child

welfare

We work to alleviate conditions that are harmful to families or place children at risk.

The Foundation is working to alleviate conditions that are harmful to families or place children at risk of maltreatment by supporting the spectrum of prevention, substitute care, and permanency services for children and youth who are at risk or have been abused or neglected.

The Foundation supports organizations offering child welfare services that address prevention of maltreatment to supports for children in substitute care and supports to ensure children secure a healthy, permanent home. Through support for prevention services the Foundation seeks to encourage healthy family functioning and build up the resiliency of youth who have faced adverse experiences.

For youth who have been maltreated and removed from their home the Foundation supports services to hold perpetrators accountable and provide those youth with safe, effective, and therapeutic placements and support services, with a special focus on high-needs youth.

The Foundation’s focus in child welfare is primarily:

• Serving youth in substitute care with therapeutic placements and services
• Building community capacity to care for youth who have been abused or neglected