"Eagles Nest"

Sibling Care Campus

30% or less of siblings get to stay together upon entering foster care due to a lack of bed space to keep them together. Once separated they are rarely brought back together, even in adoption. This separation can damage or destroy the strongest relational bond these children have. Ark of Hope For Children recognizes that the sibling bond must be respected and every effort taken to keep them together.

Ark of Hope For Children has been purchasing a large property in High Springs, Florida that will become our “Eagles Nest” community allowing siblings to live together while living in domestic orphan care. We plan to build six single family style homes where we will provide Christ-focused love and care for siblings living in foster care. Our cluster of homes will provide ample bed space on one property to keep foster siblings together, if not in the same house then at least on the same property.

Each home will care for 6 children in friendly, homelike settings. Each home will be staffed by a pair of on-staff foster parents that will have made commitments of one to three years with Ark of Hope For Children. For our house parents we will provide, income, food, insurance and a vehicle for each home. A pair of respite parents will rotate through the homes to provide regular rest breaks for our house parents.

An atmosphere will be provided in each home conducive to healing and education preparing each child for the time they will either return to their mended birth home, adoptive homes or our “Wings” transitional living homes. Children will have the opportunities to care for farm animals, ride horses, swim, grow vegetables in their own gardens, care for fruit trees in our “Adopt An Acre” donor orchard, group Bible time and prayer, learn musical skills, team sports and fun within the safety of our Ark of Hope environment.