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15275 Collier Blvd, Suite 201-284
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Better Together is on a mission to ensure everyone has someone to call when life gets difficult. When families feel supported, they grow stronger, and strong families make strong communities. The innovative Better Together model is a powerful one-two punch that reduces the need for foster care by addressing the root causes of poverty, child neglect, family breakdown, and dependence through two programs: Better Families and Better Jobs. In the Better Families program, volunteer host families temporarily care for children on a short-term basis while their parents work through a crisis. The parents may be struggling due to unemployment, homelessness, addiction, isolation, mental health issues or sudden medical issues. These families do not want to separate but are suffering alone and cannot navigate their current crisis and care for their children at the same time. With no support system, they run out of options and are forced to consider foster care. This is where Better Together steps in. The Better Families program has proven that these challenges can be overcome, all while keeping families together, with a supportive team and community in place. Family advocates, or mentors, work with parents through crisis situations, offering the support system so many isolated families lack. Becoming like family, these volunteers deeply invest to transform lives and build lifelong relationships. Better Together family care coordinators provide professional guidance along the way. Since the organization’s founding in 2015, Better Together has served over 5,400 children across 16 Florida counties and kept 98% out of foster care. When the Better Together team realized that 76% of the families they serve had crises that could be traced to job loss, Better Together created the Better Jobs program. Better Jobs empowers people to find employment, provide loving, safe, and supportive foundations for their children, become engaged members of their community, and reach their full potential as human beings. The organization partners with local churches as well as community organizations to host job fairs and equip volunteers with the knowledge to support members of their community struggling with job loss. The job fairs offer resources such as: resume assistance, job coaching, interview attire, and most importantly, friendship and encouragement. The ministry includes job coaching opportunities between job fairs to provide help to job seekers year-round. Through Better Jobs, more than 42,000 Americans have connected with employers across 23 states. A dedicated network of volunteers, businesses, and community partners, recruited mostly through church partners nationwide, make this all possible. Better Together receives no public funding. The organization is 100% privately funded, which has been vital to helping the team harness the power of this network to serve our most vulnerable neighbors. The organization welcomes additional partners and volunteers to help strengthen the local community and keep families together. Learn more or connect with the organization at bettertogetherus.org.
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