Child and Family Charities

Mission: To strengthen and support children, families, and individuals as they evolve and grow in a changing community.

Child and Family Charities is a local nonprofit charity that has helped children, youth, and families have brighter futures through 30+ programs, including foster care and adoption, a  runaway and homeless youth shelter, behavioral health counseling, and basic needs assitance.  

Child and Family Charities provides a comprehensive range of programs and services aimed at ensuring the success of children, youth, and families:

• Family Growth and Resource Center: Providing basic needs such as diapers, household supplies, and clothing for free. They also provide education and referral assistance.
• Family Enrichment Center: Assisting foster children through recruitment, training, and placement of foster families, facilitating adoptions, and providing post-adoption support programs to create lasting, supportive families.
• Youth & Family Support Services: Including Teen Accountability Program, and helping families address the root causes of truancy through counseling
• Angel House: A residential program for pregnant and parenting teens in foster care and their children, offering nurturing support and therapeutic services to break cycles of abuse and neglect.
• Gateway Youth Housing Services: Serving homeless and runaway youth (ages 12-21) through a range of programs including Street Outreach, Higher Grounds, Crossroads, SCHYP, and other housing programs.
• Brighter Futures Wellness Clinic: Offering mental health counseling, therapy, assessment, and substance abuse treatment to support children, youth, individuals, and families.

Child and Family Charities is dedicated to empowering youth and families to overcome challenges, achieve independence, and build brighter futures.

For more information, please visit childandfamily.org