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Happy one year Anniversary to Better Together! We had a wonderful time celebrating at your Ribbon Cutting! Our community is lucky to have an organization like this to help our families facing challenges. Thank you to Bernie Little Distributors for supporting this amazing cause!
**Better Together builds strong families and communities by empowering parents and providing meaningful connections, work opportunities, mentoring, and short-term care for children. Challenges such as job loss, addiction, and homelessness can tear apart families who lack a healthy support system.
Better Together’s family support managers meet with parents, listen to their needs, and help them create and implement a plan to thrive. Volunteer host families provide short-term care of children in safe, loving homes while parents work to get back on track. Mentors offer parents guidance and encouragement. A dedicated team of job coaches connects parents and others to meaningful work opportunities through job fairs, coaching, and business partners.
The goal is to intervene before government services are needed and empower parents with resources and support to keep their families together. Since its founding in 2015, Better Together has served more than 15,000 children, and 98% of those served through hosting and mentoring remain out of the child welfare system. By 2030, Better Together aims to reduce the burden on state foster care by 20%.
Better Together receives referrals from almost 500 community partners, with 40% coming from the Florida Department of Children and Families and strategic partnerships.