Oc United Together

FOSTER CARE INITIATIVE-OC United provides resources and support to caregivers, children, and young adults from the foster care system through programs for parents and caregivers (RESPITE) and aged-out foster youth (THRIVE). RESPITE provides support groups, parent trainings, date nights, wellness classes, and trauma trainings to foster, adoptive, and kinship families. We also provide trainings, tools, and classroom interventions to support trauma-sensitive classrooms and educational environments. Our THRIVE (Transitional Homes Recognizing Independence Value and Empowerment) program seeks to equip young adults exiting the foster care system for self-sufficiency by providing: housing, life skills, financial literacy, access to employment opportunities, therapeutic/spiritual support, mentoring, and a community in which to belong.

Serve the vulnerable within the community by offering various services such as traumawise training and workshop, needs assessment, resource family support, after-school programs, caregiver training

NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE-OC United partners with a local school, businesses, and volunteers to develop a united community by empowering parents and children through after-school programming, mentorship, and neighborhood collaborations. OC United hosts a twice a week after-school program providing homework tutoring, mentoring, and character development to 40 elementary students. We also provide a summer school program, SOLful, which provides educationally at-risk elementary students (1st-6th) with academic and creative activities for students to help close the learning gap in the summer.