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Pact is a different kind of adoption organization—honest, child-centered, and anti-racist. Since 1991, Pact’s mission has always been to serve adopted children of color. In every case, the child is always our primary client. In order to best serve children’s needs, we provide not only adoptive placement but lifelong education, support, and community. Our goal is for every child to feel wanted, honored and loved, a cherished member of their communities with proud connections to their cultural heritage. We advocate for honesty and authenticity in matters of race and adoption.

Village Care Family Services, Inc. has been connecting with families providing services in virtually every community in the Philadelphia area for nearly 20 years. VCFS was developed based on a sincere interest in enhancing people’s —parents, grandparents, aunts/uncles, foster parents, etc.— capacity to utilize proven strategies, as well as create their own solutions to address the needs of their developmentally delayed or disabled children. Our reputation for providing caring, high quality, culturally sensitive services to children and their families has been recognized from our earliest days of our existence.

At Rachel’s Gift Inc. we partner with hospitals to assist parents through the initial phase of infant loss through a base of caring and knowledgeable volunteers. We provide grief assistance for the families as well as a training program for nursing professionals and care-givers on companioning patients through infant loss. Our ultimate goal is to provide a healthy environment to begin the grieving process to minimize long-term psychological damage to individuals and their families experiencing infant loss while at the same time providing lifetime keepsakes of their child. These keepsakes will be a lifetime reminder and a physical connection to the child that was only in their arms a matter of minutes or hours.

Facing Cancer Together was started in 2009 by a group of clinicians dedicated to providing support services to people with cancer. We serve people with cancer and their families in the Greater Boston community. Our goal is to help people live the best quality of life possible while navigating through the cancer experience. We serve people with all types of cancer at all stages of the disease. Our mission is to provide support, wellness and educational services to all people affected by cancer, regardless of their capacity to pay. Through professionally facilitated programs, participants become part of a community that promotes hope, empowerment and connection to both the person with cancer and their loved ones.  

In 2010, we started Love is Louder with The Jed Foundation to amplify a simple message – love and support are louder than any voice that tries to bring us down. Our movement started at a time when there was a lot of anger and confusion online after a series of tragedies involving bullying. Six years later, hundreds of thousands of you have grown the movement around the world. We’ve relaunched Love is Louder as a community because we want to turn our message into action. We want individuals and communities all over the globe to commit to taking actions that make us all feel more connected and supported.

STARRY nurtures children, strengthens families, and restores hope through counseling, foster care, and adoption. By serving the neglected, abused, and alone, we help children from hard places and struggling families along in their path to healing. STARRY offers comprehensive counseling that’s guided by grace and love. We also provide compassionate guidance to families as they navigate the foster care and adoption process. STARRY provides trauma-informed care to clients by using Trust-Based Relational Intervention®. We work to meet the needs of the body, soul, and spirit of children by using the TBRI® principles of connecting, empowering, and correcting.

Our mission is to serve individuals and families impacted by addiction, connecting them to the resources they need and removing barriers that prevent them from getting and staying well.Our vision is a community that treats addiction as a chronic condition and those affected with dignity and respect. Navigate Recovery Gwinnett is an authentic grassroots Recovery Community Organization founded on the belief that addiction recovery happens best in community and when all the family members affected get the support they need. We advocate, facilitate, collaborate and encourage recovery!We support people in Emergency Rooms, at SAFE HARBOR, our addiction recovery support center, in jails, in and in treatment. COMING SOON: LIGHTWAY Residential Recovery Wellness for Women.

The mission statement of Just Enduring is to provide grief support to families and those who are close to the families who suffer the tragic death of a child. This support is encompassed in three main objectives: 1. Provide immediate resources to families and those who are close to the families who experience the loss of a child, including information about funeral arrangements, grief support, and other child loss and/or bereavement-related information. 2. Provide peer support to bereaved families and those who are close to the families in the form of connecting new and experienced bereaved families through dinners, visits and other events. 3. Provide group support to bereaved families through a multi-day retreat.

Despite significant reductions across the nation, tobacco use is still the number one cause of preventable death in the United States, killing more than 400,000 people every year. Since being established in 1999, the American Legacy Foundation (Legacy) has developed a comprehensive understanding of the tobacco crisis and the many issues that surround it. Legacy is the nation's largest and most effective independent public health charity dedicated to tobacco use prevention and smoking cessation. Our mission is to build a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit. By giving young people the facts and information they need to reject tobacco and adult smokers the tools they need to quit and stay quit, Legacy is helping people live longer, healthier lives. Legacy employs community intervention and population-based public education strategies to reach current and potential tobacco users, customizing our approach to recognize, respect and address cultural differences.

Sage-ing International is a nonprofit organization committed to transforming the current paradigm of aging to sage-ing through learning, service and community. Learning: We share the Sage-ing® philosophy worldwide by providing workshops, conferences, webinars, and publications for the public and we train a network of Sage-ing® Leaders through the CSL certification program. Service: We encourage and support elders in serving their families, communities, and others around the world. Community: We provide opportunities for individuals on their sage-ing journeys to share and connect with others through interactive opportunities that include chapter programs and wisdom circles. We collaborate with the Conscious Aging Alliance member groups and others who share our vision.

CCMH is dedicated to increasing awareness of mental health disorders and illnesses among children and adolescents. Our goal is to promote early intervention and to prevent the physical, emotional and social consequences of the failure to treat mental illnesses. By encouraging the entire community to support youth who suffer from these disorders, along with their families, the Coalition works to reduce stigma and increase understanding and treatment of these disorders, often referred to as mental illnesses. To do this our mission is to -Educate: Increase the understanding of behavioral and emotional disorders in children, youth and to promote mental wellness for all. -Advocate: Raise awareness of mental health issues and decrease the stigma of mental illness. -Support: Provide families coping with mental health issues with area resources and enhance connections in the community.

Our Mission is critical: to authentically connect young people to safety, community and themselves. We envision a world where all young people's unique identities and talents complete and strengthen the social fabric of our community. New Day Youth and Family Services provides housing, life skills training and supportive services for young people ages 11-21 in Albuquerque (and from the surrounding areas) who are experiencing homelessness. Since 1976 New Day has provided shelter, food and clothing for youth who are homeless 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. We endeavor to continue building a continuum of housing support and pathways out of homelessness for teens and young adults who would otherwise have no safe place to live."