A Home Within: Bringing Lasting Mental Health Support to Foster Youth
For over 30 years, A Home Within has provided free, long-term mental health care to current and former foster youth by matching them with dedicated volunteer clinicians. Today, they’re expanding faster than ever — launching new chapters nationwide, recruiting more volunteer their programs.
The need for consistent, compassionate mental health care has never been greater, especially for those who have lived foster care experience. As A Home Within scales from an organization who serves hundreds into one that serves thousands, join them in ensuring their clients receive the mental health support they deserve. Learn more at www.ahomewithin.org.
A Home Within
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(510) 387-7518
Executive Director: Reed Connell
Mission
With a mission to create and support lasting, caring relationships for children and youth in foster care, A Home Within identifies, recruits, trains, and supports a network of licensed therapists who each provide free, weekly, one-to-one therapy to a single foster youth “for as long as it takes.” For foster youth who often watch people move in and out of their lives, our model creates an anchor of support.
Begin to Build a Relationship
We know you care about where your money goes and how it is used. Connect with this organization’s leadership in order to begin to build this important relationship. Your email will be sent directly to this organization’s Director of Development and/or Executive Director.
Relational pro bono therapy can be life saving. The relational, financial, and mental health support of A Home Within has the power to heal attachment wounds, connect individuals to vital resources, and provide a very core basic need of consistent, safe, and reliable source of emotional support that one may not have otherwise.
Helping More Foster Youth Get the Therapy They Need
Committed, compassionate volunteer clinicians are at the heart of A Home Within’s mission to offer free, open-ended, individual, relationship-based therapy to foster youth. With staggering numbers of foster youth needing and seeking therapy, more volunteer clinicians continue to be needed.
Executive Director Reed Connell says, “It is likely we’ll hit 750 volunteers this year, and may double it next year. We are looking for $500,000 a year, for the next three years, to support our extraordinary growth and effectively double the number of young people we serve.”
The funding would allow the volunteer clinician community to keep expanding, creating a more robust cohort. “If we’re supporting the mental health workforce’s retention of therapists of color with LGBTQIA, native therapists and so on, we are improving the quality of the mental health field as a whole,” says Connell.
Key Supporters
May and Stanley Smith
Charitable Trust
Sarnat-Hoffman Family Foundation
In-N-Out Burger Foundation
Kaiser Permanente
MYDAR Foundation
Glass Half Full Fund
Mental Insight Foundation
Aviv Foundation
The Louis and Harold Price
Foundation
Pritzker Foster Care Initiative
CASA Organizations
Throughout California
Foster Care Research Group
at the University of San Francisco
11 California Family Foundations
Over 400 Individual Donors