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Providing Free Therapy for Foster Youth

Volunteer therapists that stay – for as long as it takes.

VOLUNTEER THERAPISTS

If you can offer one free hour of therapy each week to an individual with experience in foster care, we invite you to volunteer with us!

FOSTER YOUTH & ALUMNI

We offer open-ended, individual psychotherapy—free of charge—to current and former foster youth. Refer yourself or a someone else today.

Our Mission

A Home Within provides transformative mental health care to foster youth, while building the field of the future.

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Featured Update

This May: Awareness, Access, and Anecdotes at AHW 
May is both Foster Care Awareness Month and Mental Health Awareness Month—two movements that, for us, are deeply intertwined. In every community, young people with lived experience of foster care are navigating trauma, loss, and family disruption, and the many long-term impacts those experiences have on their mental health. And much too often, the systems meant to support them fall short...
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2025 Annual Impact Report

Our Chapters

Communities across the country are rallying around foster youth:

650+ volunteers | 29 chapters

23 states | 3,000+ served

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Featured Continuing Education Event

Thursday May 21, 11:00 AM PT
Virtual

More Information Coming Soon!

2 Credits Introductory Psychologists LMHCs MFTs Social Workers LPCs Counselors
Thursday May 21, 11:00 AM PT
Virtual

More Information Coming Soon!

2 Credits Introductory Psychologists LMHCs MFTs Social Workers LPCs Counselors

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More Ways to Get Involved

The relationship—that's the medicine.

- A Home Within Client

It is one of the most rewarding experiences of my clinical career

- A Home Within Volunteer

I am so thankful for this amazing program that has, and does, change my life.

- A Home Within Client

It nourishes me to work with my A Home Within client, to see her come to a place of thriving.

- A Home Within Volunteer

Week after week, we get to be a witness to the pain, we get to be a witness to the joy, we get to be a witness to repair.

- A Home Within Volunteer

At a Glance

30,000 hours of free therapy provided each year.
5000+ clinicians trained in trauma responsive care.
650+ therapists in 29 chapters across 23 states