributions from IRAs, stocks, charitable gift annuities, donor-advised funds and other planned gifts
- Gifts through wills and bequests
Contact Kristine Vorpagel, development director, at Kristine.vorpagel@embracefamilies.org to learn about these and other ways you can give to Embrace Families and be a champion for our community’s children.
More information about our monthly giving program is available in our frequently asked questions.
Testimonials
Joseph Avila
"I know I wouldn't have graduated high school. My case worker constantly called me and helped me sign up for college. She was always in my corner, teaching me to stay positive. Another staff member was like a big brother to me. We played a lot of basketball together, and his encouragement really meant a lot."
Jessica Purvis
"Simultaneously adopting four siblings from foster care and becoming a mom of five is the most difficult thing I have ever done. It's also very exhausting and rewarding. I am forever blessed with the ability to make memories with our adorable children."
Jill Spannagel
"When I see children and families overcome problems, heal and learn from experiences and sustain their progress, this makes me so glad to be a social worker in this field. It's knowing that I can have an impact on breaking down barriers for families is so very fulfilling."
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