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A PARTNERSHIP FOR TOMORROW

Fostering Healthy Futures 

Adoption Options partnered with The Kempe Center and Lutheran Family services to expand the Fostering Healthy Futures Programs. These are evidence-based mentoring and skills training programs for youth and adolescents with child welfare involvement. The end goal is to empower these youth, promote healthy development, and improve their outcomes.

In 2024, Adoption Options will serve 24 youth ages 9-11 through the Fostering Healthy Futures for Preteens Program. Through extensive research and evaluation, Fostering Healthy Futures for Preteens has been proven to have positive impacts related to: 
  • Better mental health functioning
  • Fewer trauma symptoms
  • Less mental health treatment
  • Lower rates of suicidality
  • Less delinquency and involvement in the juvenile justice system
  • Higher rates of permanency
  • Fewer placement changes
  • Less residential treatment
  • Higher quality of life​

Adoption Options will also service 18 teens through the Fostering Healthy Futures for Teens program in 2024. Research on the Fostering Healthy Futures for Teens program is ongoing, but preliminary outcomes suggest the program:
  • Reduces delinquency and juvenile justice involvement
  • ​Increases permanency

Placement and Permanency Outcomes

Fostering Healthy Futures programs help Adoption Options further our mission of embracing choices and enriching lives by increasing permanency for kids in foster care. 
Preteen Program has demonstrated:
71% reduction in residential placements
44% fewer placement changes
5x greater permanence
3x more adoptions
2x more reunifications
Teen Program has demonstrated:
7x's greater permanency

Get Involved!

This program requires a lot of support from our community!
Internship Opportunities: If you are interested in interning with the program, check out our opportunities here:
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Skills Group Meal Support: Our 3 cohorts of 8 preteens will meet weekly for a skills group, and we need your help to provide meals. If you've been looking for a way to support the work Adoption Options does, this is the one for you. Volunteers take care of organizing and delivering dinner for 8 youth and their mentors. Fill out the form below!

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