For 30 years, our community has built the field we want to be available to our clients. If you or someone you know has lived experience of foster care and wants to connect with a pro bono therapist through A Home Within, fill out the referral form below to get started.
We connect people who have experienced foster care with with a licensed therapist
to provide open-ended, individual psychotherapy, free of charge.
Anyone can make a referral, and anyone who is eligible for our services can refer themselves.
A Home Within staff will contact you by email within five business days for more detailed information. Keep an eye out for an email from admin@ahomewithin.org with instructions on next steps. We will work to identify a volunteer therapist who is a good fit for your therapeutic goals, then connect you with that therapist to begin sessions.
Our volunteers donate one 50-minute therapy session per week in a private practice setting. They do not provide continuous crisis intervention, emergency services, intensive outpatient services, after-hours support, court reports, ESA letters, family therapy, care coordination, and/or complex case management services.
For additional questions, contact Grace Manger, National Program Director, at grace@ahomewithin.org.
Thank you for doing such amazing work. I have had an A Home Within therapist for over 10 years now and he has transformed my life. I would not be where I am today without him. I still have weekly sessions. I hope to one day be one of your volunteer therapists so I can give back even more.
– R., A Home Within Client
My intuition and my discernment is something that is held in high regard in our work together. That’s something I wasn’t used to. I’m used to receiving the treatment and something being done to me. At AHW, my therapist gives me the space to bring my whole self into the session and explore some of the wisdom that I already hold.
– A Home Within Client
My life has been a series of bad lucks and good lucks. The parents I got were bad luck. Some of my foster homes were really bad luck. My last foster family was one of the best lucks I’ve had. Finding A Home Within is very, very good luck.
– A Home Within Client
I can’t believe something like this exists, with no deadline for ending. I can’t think of a group of people who need that more than us [foster youth].
– A Home Within Client
This is all I want for her. This little girl has had more forced changes than anyone should have their whole life. I’m trying to be as consistent as I can for her, but she needs more of that. She needs to see that I’m not the only one.
– Adopted mother of A Home Within Client
My therapist has helped me so much in just the first 6 sessions. I look forward to it every week. Thank you for matching me with her, I can’t thank you enough!
– A Home Within Client
I don’t want to be known as someone that just survived and made it through. I was resilient. I did what I was supposed to do, but also, I still need love, I still need support even though I was strong, I still needed someone to ask me if I was okay. And often we’re not checking on the strong people.
– A Home Within Client
A Home Within… provide[s] proof to foster youth that we matter as much as everyone else who walks this earth. That recognition alone gives me a source of strength to keep going when I’m struggling to justify my existence.
– A Home Within Client
