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The mission of Beyond the Baby Blues is to provide support to women experiencing perinatal depression and/or anxiety in the context of a therapeutic group that includes their babies. We also provide support and education to the public and other professionals regarding issues that face families experiencing postpartum depression.

Our mission is to empower, safeguard and serve youth, ages 18-24, who are experiencing homelessness, disconnection and exploitation in the Greater Washington region with housing, education, wrap-around support services, workforce readiness training and job placement support to help them get back and stay on track. We envision a region where all youth experiencing homelessness are “at home” safe, secure and thriving.

The mission of the DC LGBTQ+ Community Center is to celebrate, strengthen, and support community among the LGBTQ+ residents and organizations of Metropolitan Washington, DC.

Doing Good Together™ empowers families to raise caring, engaged children by offering unique programs and events, valuable services, and fun activities that promote kindness and giving.We are a national nonprofit based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and offer a variety of programs and unique services, including city-specific monthly listings of family-friendly volunteer opportunities in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota; Seattle, Washington; Silicon Valley, California; Boston, Massachusetts; and New York City, New York.DGT™ also consults with nonprofits to offer customized education and reflection materials to deepen the volunteering experience and encourage future volunteering

CASA of St. Louis advocates for children in foster care in St. Louis by representing their best interests in court and in the community. We train and empower community volunteers to serve as Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA volunteers) for cases before the family courts in St. Louis City and St. Louis County. Each case involves children in the foster care system who have been removed from their home due to abuse and neglect. Our advocacy helps children who have experienced abuse and neglect heal from trauma, progress in school, participate in childhood activities, and achieve the best possible outcome and a permanent home.

Founded in 2012, Postpartum Society of Florida (PPSF) volunteers are committed and passionate about easing the transition from pregnancy to parenthood in the perinatal period through education, preparation, and support. Our goal is to reduce overall incidence of PMADs in the perinatal population (currently 1 in 5 women suffer a PMAD or "postpartum depression" as it is popularly termed) quality education, community building, and reduction of isolation and escalation of crisis. Through our programs such helpp scholarship for providers (34 providers trained in PMADs in 17 counties), SisterMom mentorship training (12 volunteers trained in 8 counties), mitunes: mother-infant music (more than 2,000 copies distributed in west coast Florida and online), web-based perinatal support locator (new! ), and our outstanding free mother-to-mother peer support groups and warmlines in the Sarasota/Bradenton area (more than 2,000 personal contacts per year), we can making powerful strides toward improving maternal (and paternal! ) - infant health and wellness in the state of Florida. This is essential work for Florida families, but *we cannot do it alone.* Will you please consider helping support our commitment to maternal health & wellness? We would be so grateful. . . Thank you.

The mission of jewish family service of greater new orleans is to preserve strengthen, and enhance the well-being and self-sufficiency of individuals and families at every stage of life. Jfs provides behavioral health programs such as counseling for individuals, couples, families and groups, case management, information and referral and teen suicide prevention. It also offers programs to keep seniors in the community such as emergency response home monitoring services.

First3Years nurtures early relational and mental health of infants and toddlers by collaborating with caregivers, parents and professionals across Texas to cultivate strong early childhood systems, educate our workforce, and advance best practices.Our programs are designed to:• Build awareness of the critical importance of the first three years of life. • Enhance the quality of relationships between infants/toddlers and their caregivers.• Advocate for policies and practices that support the healthy development of young children.• Educate early childhood professionals in best practices

To provide children and youth in Arizona a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families. We do this through prevention, intervention and education programs designed to support the thousands of children and families who may be at risk. All of our work centers on our vision of safe kids…strong families.

The mission of Utah Youth Village is to change and improve the lives of troubled, neglected and abused children and youth, without regard to race, color, national origin or religious preference and to establish and aid all those who would join in this endeavor.To this end, Utah Youth Village will: Provide education to children and youth Teach youth to respect themselves and others Build self-worth Teach youth to understand consequences and make wise decisions Teach youth life-enabling skills Aid and assist in the prevention of juvenile delinquency Serve as advocates for children's needs and concerns Protect children and youth from abuse, neglect and negative influences in their lives Actively support reunification of the child with the family whenever possible. The cornerstone of the Village's treatment philosophy is the profound value of the family in the emotional well-being of a child. The primary goal of treatment is to restore healthy parent-child relationships whenever feasible.Youth who have religious inclinations will be encouraged to be active in the faith of their choice. Youth will be taught about nutrition, exercise and hygiene.We will actively advocate for children and not allow society to ignore or diminish the legitimate needs of children and youth.

Children's Service Society of Utah empowers families, caregivers, and professionals through services supporting the safety and well-being of children.

At Listen and Talk, our mission is to teach children who are deaf or hard of hearing to communicate and learn through listening and spoken language. With the aid of advanced hearing technology and committed families involved in specialized programs provided by Listen and Talk, almost all children with hearing loss can learn to listen and use spoken language, allowing them to fully participate in a hearing world. Listen and Talk achieves these remarkable results by combining proven auditory-based educational methods with the use of advanced hearing technology including: digital/programmable hearing aids, cochlear implants, personal FM systems, and sound field systems for classrooms. For optimal success, we strive to apply our teaching methods to children in infancy-as soon as they are identified with hearing loss. Most Listen and Talk "graduates": Enter their neighborhood school by kindergarten, Learn and compete side-by-side with peers in regular classrooms, Converse and learn through spoken and written language, Reach their full language and learning potential and fully integrate into the wider community. Lifelong goals for each child include: The ability to learn and gain information through listening,the ability to effectively communicate without the need for an interpreter, the ability to think and reason independently, the use of age-appropriate literacy skills for communication, learning and enjoyment, intelligible speech, problem solving skills, and social engagement.