No child should enter foster care because their family is in a poverty crisis.
Monthly support helps us respond fast when a family is facing a crisis of poverty, so children can stay safely home.
Nationally, 63% of removals cite neglect, and 9% cite housing as the primary reason for foster care. Too often, these labels reflect poverty and unmet basic needs. We step in early with rapid, personalized support so children can stay safely at home..
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At Together with Families, we believe relational health is part of physical health.
A child’s well-being depends on strong, supportive relationships and stable living conditions.
Our public health approach helps families meet their children’s basic needs before a poverty crisis becomes the trauma of family separation, supporting the whole family so children can stay safely at home and families can build stability that lasts for generations.
How We Keep Families Together
Four ways we prevent foster care caused by poverty.
Emergency Support
Preventing foster care caused by poverty with rapid and personalized support.
A temporary crisis of poverty should never separate a child from their family. We respond quickly with emergency support for basics like food, housing, transportation, health care, and child care, so children can stay safely at home with their parents or relatives, not enter foster care because their family cannot afford basic needs.
Community Healing
Building community and practical skills so families can maintain stability and are not alone.
Families come together to share meals, build friendships, and learn practical skills that support stability at home. Through Family Cafés and other gatherings, parents and relative caregivers build supportive relationships, gain new skills, and find a community where they can heal and grow together.
Youth Wellness & Education
A place for high school teens living with relatives to heal, grow, and belong.
Our KinRise program is a weekly drop-in space for high school teens living with relatives in kinship care experiencing poverty. Teens receive counseling, tutoring, mentoring, and life skills, supported by adults who show up consistently and help them stay on track in school and build strong futures.
Family Leadership
Equipping parents, relative caregivers, and youth to support families and advocate for change.
Our Grow Together Apprenticeship is a nine-month paid leadership pathway for parents, relative caregivers, and youth who have completed our programs. Apprentices build leadership, advocacy, and job skills, while working alongside Together with Families staff to support other families and help prevent foster care caused by poverty.
