Stabilize Placements
Support youth and caregivers before a crisis becomes a disruption, psychiatric admission, or residential placement.
Nonclinical youth and family support
Helping young people find stability when everything around them is changing.
The Ones Who Stayed Foundation supports foster youth, former foster youth, young adults, and caregiving families through placement stabilization, transition support, housing guidance, family support, and practical community resources.
Our promise
Compassion. Stability. Opportunity.
Support that surrounds clinical care, strengthens families, and helps youth stay connected, safe, and seen.
- Placement stabilization and transition support
- Family support, training, and practical resources
- Housing guidance for young adults leaving foster care
Why this matters
The gap is often the bridge.
Young people can leave a psychiatric hospital, residential placement, foster home, or disrupted placement and step into a new environment with unfamiliar people, expectations, rules, routines, and fears. The system may call it discharge or placement. For the child, it can feel like starting over again.
Our role is nonclinical support. We do not replace therapists, case managers, social workers, hospitals, or DCBS. We help carry the practical, relationship-based support around those services so youth and families are not left trying to hold everything together alone.
Core areas
What the foundation is being built to do
Bridge Transitions
Walk with youth and families before, during, and after higher-level care so the return home is not a cold handoff.
Support Families
Offer training, peer support, team-building activities, and resource help for foster and caregiving families.
Guide Housing
Help young adults leaving foster care understand housing options, applications, landlord communication, and tenancy skills.
Resource Essentials
Develop a thrift store and resource center with public shopping and protected access for foster youth and families.
Build Belonging
Create consistent community support so youth know there are people who do not disappear when things get hard.
Be one of the ones who stayed.
Founding support helps turn this vision into a real community resource.