Found Families
Partnering with the Office of Children’s Services, Department of Juvenile Justice and other community youth serving agencies, to identify, accept, and provide, hard-to-place teens, youth who are legally free due to termination of parental rights, and those being released from DJJ custody in a family home setting where they can develop healthy social emotional connections and create lifelong links.
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When foster care is not an option, we give youth a chance to have a family of their own, not just a home to live in. With an aim of connecting them to a network of people who will maintain contact and support them after they leave custody, these strong connections will provide positive support networks to fall back on both economically and emotionally. Found Families will provide stability and support, while giving youth the tools needed to make a successful transition into adulthood.
Components of FF
Cultural Humility
Youth will have support to maintain heritage and cultural connections.
Lifelong Links
Focus on increasing the number and sustainability of youth's positive supportive relationships.
Communicative Competence
Encouraging youth to engage in strategic conversations around their thoughts and feelings.
Social-Emotional Skills
Develop positive adult/youth relationships that improve emotional and mental wellbeing and reduce the number of placement breakdowns, incidents of running away, harmful/risk taking behaviors and improve long term outcomes for children.
Educational Advocacy
Improve educational engagements and attainment by connecting to services.