Key Impact Areas
Children are safer when families have what they need. Unfortunately, 76% of children in foster care are there for solvable, poverty related issues. And in our community, more than 20% of children are living below the poverty line. Our stability programs collaborate with local churches to ensure families are connected to a caring community who is ready to stand in the gap for families facing economic and social insecurities.
Stable Families
500,000
Diapers distributed to vulnerable children
20,000
Services delivered to families
588
Prevented from needing foster care intervention
2200
Hours of training delivered
2
New Certified Trauma Practitioners
38
Training sessions to 570 participants
Material items are a good start, but we want to empower caregivers and providers with the skills to understand the unique needs of children with traumatic histories, give children the grace of our unhurried presence, and help them heal. Through our Trauma Competencies, we delivered nine in-person sessions, twelve virtual sessions, and hosted the Entrusted Conference with seventeen breakout and main session opportunities for education and personal development.
Trauma Competencies
49
Churches engaged in our network
13
Localities served across the Coastal Virginia area
43%
Families connected to at least one network church
$52,000
Economic value provided by network churches
Most of the time when a family is experiencing a chronic gap in resources, it's not a resource problem... it's an isolation problem. Chronically isolated families are the most at-risk of fracture. But when churches step in to provide connection, families move from crisis to stability and are able to lean on the social capital of their new community to help move them toward independence.
Engaged Communities
NO MORE LONELY FAMILIES
We envision a day where no family is left in isolation to suffer under the impacts of poverty. Our community has everything needed to care for and stabilize lonely families. Each of our 300+ local churches is strategically located throughout the Greater Hampton Roads area and equipped with every skillset and resource that hurting families need. And our team of donors and volunteers are the fuel and power house behind these grassroots efforts. When we mobilize this movement, we believe we will see no more lonely families.
Working with ECHO has completely changed the way we do things. They're now part of our process for finding community support and resources for families and children. It's to the point I don't know how we'd function if they weren't part of our workflow.
Mallory
Social Worker
It’s like you have this super power to somehow anticipate what I need before I can ask for it.
Evelyn
Kinship Caregiver
It’s such an honor to support what you’re doing for families in our community. This work is so important and we’re thankful for you all giving so selflessly to children. Wish we could do more!
Austin
Donor
