Create a family legacy and break generational cycles of homelessness, child abuse and poverty by providing affordable transitional housing with independent living skills and a hand-up to our communities, youth, and future.

Put your name on, honor or memorialize a loved one by naming and apartment in our Smith Brothers Family Foundation Complex.

Place of Hope remains steadfast in family preservation and child abuse prevention. Since 2001, through the generosity of people like you, Place of Hope has served over 150,000 children, youth and families providing safe and stable housing, independent living programming, and family strengthening resources to break the generational cycle of child abuse, homelessness and child exploitation.

Place of Hope specializes in keeping siblings together. Most often children in foster care are separated from their siblings, adding additional trauma to an already traumatic experience. Since 2001, with your support, we have kept together nearly 700 siblings who otherwise would have been separated in this tumultuous time!

Place of Hope's Paxson Campus, Sam & Connie Frankino KidSanctuary Campus, and Bender Family Stuart Campus locations provide faith-based family-style Neighborhood Foster Care (level 6) in our unique family cottages, with placement priority given to large sibling groups and other special needs ("hard to place") children in foster care in need of consistent, structured, family-based care (as long as needed). These family cottages are located within unique, safe, and serene residential neighborhoods. Since 2001, because of Marla Paxson, Connie Frankino, John & Bobbi Erbey and so many others like them, we have been able to serve nearly 3,500 foster children modeling for them safety, love, family, accountability, and hope for a brighter future.

Together, with you through Villages of Hope we are serving more than ever before single moms with dependent children facing imminent homelessness, at risk of losing her child(ren) and who need affordable transitional and safe housing with independent living services and programs bridging her into a healthy and stable environment (over 18 years old). Additionally, our unique, safe and serene maternity home, JoAnn's Cottage provides professional case management, independent living services, parenting classes, access to quality, comprehensive medical care, and comprehensive support services to ensure safety and wellbeing of new mother and mothers to be (under 18 years old).

Because they need and deserve the best therapeutic care, we privately raise critical funds to provide transformational high-quality targeted therapy, programs, and tailored case management for our survivors of child exploitation and human trafficking.

Our robust Education, Enrichment and Wellness programs equip our youth with essential care and services, life skills education, mentoring and tutoring, health, wellness, career and leadership classes, trades immersion, college prep and more! Every child eligible to graduate high school while in care at Place of Hope has graduated and nearly every single one has gone on to post-secondary education or a trade!

Through our Shade Tree Family Outreach Program, we are reaching the masses providing family outreach and intervention programs, family strengthening initiatives and critical services to families and children navigating the child welfare system. Last year we increased our capacity to serve from blessing tens of thousands each year, to over 135,000 children, youth and families just last year!

EVERY DOLLAR AT $1,000 AND UNDER WILL BE MATCHED BY AN ANONYMOUS DONOR WHO IS HERE TONIGHT.

Child exploitation and human trafficking must be stopped before it can happen. That is only possible through community outreach, human trafficking education presentations, social awareness events, and you! We are shining a light in the darkness so that human trafficking can no longer hide in plain sight. We have educated over 90,000 community members on how to spot and safely report human trafficking, we have partnered with local and state organizations and agencies like the FL Attorney General and the FL Association of Crime Stoppers to help bring education and resources to identify, stabilize and recover victims of human trafficking.

Your donation will help paint the basketball court at the Paxson Campus. Thanks to the Paxson's friends at Califawnia & Art Mobbb!

Your donation provides critical essential items for our family strengthening program, Shade Tree Family Outreach like new shoes, socks, underwear, diapers, wipes, and formula, car seats, pack and plays and more!