HELPING

CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE

& LONG-TERM PLACEMENT

ABOUT

THE MISSION

WHAT WE

DO

As a caretaker, our aim is to provide the children and youth with the same support, opportunities, and stable emotional environment experienced by children raised in biological families. We believe providing necessary resources will help the children and youth develop unique attributes based on their individual strengths.

We seek to highlight those strengths to drastically improve their likelihood of graduating from high school. Our vision is to ensure that all children and youth impacted by the system have safe, healthy, and positive solutions. Rather than breaking ties with a child after high school, like most caretakers do, we want to build the children's success by continuing to provide the support they need to graduate through college with a bachelor's degree, associate's degree, or certificate from trade school.

By offering the children and youth a varying array of options, we will be able to pinpoint what makes them tick and thus capitalize on their passions, strengths and skills to get them over the pitfalls of high school making the path for to succeed in adulthood.

We value the importance for the children and youth to participate in programs that will develop their character and gifts, and serve as the missing link to improve social skills, self-esteem, and teamwork skills which are essential to their development and growth.

We aim to provide the highest standard of family based care for vulnerable children and youth; to support and help meet their needs. To provide them with opportunities to have access to resources that meet these needs.

CASE STUDY

Woman discusses experience as a student in foster care

Maria Rodriguez, 19, is a 2015 graduate of Ombudsman Charter School who went through school under foster care. Source: azcentral.com

In 2015, The Arizona Republic published a report about the education of in-state students. Among the report's findings:

The state's foster-care students had the highest dropout rate in the state at 18 percent and had a graduation rate of 33 percent, less than half the state's average of 78 percent.

Foster-care students had lower math and reading performances on AIMS, the state's former standardized test that students had to pass to graduate.
42 percent of foster-care students were enrolled in two or more schools during the 2012-13 school year, compared with the state average of 9 percent.

HOW YOUR SUPPORT MAKES A DIFFERENCE

Contributions from donors will provide for the children by meeting their needs with clothes for school, hygiene, and school supplies.

Your support also adds to the possibilities to participate in activities that would otherwise not be within their reach. Activities that support a well rounded childhood with social experiences, character building, and fine tuning of skills and gifts.