 Since 1968, Hope Children’s Home in Tampa, Florida, has worked with the Christ-centered mission to offer care, warmth, stability, and a family-like atmosphere to babies, children, and teens in crisis due to neglect, abuse, or unstable home situations. The foster care home, with additional locations in New Mexico and Honduras, provides an extensive array of social services to children and their families, including residential care for as long as necessary. Hope Children’s Home is the recipient of numerous accolades and notable donations, including a recent donation of 1,000 boxes of cereal from the Ja-Mar RV Resort in nearby Port Richey, Florida.
Accredited by the State of Florida, the foster care home relies entirely on private donations to fund its operations, which run the gamut from food, clothing, and other necessities to educational support for the young adults who leave its care to enter college. Executive director Mike Higgins and his staff and volunteers provide an on-site Christian school, along with numerous opportunities for young people to develop spiritually, intellectually, and athletically as they live on 55 acres of rural, tree-shaded land. The team also put their trust firmly in God, remembering to pray regularly for new opportunities for partnerships with local organizations and donors. The Ja-Mar Rv Resort reached out to Dr. Higgins to offer support at a time when nonprofits of all types were seeing their finances negatively affected by the economic downturn of the COVID-19 pandemic. The RV Resort and the foster home’s leadership were excited by the partnership, recognizing their shared vision that the needy within the community should be helped by those within the community itself.
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 Since its founding in Tampa, Florida, in 1968, Hope Children’s Home has opened its doors to young people in need of a safe and nurturing foster care shelter after enduring problems such as abuse, neglect, and abandonment. In its growing number of 4,000-square-foot Cottages of Hope designed to keep siblings together, Hope Children’s Home provides expanded living spaces, with large bright common areas and cozy bedrooms that offer both privacy and opportunities for meaningful social interactions. The cottages, supervised by loving houseparents 24 hours a day, offer a genuine Christian, family atmosphere.
Since it declines state or federal aid, the foster home relies entirely on private donations. Blessed by numerous committed donors and community partners, the foster home has been able to add several state-of-the-art cottages over the years. Its team showed supporters what moving day in June 2020 was like through a lively video posted on its YouTube channel. “It’s moving day!” shout a big group of ‘tween and teen girls together, running up onto the porch as they relocate from a traditional dorm into their new cottage. Donors are able to see their generosity in action in the video, as the girls wheel suitcases into their new home. A comfortable, light-filled living room, well-appointed and charming bedrooms with plenty of storage, and a large and accommodating kitchen all make the girls proud to share the joys of their new space. To learn more, or to offer financial support, visit HopeChildrensHome.org. |
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