Supporting Families & Building Community

Our Mission

Alongside Families exists to connect isolated families to local church communities that champion family preservation and thriving.

THE PROBLEM

Families are being broken apart in our community. When a parent who is isolated faces a crisis such as hospitalization or homelessness, their child may enter the foster care system simply because the family lacks a safety net of support.

OUR RESPONSE

A proven church-led, volunteer-driven, professionally-supported model that provides a dignifying way for parents to ask for and get help before abuse or neglect ever occurs, preventing a child from unnecessarily entering foster care during a family crisis.

WHAT WE DO

We provide safe, loving homes with volunteer Host Families in partner churches where parents in the greater Charlotte and Asheville, NC areas may have their children cared for temporarily while seeking to restore stability in their lives.

We build lasting relationships that move a family from isolated to surrounded by loving community. Learn more about our model.

WHAT IF...

We could stop child abuse and neglect before it starts?
Children could be kept safe during times of family crisis without unnecessarily entering the foster care system?
It was a dignifying experience for parents to ask for and get help?
Parents were connected to support instead of socially isolated?
The Body of Christ stood in the gap for family preservation?