The Healing Home Foundation
Keeping kids from bouncing home to home by strengthening the families who care for them.
Keeping kids from bouncing home to home by strengthening the families who care for them.

The Healing Home Foundation was created to support foster, adoptive, and kinship families with the tools, training, and encouragement they need to help children heal.
We exist to:
• Prevent unnecessary placement disruptions
• Strengthen caregivers with trauma-informed strategies
• Give children a better chance at stability and connection
We turn research-based, trauma-informed guidance into real, usable tools that help families during meltdowns, transitions, and long seasons of overwhelm.
Every placement that breaks down is not just a statistic; it is a child who must start over.
Your support provides stability, training, and relief for families so children can stay in homes where healing can finally happen.
30-50% of foster parents quit within their first year
This constant turnover directly contributes to placement instability for children. Research proves that foster parents who receive adequate support, trauma training, and are valued as partners have significantly higher retention rates
26% of foster care placements break down
Over 1 in 4 placements fail, yet research proves that families with adequate support and resources maintain stable homes. Your donation directly prevents these disruptions.
The national adoption disruption rate is 10-12%
States with robust family support programs achieve disruption rates less than half the national average—proof that support works.
Over 66,000+ adoptions failed in 12 years
Each failed placement represents a preventable trauma. Studies show that families receiving trauma training, respite care, and ongoing support maintain placements that would otherwise disrupt.
100 children spent 300+ nights without placement, nearly double the previous year
This crisis is accelerating. Every dollar invested in preventing caregiver burnout keeps children in stable homes instead of cycling through the system.
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Workshops and practical classes that help caregivers understand behavior and respond in ways that create safety and connection.

Resources and hands-on tools that support regulation, communication, and everyday healing moments.

Financial support so families can access trainings, toolkits, and trauma-informed guidance without cost barriers.

Training and support for agencies, schools, and churches who serve children from hard places.
Children in foster care and adoption have already experienced deep loss. When a placement disrupts and a child moves again, it isn’t “starting over.” It’s another trauma.
Most disruptions happen not because caregivers don’t care, but because they don’t have enough support, tools, or guidance.
Your support helps close that gap so more children experience stability with families who feel equipped, connected, and confident.
Even modest gifts make a meaningful impact.
• $25 – Supports a “Calm in Crisis” resource kit for a family
• $50 – Provides a one-on-one session with a trauma-trained resource specialist
• $100 – Offsets tuition for a caregiver training
• $250+ – Helps sponsor a community workshop or partner training
Please reach us at info@thehealinghomefoundation.org if you cannot find an answer to your question.
The Healing Home Foundation is a newly formed nonprofit corporation in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
We have submitted our application to the IRS for recognition as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity, and our exemption will be retroactive to our date of incorporation once approved.
Because our determination is currently pending, we cannot issue a statement of tax-deductibility at this time. However, once our 501(c)(3) status is approved, all donations made on or after our incorporation date will be tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.
A formal tax-deductible receipt will be issued once our exemption is granted.
Most of your donation directly supports families through trainings, resources, and scholarships. A small portion (less than 5%) supports administration so we can keep operating effectively. The rest are used to directly pay for services and tools for families approved for scholarships by our board.
Absolutely. You can add a note with your donation, and we can send an acknowledgement if requested.
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