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Since its establishment in 1987, the Early Identification Program (EIP) has been dedicated to empowering first-generation students in achieving their goal of higher education and thriving in academic environments. They offer a comprehensive infrastructure for year-round academic enrichment, personal and social development, civic engagement, familial support, and leadership training opportunities.
Formed Families Forward is dedicated to supporting foster, kinship, and adoptive families of children and youth with disabilities and other special needs. Their mission is to improve developmental, educational, social, emotional and post-secondary outcomes for children and youth with disabilities and other special needs through provision of information, training and support to adoptive and foster parents, and kinship caregivers.
Impact Living Services is dedicated to dynamically altering outcomes for at-risk children and their families by delivering services designed to increase resiliency and strengthen relationships. They believe in providing training and resources (to foster families and staff) that are meaningful, individualized, and ongoing. Their services include life coaching, Independent Living coaching, tutoring, mentoring, family coaching, and family counseling in the home.
The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia created Our Children Fund to provide financial assistance for "normalizing" items and experiences to children in the Fairfax County foster care system between the ages of birth and 17 years and young adults between the ages of 18 and 21 if permanency (return home, relative placement, or adoption) is not achieved and addresses their otherwise unmet medical, social, emotional, and education needs.
Project Belong is a nonprofit organization inspiring, recruiting & resourcing churches into the call to care for vulnerable children through foster care and adoption. View resources, get involved, or read the Project Belong blog for more information.
When financially challenging periods are being experienced it is important to turn to programs that can help meet basic needs. The programs offering Help for African Americans in Virginia will help you get by and make ends meet, while you strive for self-sufficiency. Most are designed to provide short term assistance, while others will let people receive the benefit for a longer period.