Please help us keep brothers and sisters together!
The Anderson children were placed in foster care as a result of severe neglect. The seven children were terribly frightened. This was a time when they needed each other the most. Their home wasn’t safe. But it was the only home that they knew. Being placed in
foster care meant that they were removed from that home, their family, their school and their friends. Many wondered if the children would be able to remain together. Providing for a family of this size is challenging.
Fortunately, Children’s Harbor was able to provide the family with a home where they could thrive. On our 13 acre campus, the children remained together during this traumaic time in their lives. They lived in a loving home with dedicated house parents, received counseling, attended school, celebrated birthdays and holidays, parcipated in sports and acvtivities and were able to just be kids.
Most importantly, they were able to do all of this together.
Children will often turn to their siblings for support. This is especially true when a relationship with parents has been strained by abuse and neglect.
Keeping siblings together is crucial for children in foster care. The transition to their new environment becomes a little easier when they are together. Furthermore, they are not burdened by thoughts of where their siblings are and whether or not they are safe.
At Children’s Harbor, sibling groups of all sizes can remain together and support each other during a very traumatic time in their lives. Their sense of security is reinforced through a consistency in caregiving by dedicated house parents within a healthy home. The parent that has dinner and spends the evening with the children is the same person who wakes up and has breakfast with them the next day.
Simply put, Children’s Harbor provides children with an environment where they are able to flourish.
Please consider making a financial gift to our Annual Anchor Society Campaign. Your donation will help us continue to provide loving homes to brothers and sisters in foster care. With this gift you will be an Anchor for the children who call Children’s Harbor their home.
Please help to keep brothers and sisters together and give what you can today. Thank you.
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