Most of us have a place to call home. To us, home means comfort, safety, warmth, love, laughter and rest. We can be ourselves at home, so we can thrive, grow and learn.
Young people who live in foster care, relative care or another impermanent situation do not have a place to truly call home. Can you imagine? Even a great foster home is not a permanent home. These kids spend their energy and focus on survival and acceptance rather than growth and learning. If they make it through high school successfully and want a college degree, what happens next?
A few of these teens now have a home for their college years because of the generous 2021 IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area grant that allowed Embrace Florida Kids to purchase its first-ever Higher Education Home.
For those wondering who we are, Embrace Florida Kids and Embrace Alabama Kids began in 1890 as the United Methodist Children’s Home, an orphanage. During the past 130 years, we have changed with the needs of our communities, and we now provide a much wider range of services to the vulnerable, including foster care, family preservation, and group homes in Northwest Florida and Alabama.