Transformations By Amarillo Angels

We desire to change the way children, youth and families experience the foster care system in the Panhandle and South Plains of Texas. By providing consistent and tangible, essential support through our Love Box program for families that foster, children and youth experience extended placement longevity which in turn allows time for the traumatized brains to heal. This support is vital to reduce stress levels in the home and to offer community support to every single member of these amazing families. When children stay in placement longer their educational and emotional outcomes are like to improve which impacts the likelihood of their graduating from high school.

Our Dare to Dream mentoring program supports youth ages 11-22 as they navigate and explore the possibilities for their future. It is our desire that each youth in foster care in our area will eventually have a mentor who will walk alongside them and help them create a sustainable plan for their future independent living. This will offset the grim statistics that 97% of youth who leave care at 18 face.

Children in foster care move an average of seven times every two years. Each time they move they can regress in their educational attainment four to six months. 50% of all youth who leave foster care will be unemployed in their early 20's. We know that only 50% of foster youth will graduate from high school. Only 3% will take advantage of the college tuition waiver provided by the state of Texas. Of the 97% who do not take advantage of the tuition waiver, 2/3 will be homeless, incarcerated, trafficked or dead within a year.

Our Love Box program provides the one thing that families that foster say they need to keep their homes open - more support. When homes stay open and have support for every person in the home, children experiencing foster care won't have to move. The less they move the more likely they are to stay on grade level (or get to grade level) academically.

Our Dare to Dream Mentoring program is designed to support youth as they prepare their plan for the future.

Amarillo Angels has amazing community support - both financially and volunteers. We have two case manager's on staff who manage our programs - recruitment, onboarding, training, providing resources, tracking data etc.
We have a dedicated working board who assists our Executive Director and case management team with all aspects of the work - marketing, financial, program support, community engagement, volunteer recruitment, partnerships, and board development.

Community members also volunteer to provide additional support on committees.

We are part of National Angels who also provide support for our organization.

We have provided an average of 2.7 Love Boxes a day since we launched to the public in 2017. Families tell us that they would not be able to do what they do without our support.

Our mentoring program is new and small but very impactful in the lives of those being mentored.