ADOPT-A-FAMILY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC
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Mission Statement
Adopt-A-Family of the Palm Beaches, Inc. is dedicated to strengthening families with children in their efforts to achieve stability and self-sufficiency by providing access to all-encompassing services.
About This Cause
Adopt-A-Family’s work began in 1983, when our three founders “adopted” a family of four – a husband, wife, and two young children – who had been crushed by medical bills and forced into homelessness. With nowhere else to go, the family was living under a bridge. Our founders made it their mission to help this family find a home, achieve stability, and reclaim dignity – and then began doing the same for other Palm Beach County families who had fallen upon hard times. Since then, Adopt-A-Family has walked beside more than 54,500 struggling households, working exclusively in Palm Beach County and focused entirely on serving low-income households with minor children. Agency intervention provides the client-centered guidance families need to overcome barriers, cultivate a stable home environment, and envision and work toward a brighter future. Adopt-A-Family’s organization goals include: • preventing or ending episodes of family homelessness; • ensuring families have a safe, stable home they can afford; • guiding families toward self-sufficiency; • facilitating wraparound services, through staff and community partners; and • helping children overcome the social, emotional, and academic setbacks that accompany homelessness and poverty. Last year, Adopt-A-Family worked with 1,557 households and ended/prevented an episode of homelessness for 725 families and their 1,413 children. Adopt-A-Family manages the Family Division of the Senator Philip D. Lewis Homeless Resource Center (HRC), Palm Beach County’s central point of access for all homeless services and base for the agency’s diversion and rapid re-housing efforts. The agency operates Program REACH, the county’s largest emergency family shelter, with 19 units of 90-day interim housing. Adopt-A-Family maintains four apartment complexes on its Lake Worth campus, offering a range of affordable housing options for homeless and low-income families. Project SAFE provides 32 units of supportive housing and intensive case management for homeless families in which the head of household lives with a disability. Wiley Reynolds Gardens Apartments offers nine units of supportive housing for families exiting an episode of homelessness. Service Enriched Housing is an innovative affordable housing program for 31 employed, low-income families dedicated to the pursuit of financial stability and homeownership. Julian Place comprises 14 townhomes for families on the verge of homelessness. This program, a unique partnership with nearby Highland Elementary School, is designed to improve children’s educational outcomes through housing stability. Neighborhood Stabilization Program 2 provides 24 units of scattered-site affordable housing in Lake Worth. Adopt-A-Family’s Housing Stabilization Program provides short-term rent, mortgage, and utility assistance paired with wraparound case management for families experiencing a crisis that has jeopardized their housing. Project Grow, Adopt-A-Family’s afterschool/summer program for elementary school students, helps children overcome the academic setbacks and emotional traumas associated with homelessness and poverty. Adopt-A-Family operates on the principle that housing alone is insufficient for at-risk families to achieve long-term stability and self-sufficiency. Clients are supported through a variety of supplemental in-house services that are geared for different aspects of long-term success, including mental health therapy, job coaching, and a youth success program for middle- and high-school students residing on campus. In addition, case managers work diligently to link families to an array of services offered by the agency’s many valued community partners. Through our partner agencies, families regularly receive childcare vouchers, medical care, job training, legal services, financial literacy training, food, clothing, and scholarships. Each referral helps the family build a foundation for long-term self-sufficiency. Adopt-A-Family is governed by an active, dedicated 19-member Board of Directors, many of whom have been involved with the agency for more than 10 years and are leaders in finance, banking, law, energy, development, and education. For 15 consecutive years, Adopt-A-Family has been awarded Charity Navigator’s highest rating as a 4-Star Charity, an accomplishment achieved by less than 1% of the 9,000 nonprofit organizations evaluated. As part of its most recent Charity Navigator assessment, Adopt-A-Family received a perfect score for accountability and transparency. Adopt-A-Family also has earned the Nonprofits First Accreditation of Excellence and is a recipient of the GuideStar Platinum Seal of Transparency.