Our Purpose
111 Project exists to mobilize the church in Hardee, Highlands, and Polk Counties to ensure that every child has a family. If every church had one family that fostered or adopted then there would be no child without a family. Even more so, each child would have a Christian home. If that same church would then wrap around that family, loving and supporting them, we could accomplish our purpose.
Resources for Foster, Adoptive, and Caregiving Families
Foster the Family
There are currently two active gatherings for women caring for vulnerable children. This is an opportunity to connect with women who have walked this journey. You can ask questions, listen to testimonies, and hear from those walking in the same shoes.
TBRI Training for Families
This training is to better equip families to handle behaviors and situations that might arise when serving vulnerable children.
How to Partner
Foster
Have you considered fostering? There is a need for 55 more foster families in our community. One More Child is a faith based licensing agency who would love to give you more information about becoming a foster parent.
Adopt
Have you considered adopting? There are over 25 children waiting to meet their forever home. Without adoption, they will transfer from their foster home to adulthood without a mom or dad. Statistics prove a child who transitions out without being adopted is more likely to end up homeless, incarcerated, a teen parent, and a parent of children who will be also removed. You can change the life of not only one child but also generations. Help break the cycle. Adopt. You can call Heartland for Children to learn more about adopting at Adoption: 863 519-8900 x 223.
Enroll your church
When you enroll your church you are enrolling to learn more about what 111Project does and how to use CarePortal in your church. After receiving your pastor’s blessing we can train a primary point person from your church to oversee the ministry. Together we will serve more children. You will get to be the hands and feet of Jesus as you show up to the doorsteps of bio families, foster families, kinship placements, youth transitioning out, and adopted families supplying tangible items, but more importantly, sharing the Good News. What starts off with delivering a bed to a foster family turns into a relationship established between a family, church, and Jesus.
We look forward to seeing how God can use your church to reach the families all around you.
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