Our Mission, Vision, Values, And History
Our Mission
Empowering children and families to achieve their fullest potential for connection through therapy, education and advocacy.
Our Vision
Every child will belong to a connected and safe family, and Oklahoma will be a state in which children who have experienced trauma can thrive in all environments.
Our Values
Relationship
It is within relationship life is most fully lived and known.
Family
People thrive best in healthy families.
Hope
Hope, the expectation of a positive future, is our source of joy and strength.
Our History
Family Hope House was founded in 2012, by two mental health clinicians after realizing the lack of appropriate mental health resources and support for children in the foster care system and the families who care for them.
Foster parents were again and again saying they were scared to continue to raise the children in their care without support, but still completely devoted to caring for children who otherwise would be in shelters or institutional care.
These parents were begging for help, both for themselves and the children in their care.
Starting with one simple presentation for a foster and adoptive parent support group in 2012, Family Hope House has been a resource for this very special group of people.
Family Hope House Strives to lead the way for the mental health community in its approach to meeting the needs of adoptive, guardianship, and foster families.
All services provided by FHH are trauma-informed and adoption competent. Simply put, this means the consumer’s needs and symptoms are conceptualized through the lens of their adverse experiences, as well as the unique factors that play into their family and identity formation. Engaging in both the local and national conversation surrounding adoption and foster care support, Family Hope House is able to create programing aimed at meeting the needs that are most urgent and helpful within this special population.
Family Hope House is dedicated to the strengthening and development of healthy families, regardless of makeup, through a specific focus on forming healthy attachments, resolving trauma, and enhancing parent-child relationships with three areas of focus: therapy, education, and advocacy.