Hope Family Ranch

Hope Family Ranch/HomeYou Can Have A Family No Matter Where You Are!

FOREVER FAMILY

James 1:27 Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plightHope Family Ranch/HomeMeet Dayn & Brandon

Hope Family Ranch/HomeVISION: Remembering the Orphans

Hope Family Ranch/Home is a continuing family community concept for those who have no family after foster care drops them out of the system. A continuing family community a network of support and community.

Hope Family Ranch/HomeA Hope Family Ranch Child Life Cycle"

Family relationships for any young person forgotten and/or aging out of the foster care system.

Becomes part of a FOREVER FAMILY (Adoption remains a preferred option)

Receives structure, guidance and life skills.

Meets the need for family relationships the rest of their life.

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None will be alone for a birthday or major holiday.

Whether in person or by letter, card or phone call they will be loved.

All will have nurturing, mentoring and life coaching available as long as they wish to participate.

Our goal, like any God honoring ministry, is to show the true love of Jesus and be the family He wants us to be. They will always be loved.

Hope Family Ranch/HomeThe business Hope Family Ranch will have equine therapy, counseling, life coaching, training, and apprentice work programs. These equip the Hope Family Ranch families prepare each young person to be productive and satisfied with life after foster care.

Hope Family Ranch/HomeThe Hope Family Ranch business requires seed money. There are basically three main routes:1. Grants, gifts, donations (fund raising) 2. Loans 3. Capital Investment

The Hope Family Ranch business provides marketable products in: Agribusiness: Greenhouse, GardensAquaponicsAnimal Husbandry

Hope Family Ranch/HomeA Hope Family Home is a regular foster home connected with a Hope Family Ranch to equip for a fulfilling lifestyle.

This will help generate revenue to place in a personal saving funds for the future, to understand stewardship and to connect in lifelong family relationships.

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Our First Fund Raising EventHope Family Ranch/Home

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LifeCoach321, Inc. Lifestyle Equipping

Dave & Diane Burwell are equipping marriages, families and Kingdom businesses with the tools to live a Godly Spirit led lifestyle

www.LifeCoach321.com

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There is something magical about working with horses. They create deep emotional connections and generate a healing touch that helps overcome the problems and rough terrain of life. Their strength and majesty have been proven to improve chronic illness, create confidence and remove the strongholds that prevent us from living to our fullest potential.

www.FreedomTrails.orgHope Family RanchAgri-Enterprise Business

Hope Family RanchAquaponics

In a 20 x 30 covered area You can grow: up to1,400 lbs. of fishand more than3,600 heads of organic lettuce(or other vegetables) per year.

Tomatoes, spinach, lettuce and other vegetables can grown with no soil and without extra fertilizers, as the fish and vegetables "feed" each other.

Teach them how to fish. Not just fishermen, but fishers of men.Hope Family Ranch

Animal Husbandry, Poultry, Eggs

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Hope Family Ranch/HomeAdvisory Board* There are more than 500,000 children and youth in foster care in the U.S.; approximately 20,000 youth age out or emancipate from foster care each year. * Up to 50% of former foster/probation youth become homeless within the first 18 months of emancipation. * Fifty-eight percent (58%) of all young adults accessing federally funded youth shelters in 1997 had previously been in foster care. * Less than half of former foster youth are employed 2.5-4 years after leaving foster care, and only 38% have maintained employment for at least one year. * Youth in foster care are 44% less likely to graduate from high school and after emancipation, 40 50 percent never complete high school. * Girls in foster care are six times more likely to give birth before the age of 21 than the general population. * Sixty percent (60%) of women who emancipate from foster care become parents within 2.5-4 years after exiting care. * Parents with a history of foster care are almost twice as likely as parents with no such history to see their own children placed in foster care or become homeless.

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* There are more than 500,000 children and youth in foster care in the U.S.; approximately 20,000 youth age out or emancipate from foster care each year. * Up to 50% of former foster/probation youth become homeless within the first 18 months of emancipation. * Fifty-eight percent (58%) of all young adults accessing federally funded youth shelters in 1997 had previously been in foster care. * Less than half of former foster youth are employed 2.5-4 years after leaving foster care, and only 38% have maintained employment for at least one year. * Youth in foster care are 44% less likely to graduate from high school and after emancipation, 40 50 percent never complete high school. * Girls in foster care are six times more likely to give birth before the age of 21 than the general population. * Sixty percent (60%) of women who emancipate from foster care become parents within 2.5-4 years after exiting care. * Parents with a history of foster care are almost twice as likely as parents with no such history to see their own children placed in foster care or become homeless.

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FOSTER CARE STATISTICS

US Youth in Foster Care:> 500,000Age Out per Year:E 20,000Homeless in 18 months50%In Youth Shelters:58%Maintained Job over 1 Year 38%Graduate High school56%Aged Out GEDs45%Before Age 21 Births6 X AverageAged Out; Parents in 2.5 yrs60%Aged Out in Prison60%

* There are more than 500,000 children and youth in foster care in the U.S.; approximately 20,000 youth age out or emancipate from foster care each year. * Up to 50% of former foster/probation youth become homeless within the first 18 months of emancipation. * Fifty-eight percent (58%) of all young adults accessing federally funded youth shelters in 1997 had previously been in foster care. * Less than half of former foster youth are employed 2.5-4 years after leaving foster care, and only 38% have maintained employment for at least one year. * Youth in foster care are 44% less likely to graduate from high school and after emancipation, 40 50 percent never complete high school. * Girls in foster care are six times more likely to give birth before the age of 21 than the general population. * Sixty percent (60%) of women who emancipate from foster care become parents within 2.5-4 years after exiting care. * Parents with a history of foster care are almost twice as likely as parents with no such history to see their own children placed in foster care or become homeless.

19Hope Family Ranch/Home"40% of the children in foster care will age out of the system having no family or prospects. Many of them will end up on the streets and ultimately in prison.

Parents with a history of foster care are almost twice as likely as parents with no such history to see their own children placed in foster care or become homeless.

100% of us are called to help, but only 4% of us will open our homes to the forgotten children in the foster care system.

If you are in the 96%, there is something you can do. "

* There are more than 500,000 children and youth in foster care in the U.S.; approximately 20,000 youth age out or emancipate from foster care each year. * Up to 50% of former foster/probation youth become homeless within the first 18 months of emancipation. * Fifty-eight percent (58%) of all young adults accessing federally funded youth shelters in 1997 had previously been in foster care. * Less than half of former foster youth are employed 2.5-4 years after leaving foster care, and only 38% have maintained employment for at least one year. * Youth in foster care are 44% less likely to graduate from high school and after emancipation, 40 50 percent never complete high school. * Girls in foster care are six times more likely to give birth before the age of 21 than the general population. * Sixty percent (60%) of women who emancipate from foster care become parents within 2.5-4 years after exiting care. * Parents with a history of foster care are almost twice as likely as parents with no such history to see their own children placed in foster care or become homeless.

20Hope Family Ranch/HomeMatthew 25:40 And the King will reply to them, Truly I tell you, in so far as you did it for one of the least [in the estimation of men] of these My brethren, you did it for Me.

Romans 8:15 For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons