Healing Families in Their Homes

Powerful, destructive forces are tearing our families apart.

Boys Town’s In-Home Family Services^SM program is providing parents with the skills they need to ward off destructive behaviors  and create a safe and successful home life for their children.

Sharon Miller was one such mother in need of help. As shown in a recent newscast by WOWT, the Bellevue woman tells how the round-the-clock services rescued her and her children. Watch the video.

Before In-Home Family Services^SM, Miller might have been deemed unable to care for her children, and they may have been removed from her home. As Father Steven Boes, National Executive Director of Boys Town, explains in his interview with WOWT, “Studies nationwide say if you can help a child at home and help the child have a strong relationship with their parents, there are positive lifelong implications to that.”

Boys Town’s goal is to provide care to more children and families in their homes because it is better for the families – and taxpayers. Children receiving care at homes for seven months cost about $7,000, while out-of-home care can cost up to $40,000 a year.

Last year, Boys Town served 24,000 children and 75 percent of them were living in their own homes. Learn more about Boys Town In-Home Family Services^SM and if you want to help us continue to provide in-home care to children and families, please donate today!