A Family's Hope for Tomorrow is in Healing Young Hearts Today
Welcome to our virtual home. We are Kids hurt too, a peer support and mentoring program for orphans, foster children, and children separated from one or both parents due to divorce, incarceration, or other causes. Parent loss devastates children and families. It may lead to child abuse as families struggle with adjusting to unwanted changes. The death of or separation from one or both parents may result in health, mental health, and behavior problems as children's coping mechanisms are overwhelmed by the stress of a major life change. When a parent is missing, it tends to create a social stigma that blocks families from receiving the community support they need in a time of crisis, leaving them vulnerable to abuse, neglect, or an inability to manage their needs.
Our programs strengthen families, bringing them closer in a time of tragic loss and engaging them in needed community resources. We improve children's health and behavior by easing the suffering and pain that accompanies parent loss. Kids hurt too reduces the stigma on parent loss, normalizing children's grief and giving them a caring community.
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