Helping Children, Unifying Families, Creating a Stronger Community
• Reduces the number of children being placed in foster care.
• Helps keep families together during emergencies and challenging circumstances.
• Addresses the trauma children and their parents have experienced.
• Helps parents struggling with mental health issues by keeping their children in a safe, nurturing environment.
• Provides short breaks for parents caring for children with mental health needs and challenging behaviors, especially single parents.
• Provides developmental assessments for young children who may have social, emotional, or physical delays. Connects families with early intervention resources, especially when children have limited contact with educational or medical professionals.
• Supports grandparents and relatives raising children, helping them maintain employment, obtain medical care, and address family challenges.
• Helps parents receive needed medical attention without delaying care because they lack safe childcare.
• Helps parents enter substance use treatment when they are ready by providing care for their children.
• Supports parents during rehabilitation by offering short stays for their children during more challenging periods of recovery.
• Provides empathetic, nonjudgmental services.
• Builds relationships of trust and caring that offer families hope and ongoing support.
• Provides information, referrals, and connections to other sources of help.
• Works with government agencies and nonprofits to coordinate wraparound services for families in crisis.
• Connects community members who want to help with families who need support.
• Raises community awareness about the needs of families experiencing poverty.
• Advocates for children and families whose needs and voices may otherwise go unheard
*Waymaker Haven for Children is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization in the State of Ohio.