Agape Villages began its ministry in 1958 as Sierra Children’s Home and evolved into a network of regional group homes. In 1995 they moved to foster family care, changing their name to Agape Villages. Since 1958, they have served more than 6,000 of California’s most troubled youth. Agape Villages remains committed to the same principles that energized the agency’s founders: their values; providing the very highest level of professional services to disadvantaged children and their families; devotion to the people who choose to provide loving foster care for homeless and disadvantaged children to help recover and reshape their futures.
Braid Mission is a unique community of more than 150 active volunteers who gather weekly to surround foster youth with hope, presence, recreation, and community. These volunteers represent a variety of backgrounds, ages, and interests. More than half of Braid’s youth have been matched for two years or longer. In addition to intergenerational team mentoring, Braid also sends greeting cards to foster youth through the Cards of Hope program. Since its founding in 2014, Braid has educated and inspired thousands in the Bay Area and beyond with a message of hope, through outreach events, trainings, and collaborations with partner organizations like the Foster Youth Museum.
EA Family Services is a foster family agency serving Northern California, including the Bay Area and The Valley. They serve children from ages 0-17 in their foster care program and teens aged 18-21 aging out of foster care through their THP+FC program. The corporation, originally named Environmental Alternatives, was founded in 1981 when it opened its first group home in Quincy. The Foster Family Agency began in 1983 to better meet the needs of foster care in Northern California. They are now fortunate to serve more than 1,000 clients every year through their 15 offices and four group homes.
St. Andrew’s Residential Programs for Youth (S.T.A.R. Programs) was established in 1976 in collaboration with St. Andrew’s Church in Saratoga, California. S.T.A.R. is a nonprofit agency that provides residential care to youth and young adults in foster care, refugee foster care, and the juvenile justice system. S.T.A.R. currently operates a foster family agency with approved resource family homes, a transitional housing placement program for minors aged 16-17 who are learning independent living skills, and a transitional housing program for non-minor dependents, aged 18 to 21, working their way to living independently in the community.
Northern California Family Center is a nonprofit, licensed Foster Family Agency that has been serving the needs of youth and families for over 43 years. Our staff are dedicated professionals on call 12- hours a day to provide experienced clinical care and assessment for a wide range of personal and family program.
Northern California Family Center offers three programs within our agency; Foster Care, Runaway/ Crisis Program and Counseling Services. The counties that NCFC serves are Contra Costa and Solano County.
Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Ramon Valley Unified School District (SRVUSD) stands among the highest-achieving school districts in California. With approximately 30,000 students, the District continually maintains graduation rates in excess of 96%. Approximately 50-60 kids in the SRVUSD are identified as homeless or in foster care, and SRVUSD has a tremendous amount of support in place to meet their needs.
