No child should be taken from their family because of poverty!
When a crisis of poverty puts children at risk of foster care, Together with Families steps in.
We provide emergency support to prevent foster care—covering basic needs such as housing, transportation, food, healthcare, and child care, while our Peer Specialists help families navigate government systems and access our network of partners, creating a one-stop shop for families experiencing a crisis of poverty.
We don’t just respond to crises—we empower families to lead, advocate, and transform their own communities, creating lasting change that ripples across generations, keeping kids safe, stable, and home where they belong.
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Addressing the Basic and Self-Defined Needs of Families
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Prioritizing Relationships
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Helping Families to Create a Legacy Beyond Poverty
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Building Meaningful Relationships with Communities and Families
“A beacon of hope in my darkest times.”
- Johnette Hill
Our ecosystem of nonprofits, businesses, and community partners allow us to serve as a one-stop hub for families at risk of losing their children to foster care.
Three Pathways for Empowering Families
By co-designing and implementing solutions with families, we empower them to create lasting stability.
Family Support Program
When a crisis of poverty puts children at risk of foster care, our Family Support Program steps in.
Our Family Support Program provides rapid emergency support to keep families together and prevent foster care.
Through our ecosystem of nonprofit partners, businesses, and other community partners, we serve as a one-stop shop for families experiencing a crisis of poverty, helping them move from a place of crisis to calm.
Emergency Financial Assistance: When a family is facing a financial emergency that could lead to foster care, we provide one-time flexible financial assistance when no other agency can help (referred by Child Protective Services). This urgent support covers critical needs to keep children safe with their families such as: safe housing, utilities, childcare, transportation to safety, and mental and physical healthcare.
Three-Month Peer Support Program: Families who need additional support and are referred by schools or Child Protective Services are paired with our trained Peer Specialists. For three months, they meet weekly and work together on SMART goals (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound). Our Peer Specialists provide emotional support, coaching in parenting, budgeting, and navigating government systems, and flexible financial assistance for urgent needs such as housing, transportation, childcare, and mental and health care.
At our HUB, our family resource center, families can Heal, feel Uplifted, and know they Belong. They access essential resources like food, children’s clothing, hygiene and cleaning supplies, and baby items. They can also connect with ongoing peer-led support through Family Cafés and support groups. We build a loving community where families with similar lived experiences can grow and learn together, while creating lasting supportive relationships.
KinCare Program
When a parent cannot care for their child, it’s often a relative who steps up with little to no notice.
Our KinCare Program exists to support children placed with relatives who are experiencing a crisis of poverty to prevent that crisis from leading to family separation or foster care. We respond within 24–48 hours to help stabilize the home and meet each child’s immediate needs. Every child receives a full setup: a new bed, new bedding, a new toy, and the essentials—clothing, food, hygiene, cleaning, and baby supplies, and more—so they feel safe, seen, and cared for.
From there, we work alongside the kinship caregiver to help them stabilize the household. Each family is matched with a Kinship Navigator—a trained peer with lived experience—who meets with them weekly for three months to help them navigate government systems, set goals, provide flexible financial support, and connect them to housing, legal, transportation, healthcare, and childcare.
At our HUB, our family resource center, families can Heal, feel Uplifted, and know they Belong. They access essential resources like food, children’s clothing, hygiene and cleaning supplies, and baby items. They can also connect with ongoing peer-led support through Family Cafés and support groups. We build a loving community where families with similar lived experiences can grow and learn together, while creating lasting supportive relationships.
Apprenticeship Training Program
From Lived Experience to Leadership our paid Apprenticeship Training Program is a 9-month opportunity for youth (age 17+), relative caregivers, and parents who have completed one of our support programs and are ready to lead. This isn’t just job training—it’s a pathway to purpose, power, and community impact.
Apprentices are paid to grow, learn, and lead alongside Together with Families staff. Through weekly training and hands-on experience, first-year apprentices build real-world, transferable skills in areas like: peer support and mentorship, mental health and wellness, workforce readiness, advocacy and storytelling, navigating systems, parenting and leadership development, financial management, and more.
After successfully completing the first year, apprentices may be invited to continue as second- and third-year apprentices and be a part of our Design Team—helping to co-create, test, and lead the very programs they once participated in. Apprentices play a key role in shaping and leading support groups, Family Cafés, outreach efforts, and program innovation.
