Rebecca Redelsheimer and Nancy Masland announced several professional resources have expressed their interest in collaborating to help families who need help in providing necessary residential placement for their children.
Mission Statement:
Alliance for Families of At-Risk Youth [AFARY] is a group of foundations, programs and Educational Consultants collaborating to help families access needed financial assistance for therapeutic interventions. Founded in 2006, they seek to network each month to share information that will help for-profit programs and foundations become proficient in fund-raising, to better provide resources that will support the health and nurturing of families.
FUNDING RESOURCES FOR FAMILIES
Achievement Transition Group, Inc.:
James Morton james@atg-family.com
406-546-9574 cell
C.H.A.R.T.:
Children's Help and Assistance for Residential Treatment maryannchart@msn.com
520-749-2151 Began in 2006; national non-profit organization to assist families with adopted children(AZ & CO) with S.M.I. 9-13 years old fund placement in an RTC.
Goals: provide knowledge of appropriate RTC, emergency funds, information on state and local funding programs, and family education
Clark Custom Educational Loans:
Shauna Clark, Chelsea Dickinson shauna@customedloans.com
888-755-3079 www.customedloans.com Began in 2003 - works with all families of special needs children and helps find the means to afford quality healthcare.
Cornerstone Education Loans:
Elizabeth Ellison Elizabeth@cornerstoneedloans.com
877-260-2403 Began in 1980, helps families find the best K-12 private student loan possible
Financing4Youth, Inc.:
John Stewart info@financing4youth.com
888-088-0701 Began in 2005, helps families with children K-12 achieve educational goals through special needs and regular boarding schools and colleges
Friends of Families:
Brandi Elliot, Dr. Jim Powell info@friendsoffamilies.org
951-315-8320 Began in the '80s with CEDU parents, works with families of special needs children who are enrolled in a participating program who need extra funding to complete the program . Collateral loan guarantees have a 15 yr. repayment plan
Hope Renews:
Cathy Gilson cbgilson@roadrunner.com
310-476-0258 www.hoperenews.com Began in 2004, a non-profit group who raise money for children (14-24) currently in a program (at least 6 weeks in RTC ,therapeutic boarding school/wilderness/Outdoor therapeutic programs) for mental health and substance abuse problems.
Saving Teens in Crisis Collaborative (STICC):
John Reuben jreuben@savingteens.org
978-852-2144 www.savingteens.org Also consultants: Leslie Goldberg, Marilyn Engleman, Tamara Ancona , Lon Woodbury.
Began as a non-profit in 2004, to help families with children with substance abuse and with funding long term care and support.
Second Nature Scholarship Program:
Leah Halverson leah@snwp.com To help students fund wilderness
Serenity Loans www.serenityloans.com Began to fund families with substance abuse issues.
Star of Life Foundation:
Jeanne Shockley jshockley@staroflife.org 'Helping families saving lives' non-profit
The Alliance for Families of At-Risk Youth (AFARY), founded in 2006, is a group of foundations, programs and Educational Consultants who are seeking to work collaboratively to support the health and nurturing of families in need of therapeutic interventions, information and financial assistance.