Providing Special Services to Foster / Adoptive / Relative Care Families
HELP ONE CHILD's in-house services are free and open to anyone caring for someone else's child who attends our orientation and becomes a part of our network. We provide twice-monthly orientations at our home office in Los Altos as well as regional orientations at strategically placed church campuses for those who wish to join our network - see current orientation schedule. Becoming part of the Help One Child network entitles families to receive such services as volunteer help or goods and professional services, parent training and support events with low-to-no cost childcare. Special education classes are open to non-network members.
Help One Child offers:
• Free TB tests and health screens
• Monthly classes for CPR/1st Aid certification
• Annual water safety course
• A Hotline, available Monday-Friday, 9 to 5, with advice and resources for foster and adoptive parents as well as referrals to professionals for behavioral issues
• Goods such as cribs, backpacks, used vehicles for emancipated teens that are advertised monthly in our online foster parent newsletter, "FoFoPa"
• Volunteer services like babysitting, mentoring and tutoring
• The Parent Child Connection, a monthly parent support group for families working with Attachment and other disorders
• Quarterly seminars with professionals on various children's disorders and treatments and parenting techniques (certificate of enrollment is accepted for annual foster parent education requirement)
• Neurofeedback training for parents who want to do in-home treatment
• A one-week professionally-led camp for families with children suffering from Attachment Disorder
• Advocacy, support and a website of resources for legal issues
• Social events for foster families to come together
• A prayer network
Help One Child is a non-profit 501(c) (3) corporation founded in 1993 that relies solely on individual, corporate, or church donations and foundational grants to fund its various programs and services.
