Hope Bridge Home
For at-risk Children and Youths.
The Hope Bridge Homes for children is a ministry of Apostolic Bridge Builders, Inc and a compassionate Christ-centered home that builds bridges among abandoned, challenged, and forgotten children and hope for a better future. We provide care for the child’s safety, welfare, awareness, knowledge, advocacy, transformation, and healing to obtain solutions amid dark realities.
Hope Bridge Home cares for boys and girl’s group’s ages 7-17, including siblings,
enabling them to stay together and be closer to their immediate family. At the
same time, they work on building healthy relationships and restoring the broken
family unit.
Mission: Hope Bridge Children Home’s mission is to be a natural overflow of grace that gives and serves by providing hope, nurture, safety, security, and therapeutic support in children’s home facilities that promote healing and meets the needs of boys and girls subjected to trauma, abuse, abandonment, neglect, and poverty.
Facts:
- 48 seconds: In 2019, 651,505 children were victims of abuse or neglect: on average, a child is abused or neglected every 48 seconds in America, 1,785 each day.2
- 250k: More than half of all child maltreatment cases in 2019 involved children who were six years old or younger, with 14.9 percent of
- cases involving infants under one.3 Of these children, 251,359 entered foster care.4
- 63%: Neglect, often a proxy for the consequences of poverty, was the most common reason for children entering the child welfare system—associated
- with a child’s removal in 63 percent of cases.
- 10%: Issues related to unsafe or substandard housing were associated with 10 percent of child removals.5
- 34%: Parental drug abuse is partly responsible for 34 percent of child removals, while alcohol abuse played a role in 5 percent of child removals.6
- A common misconception is that physical and sexual abuse are the primary drivers of child welfare involvement, though these serious forms of abuse
- factor into a smaller portion of cases. Physical abuse was associated with 13 percent of removals, and sexual abuse with four percent.7
- Most vulnerable: Children in foster care are among the most vulnerable children in America.
- 41%: There were 423,997 children in care in 2019, 41 percent of whom were under the age of six.8
- 19.6 months: These children spend an average of 19.6 months in foster care, with 14 percent spending more than three years in the system.9
- Race: Children of color, particularly Black and American Indian/Alaska Native children, are dramatically overrepresented in the child welfare system.
- Of every 1,000 white children in the United States, 5.2 are in foster care, compared with 9.9 of every 1,000 Black children and 16.9 of every 1,000 American Indian/Alaska Native children.10
- 80%: The rate of anxiety and depression among teens in foster care is notably high, with up to 80% of children in foster care experiencing an anxiety disorder, depression, and other mental health issues before they turn 18.
- 90%: Up to 90% of foster youth have experienced trauma and abuse in their lifetime. This can lead to mental health problems, which in turn can lead to substance abuse.
- 49% of foster youth reported that they had tried drugs.
- It is estimated that 35% of foster care children are addicted to drugs or alcohol.
- Up to 65% of foster youth in some states age out of the system without a permanent home to return to when they turn 18.
- And more than 20% of teens in some states are homeless after they age out of the system.
These statistics make our hearts at HopeBridgeHome bleed! If these stats don’t move us, nothing will! We were part of that statistic and did experience similar backgrounds and mayhem in our upbringing. Victorious today, thank God! We want to give hope and purpose–be the bridge between the troubled and triumphant, overtaken and overcome.
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Apostolic Bridge Builders, Inc., a 501 (c)3 non-profit org, DBA, HOPE BRIDGE HOME. P.O. Box 14841, Austin, TX 78761
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