Bridge Receiving Center
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Mission Statement
Bridge Receiving Center provides a healing place for children in foster care. We seek to revolutionize the foster care system by providing children with a trauma-responsive residential program aimed at reducing the harm that too often accompanies time spent in foster care.
About This Cause
Bridge Receiving Center is now the Gold Standard of care in WA State, providing a healing place for children in foster care. Through our trauma-responsive program, camp-like setting, and wraparound services, children ages 4 - 18 years old are given the supportive services and care they need during a challenging time of transition in their lives. Children are able to get their questions answered, feel empowered and listened to, and have their mental/emotional/educational/social assessments conducted all from the safety of our facility. Being located on the property of a children's camp means our children also get to participate in all the fun that camp offers a child - exploring their abilities and developing new skills while learning to overcome their fears, grow in confidence and learning to trust others. Care is provided 24/7 by a staff trained in trauma-care and developing resilience in children. Children stay for 30+ days, until they can return home or a suitable placement is found. This length of time promotes healing, stabilization and a reduction in felt trauma in the child while giving their caregivers or future caregivers time to adjust to receiving the child at the end of their stay. One major benefit of Bridge is that siblings are able to stay together, rather than being separated as so often happens when children are put into care. By providing stability and felt safety, Bridge seeks to reduce many of the tragic outcomes often associated with foster care (incarceration, trafficking, homelessness, teen pregnancy). Children in foster care deserve a better start and brighter futures. They need a place like Bridge Receiving Center!