A foster-to-adopt home where children stay as long as they need one — not until a placement runs out.
The Sanctuary Home is a three-stage residential community designed to move vulnerable children from safety, to stability, to independence. Children live in small, age-appropriate homes with consistent caregivers rather than an institutional environment — supported in part by Casita Gris, a hospitality village next door.
How a child grows up here
As children grow, they move — gradually and gently — from round-the-clock nurturing toward the responsibility and independence they'll need as adults.
Around-the-clock care in a stable, family-style environment. A "home mom" is present every morning and evening, so the youngest children have the same steady face to wake up to and come home to.
A smaller transitional home where early adolescents begin taking on more responsibility, while staying close to the community and caregivers they already know.
Older teens progressively build life skills and take on real responsibility — including supervised work at the Casita Gris village — as they prepare for employment, education, housing, and adulthood.
Day to day
Beyond housing, children are surrounded by the people and structure they need to heal, learn, and grow.
On-site therapeutic support that meets children where they are, using play as the language of healing.
Space for hands-on development, play, and real work skills — chores and projects that build competence and confidence.
A classical-style curriculum that prepares children academically for college and for life beyond it.
Cooking, cleaning, and grounds care are handled by staff, so caregivers can focus on the children rather than the house.
Older teens can take on real, supervised roles at the Casita Gris hospitality village as part of their path toward employment.
Small homes with the same familiar adults, not rotating staff — so relationships have time to take root.
Birth families
For parents who still hold rights to their child, we offer counseling and support services — because reunification, where it's possible and safe, matters as much as a stable placement when it isn't.
How it's sustained
The Sanctuary Home is supported in part by Casita Gris, a hospitality village of French-style cottage stays next door. Income from the village works alongside grants, contracts, and charitable giving to create a sustainable, earned-income foundation for the children's programming — rather than relying on donations alone.
Structure
The goal isn't simply to house children. It's to build a system where a child can enter in crisis and leave with a family, an education, practical skills, real relationships, employment potential, and a realistic path to independence.