Forever Homes exists to help abused, abandoned and neglected kids find permanent safe and loving homes. We are not a foster care agency. We are not an adoption agency, and no matter what our name sounds like we don’t manufacture mobile homes.

We are a revolutionary way of helping some of the 120,000 foster kids waiting for adoption in the United States each year find permanency. Let’s face it, if it was easy to raise the kids that were waiting in foster care, we wouldn’t have a foster care crisis today. Abused and neglected kids need dedicated, incredible parents to lead them through the healing process. At Forever Homes, we want to support those foster and adoptive parents to help them be successful at their task. We want to raise an army of professionals and volunteers in communities around the world to ensure that those parents have the resources, training, rest and tools to do the job well.

When you walk onto our future campus, you will find a multitude of services for wounded children and their families. A riding arena will be used facilitate therapeutic horse-back riding lessons, a well-researched method of healing for abused and neglected children. Our own offices will house therapists and specialists trained to help foster healing and attachment for wounded children and the families who love them. A respite home will provide the much-needed breaks for families on campus and in the community, so that families do not have to work so hard to find their own respite when they are worn out. The campus will house a drop-off center, where clothes and toys can be made available to adoptive families. Free tutoring will be made available to families, as well. In addition, the campus’ retreat center will offer adoptive families a place to get away and receive care, therapy, and help that they need to make their adoption of a difficult child a success.

In addition, families who are willing to adopt multiple special needs children or children with extreme needs will be given the opportunity to live on campus in the rent-free housing. Living within the supportive environment of these homes will allow families the opportunity to focus on their child’s healing and adjustment for a time, so that the health of the family will be able to be established.

The parents are not accomplishing their mission alone. Inside the home is a mother-in-law-suite that will be used for part time or full time live-in assistance. Living in the cottage next door to their home is a professional care-giver who helps the parents by assisting with the kids and providing support for the parents. In the wider community there are volunteers who help with meals, tutoring, activities for the kids and by giving generously to make Forever Homes possible.

The house will continue to be the home of hurting kids long after our initial family moves out, and the community will be supporting hurting kids when we grow old and grey. Years after the launch of the pilot program, when you walk onto the campus you would see ten homes, five supporting cottages and you could walk onto those campuses all over the country and around the world.

So in a nutshell, Forever Homes is a community of people surrounding amazing parents who are all saving generations of hurting kids.