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ECHO Family Care Partners

This year we served an average of 227 families every single month, providing diapers and other basic needs, and preventing 88% of children from entering the foster care system.

Stable Families

We added two new Trauma Certified Practitioners to our team and delivered more than 2200 hours of trauma competency training and education sessions to caregivers, medical professionals, law enforcement, educators, church ministry leaders and volunteers across 8 different states.

Trauma Competencies

In 2023, our network of church response teams increased by 9%, reaching into two new cities and expanding within targeted high-impact communities.

Engaged Communities

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