Support foster, adoptive, and at-risk families

The Foster Care Crisis is a community-wide problem requiring a community-wide response.

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Our Impact

Help One Child is committed to our unique, holistic approach, serving the full breadth of child welfare from prevention through emancipation or post-adoption. By offering support to the entire family we strengthen and encourage long-term placement stability and health.

4,820

Child Beneficiaries

7,624

Volunteer Opportunities

84

Partner Organizations over 9 Counties

Get Involved

Your community can make a difference.

We provide tools and opportunities for churches to serve families and children in need. The foster care system is vast and complex but with easy on-ramps for volunteers, organizations can serve vulnerable families and children.

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The Need

Foster Care is a community wide problem needing a community wide response.

Everyone can do something.

  • 27.9% Drop out rate for high school foster youth
  • 80% of youth who entered foster care at age 12 or older leave the system through emancipation
  • 40% experience homelessness upon aging out of the foster care system
  • 60% of USA native-born human traffic victims are foster youth
Learn more About the need

CarePortal is an online platform that brings the needs of hurting children and families in our community to the church’s attention.

Pray, serve, and give to children and families in crisis.
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Annual Fundraiser

New Name. Same Heart. Greater Impact.

Friday, April 24: 6:30pm-8:00pm
Los Altos Community Center

We invite you to Help One Child’s annual fundraiser. This evening marks a new chapter as we unveil our new name and share the vision behind it.

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Family Camp

Whether you give your time or your treasure,
you help make camp possible

Join us July 31-August 2
Redwood Christian Park (in Santa Cruz Mtns)

Family Camp is a special weekend designed for foster, adoptive, relative caregiver, and kinship families to have fun, reconnect, and be refreshed together. Camp is made possible because of the many hands volunteering their time. Help make camp memorable by joining us for the day or for the weekend!

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The Latest Podcast Episode

Faith, Scripture and Church Sustain Your Family Formed Through Adoption and Foster Care

Listen to our newly released podcast as Matt McDonald, Help One Child’s Executive Director, Dad through Foster Care, Adoption and Birth, and a Pastor, discuss how faith, Scripture and Church can help support and sustain your family formed through adoption and foster care. He’ll share when this happens and when church falls short, too.
LISTEN NOW Faith, Scripture and Church Sustain Your Family Formed Through Adoption and Foster Care

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