Finally Family Homes: Hope for Homeless & Foster Youth
We all need a place to call home and people to call family.
Each year, thousands of young people, such as youth aging out of foster care, turn 18 without a support system, leading many into homelessness and vulnerability.
We believe the most impactful solutions include building connection and helping them tap into their potential to achieve an extraordinary life
Finally Family Homes is based in Santa Clarita, a beautiful city on the northwestern edge of Los Angeles County. LA County is home to the largest foster care system in the nation as well, as the largest population of unsheltered people facing homelessness.
We offer caring solutions like our host homes initiative, offering housing in local homes while empowering youth with practical skills to secure their future.
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What Moved Us to Action
We know that isolation and lack of supportive relationships make youth particularly vulnerable to trafficking and homelessness. We saw the institutional systems in place now as severely lacking in building lasting connections and a caring community.
We believe a more compassionate, empowering, and connected approach to helping youth, like those transitioning out of foster care, is what’s lacking in current solutions to homelessness in Los Angeles.
So we founded Finally Family Homes in 2017 to build real and lasting connections with transition-aged foster youth, while nurturing them in every area of their lives including personal development, education, mindset, relationships, financial freedom, and spirituality. In recent years the community has reached out to us to support other youth facing homelessness, so we have expanded to support any young adult in need.
We replace cycles of brokenness and poverty with hope, wholeness, and thriving.
Unfortunately, many youth from foster care end up in cycles of poverty and loss. They struggle to get by and many are devastated to lose their own kids to foster care. We work alongside these promising young adults to break the cycle of poverty and get out from under the systems that result in long-term dependence and struggle.
We Believe In the Power of Connection
We are run by a talented team of volunteers from a variety of backgrounds, skills, and gifts, with a shared passion to invest in and care for foster youth thrust into the world without the security of a home or family.
We believe genuine, healthy connection is the key to our success and theirs. Though they might not have a family of blood, they have a family with us and the additional support of the many organizations we partner with.
Offering the Healing Power of Faith
We are a nonprofit that is founded and driven by faith. And we believe that a whole solution includes offering youth the chance to connect to the hope and opportunities that only faith can provide.
Finally Family Homes was founded by Christians who were inspired by their faith to create this organization for the purposes of honoring God’s call “To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8, NIV).