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Safe Families for Children National Website

Safe Families for Children provides informal, family-like support for parents and their children when they are facing difficult and challenging situations. We believe when families are supported children can thrive.

Parents always maintain full custody when using hosting and the program is completely free and voluntary.

All volunteers are extensively screened with background checks, training, references, and home screenings.

Volunteers are covered by our liability insurance and are offered staff support throughout their time hosting children and supporting families.

Our resourceful, and conservative budget is used to fulfill our mission by engaging, empowering, and equipping churches and their volunteers to serve families. Building bridges, and amplifying those funds into far-reaching concrete and tangible provision long term.

Your financial support provides the tools and staff needed to support churches creating teams to bridge to families in their community, and bring them into the supportive fellowship they can offer. It also multiplies the impact of our partners programs.

Support

Our evidence-based program is focused on bridging the support families receive from the church in their neighborhood.

Not creating one more temporary program to put a band-aid on a family’s need - but connecting them to community that can help them find a way to long-term stability.

This allows us to work with a small budget with a high investment return. One year of foster care costs the state upwards of $40,000 a year - one hosting averages out to less than $1,500.

The real return is the connection and support that follow and what research has found most effectively moves people out of poverty - supportive relationships that cross socioeconomic boundaries.

Serve in a wide variety of roles. All of them
can fit into your life - and the time you have
to offer!

Learn more on the first Wednesday of each
month at 12 and 7 pm - register here!

Serve

Host Families are trained and approved to support
parents by providing short-term care for children in their
homes.

Family Friends provide friendship and

support to parents, children, or other volunteers through
building relationships, encouragement, transportation, meals,
and babysitting, etc.

Family Coaches help parents identify and reach their
goals while equipping the volunteers in the circle of
support.

Resource Friends give tangible items or support the
movement through gift cards, meals, assisting with SFFC
events, or errands.

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How Does it Work?

Safe Families trains volunteers within the local community to build communities of support. We then provide a centralized intake and staff connects volunteers with families. We also provide ongoing support so a parent can get back on their feet.

Our goal is to see families strengthened and supported by their community. With a community of support, we believe child abuse

and neglect can often be

prevented and families

remain intact.

Who Do We Support?

We build social support systems around

families with minor children experiencing:

Homelessness
Social isolation
Loss of employment
Mental health/postpartum crisis
Hospitalization/medical emergency
Addiction/recovery
Domestic Violence

Founded in 2003 in Chicago, Illinois, Safe Families for Children has partnered with churches, local community agencies, government organizations and volunteers to create communities of support for families in need. We now have over 100 chapters located in 70 cities in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Philippines, and Hong Kong. Safe Families has been serving in Tallahassee since 2017.

The goal is simple:

Keep children safe and families together!

All Flourishing is mutual

For our community workforce, economy, public safety, and public health to
flourish our most vulnerable neighbors must flourish as well.

Safe Families for Children engages, empowers, and equips volunteers coming
alongside families experiencing social isolation so they can flourish together.

We hope you’ll join us as a supporter to multiply the movement and expand
that work and its impact.

Support

Serve