Free Mental Health Support for Foster Kids

We recently sent out a "thank you" to one of our partners in giving, We-Care.com, for the recent reminder that kind acts can be found everywhere, and how a little kindness goes a long way.
 
When facing the enormous needs of the populations that nonprofits serve, it is often hard not to feel overwhelmed and turn away from the enormity of the problems. At A Home Within we often remind ourselves that if we offer hope and kindness in small packages we are more likely to find inspiration and motivation than guilt and resignation. When our therapists agree to see one current or former foster youth in weekly pro bono psychotherapy "for as long as it takes," that act of kindness is simultaneously both large and small. It's only an hour a week, but it is an hour a week, every week. When they open their office doors, our clinicians open the doors to their hearts—and they carry these young people with them long after therapy has ended.

We are currently raising funds to expand the quality and quantity of services we can provide foster youth. We are a national organization, and some of our national chapters have clients waiting for services. In others, we have therapists waiting for clients. We want to close both of these gaps. We have begun a three-pronged campaign for donations so that we have the funds to recruit more therapists where they are needed and to alert foster youth and foster carers that we are here for them. Everybody is involved in raising funds for A Home Within--even staff members. We believe in what we are doing here, and hope you do, too.

Links:

• Dr. Heineman's blog
• Home Page