Bridge Receiving Center
A healing start for children entering foster care.
Bridge Receiving Center
A healing start for children entering foster care.
There are many problems in the foster care system nationwide. There has been a serious shortage of licensed homes that often leads to the many “bounces” that children just entering foster care often experience. Children often spend their first days and weeks bouncing between the DCYF office, motels, shelters, and emergency care facilities. In addition, children have little chance to get their questions answered, let alone process the recent upheaval in their lives.
We’ve developed a therapeutic transitional residential program in a camp-like setting where children, ages 4 and older, will find an immediate safe place to stay for up to 30 days – or longer, if needed. This extended time gives social workers and the courts time to determine what’s next for the children - a return back home, moving in with relatives/family friends or their first placement in a foster home. Our receiving center in Snohomish County often results in family reunification, the ability to keep siblings together, more successful first placements and fewer multiple placements.
We need your help in order to keep making this vision a reality. We’ll equip you to serve as a volunteer alongside our staff with the children, to understand the importance of trauma-responsive care and spread the word about Bridge Receiving Center. You can shop our Amazon Wish List to provide items the children need. We especially need your financial contributions to keep our Center doors open to every child that needs us.