Little Blue House

The main goal we have for our families is self-sufficiency. Everything we do is family-by-family and no two families are alike. We see trends and we create our platforms around those trends. We have a family-to-family mentoring program that puts low-income, TANF-eligible parents in the same room as middle class parents and they talk about their kids and how they solve problems. We have an Out-of-School Time program that is based on our extensive experience with keeping vulnerable children and youth off drugs, out of jail, and in school.

Parents learn to be educational advocates for their children. Our social worker helps connect families to the welfare services they may need, so that we can focus on the well-being needs of the whole family. Our success with children is NOT based on “what” we do but “HOW” we do it. There are only two things required of every child who participates in the LBH programs: they must “try” and they must “learn”.  If they try, they’ll learn.

Our ambition and program design is to help every family learn “how” to solve its own problems with every mom (or head of household) acting as education advocate for each child in that family.  Other programs that work with families concentrate on “what” the family does.  We only want to understand “what” a family does so we can show /teach the family “HOW” to change the influences limiting the family’s social/economic development.

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