A Family's Hope for Tomorrow is in Healing Young Hearts Today
Welcome to our
virtual home. We are Kids hurt too, a peer support and mentoring program for orphans, foster children, and children of divorce.
Parent loss devastates children and families. It may lead to child abuse as
families struggle with adjusting to unwanted changes. The death, divorce, or
abandonment of one or both parents may result in health, mental health, and
behavior problems as children's coping mechanisms are overwhelmed by the
stress of a major life change. When a parent is missing, it tends to create
a social stigma that blocks families from receiving the community support
they need in a time of crisis.
Our programs prevent child abuse by bringing families closer together in a time of tragedy and loss and by connecting them to community resources. We improve children's health and behavior by easing the suffering and pain that accompanies parent loss. Kids hurt too reduces the stigma on parent loss by normalizing children's grief and giving them access to a caring community.
Check out our wish list and hope for the future of Kids hurt too at What's new.