To create a Christ-centered intergenerational community with affordable housing for families fostering or adopting from foster care, and for seniors who serve as honorary grandparents, strengthening the support system for all three generations.
Youth who age out of foster care face steep odds.
Being removed from home is deeply traumatic. Children are often separated from siblings, schools, and friends. Many endure multiple placements, and the trauma compounds.
51 Useful Aging Out of Foster Care Statistics / Social Race Media, National Foster Youth Institute, 2017.
Treehouse shows how neighborhoods can change lives.
Our model draws on Treehouse Community in Easthampton, MA, where outcomes for children far surpass national averages for foster youth.
A whole neighborhood built around a child's healing.
Foster and adoptive families and honorary grandparents live side by side, creating a strong, lasting support system for every member. Seniors pour their gifts into the children, and find renewed meaning and connection in return.
Parents are less stressed and better equipped. Seniors avoid loneliness and support one another. Children are surrounded by people devoted to their wellbeing.
Many hands, one loving community.
Spaces designed for bonding and belonging.
A gathering place at the heart of the neighborhood, where children discover their gifts, families share meals, and neighbors become family.
Indoors
- Gathering space for weekly meals
- Large community kitchen
- Arts & crafts room
- Library
- Music room
- Chapel
Outdoors
- Playground
- Bocce ball
- Shuffleboard
- Volleyball court
- Basketball court
There's a place for you in this story.
Become part of the solution for children who have experienced foster care.
Your gift helps build a neighborhood where healing happens every single day.