Welcome to Adopt-A-Family’s Blog!
In this section, you will find the most relevant news about Adopt-A-Family’s funding partners, agency highlights, family success stories, and event updates.
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30th of July 2025
Adopt-A-Family’s 2024 Annual Report: By The Numbers
Our 2024 Annual Report is live! We are grateful to the countless donors, volunteers, nonprofit partners, and clients who supported our work and mission in the 2024 fiscal year. Check out some key numbers from the report below! 1,216 This is the total number of families we served in the 2024 fiscal year. Within these […]
17th of July 2025
Disability Pride Month
In July 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law. This landmark piece of legislation worked towards creating equal opportunities and enshrining equal rights for the over 70 million Americans living with a disability. To commemorate this historic moment, July is recognized as Disability Pride Month. This celebration promotes disability culture and visibility, […]
28th of May 2025
Project Grow Graduation: Class of 2025
Adopt-A-Family recently celebrated eleven fifth grade students who graduated from our Project Grow afterschool program and will be moving on to middle school in the fall. The beautiful May evening started with a graduation ceremony, where students heard wise words from Adopt-A-Family CEO Matt Constantine, Lake Worth Middle School Principal Caelethia Taylor, Youth Success Program […]
21st of May 2025
Mental Health Awareness Month
Mental Health Awareness Month May is Mental Health Awareness Month. At Adopt-A-Family (AAF), we know that housing insecurity and homelessness can cause and exacerbate mental health challenges. The families that come through our doors have all experienced the stress of housing instability, and often they have experienced multiple additional traumas that impact their mental […]
26th of September 2024
Welcome, 2024-25 Literacy AmeriCorps Members!
We would like to extend a warm welcome to our 2024-25 Literacy AmeriCorps members for Project Grow, Ayanna Hendricks (left) and Gaby Barber (right). Throughout the school year, they will work individually with the elementary school students enrolled in Project Grow’s afterschool program, providing the children with one-on-one reading sessions. Ayanna and Gaby will work […]
16th of August 2024
Thank You for Equipping Agency Students for the 2024-25 School Year!
As part of our mission to provide stability to local families with children, Adopt-A-Family is dedicated to equipping the students we serve for success in school, particularly at the start of each new school year. We are grateful that our community of supporters shares this vision and regularly provides tangible assistance to students across all […]
31st of May 2024
May is Mental Health Awareness Month
Adopt-A-Family of the Palm Beaches is helping to break the cycle of family homelessness by eliminating barriers that often prevent clients with mental health challenges from getting the care they need to stabilize and thrive. For 40 years, Adopt-A-Family has served the Palm Beach County community by providing housing-focused services to low-income families with minor […]
23rd of May 2024
Project Grow Graduation
Project Grow’s Inaugural Graduation Celebration A formal celebration of Project Grow’s graduates has been on Adopt-A-Family’s wish list for years, and on May 16, the agency hosted its inaugural Project Grow Graduation. The ceremony was designed to celebrate the achievements of the program’s fifth grade students as they transition out of the program, out […]
20th of December 2023
Gift Giving Event at the Homeless Resource Center For families experiencing an episode of homelessness, the holiday season can be especially difficult. Without a place to call home or resources to purchase gifts, parents feel a heavy burden, desperately wanting to provide their children with the joy of the holiday season. Sensing this struggle […]
22nd of November 2023
Adopt-A-Family Celebrates 40 Years In 1983, three Palm Beach County women heard a radio story about a family of four who had become homeless after exhausting their savings on medical bills. Determined to help the family get back on their feet, the women recruited members of the community to “adopt” the family […]