Newsletters
Fall 2024
Celebrating 30 Years in Boca Raton
HomeSafe gets ready to re-open Campus and launch Endowment Campaign. We are grateful for all those who, through their gifts and volunteer leadership over the decades, have joined with us to rescue children from trauma and bring love and healing into their lives.
Empowering Domestic Violence Survivors
On one Saturday in October, domestic abuse survivors from our SafetyNet program put their worries aside and participated in a celebration of their resilience, their beauty and their connection. The program included a fashion show, [...]
Fulfilling Our Promise
Because of all of our generous donors, we have completed four newly designed campuses where severely traumatized children will find safety, security, and healing. In the next few weeks, our final project in Boca Raton [...]
Mother Finds the Strength to Leave Her Abuser
As a teenager, Beth found herself trapped in a relationship where fear kept her from escaping. Then, for a heartbreaking decade, she endured physical, sexual, emotional, and financial abuse at the hands of her partner. [...]
End the Year by Making a Difference with a Donation
Every gift you make to HomeSafe provides children and families (like Beth’s featured on the other page) with access to therapeutic services that help them recover from their past trauma and build a future for [...]
Newsletters
Summer 2024
Golf Tournament Hits Fund-Raising Record
HomeSafe hosted its most successful golf tournament yet on May 20 at the exclusive High Ridge Country Club. The tournament net $100,000 to help save the lives of thousands of children and families who have [...]
Finding Love, Hope and Family at HomeSafe
Fifteen-year-old “James” grew up with a violent stepfather who frequently assaulted his mom. Subsequently, he was removed from his home by the Florida Department of Children and Families, and placed in the foster care system. [...]
A Lesson to Last a Lifetime
Girls from HomeSafe’s Sylvester Family Foundation West campus in West Palm Beach were recently given a lesson that will last them a lifetime. Through her Imagine U program, HomeSafe board president, Tarra Moten, treated 11 [...]
Guardian Society Members Honored
This spring, HomeSafe gathered supporters at the soon-to-be reconfigured and reconstructed Bernstein Family Foundation campus in east Boca Raton. The event honored HomeSafe’s Guardian Society donors who have invested significantly in the futures of abused [...]
Newsletters
Winter 2024
A Forever Home for the Holidays
This year, twelve-year-old Patrick got the Christmas present that he had always wanted – a family. Like most kids at HomeSafe, Patrick endured a difficult childhood marked by physical and emotional abuse from his birth [...]
In Memoriam. This past year, we lost two beloved members of our HomeSafe family.
David M. Layman, a West Palm Beach shareholder at Greenberg Traurig, passed away unexpectedly in October. David was one of HomeSafe’s longest-serving board members, having spent 26 years in various leadership positions for the agency, [...]
Breaking Ground on Safe, Healing Spaces in Boca Raton
Children at HomeSafe are here because they have lived through heart-breaking circumstances. They have endured abuse, neglect, abandonment, and other horrors that have deeply affected their emotions, hampering their ability to trust. At HomeSafe, we [...]
The Classic Gets Back to its Rock & Roll Roots
Our 21st Annual Classic Rock & Roll Party held at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on January 27, was truly a night of great music and fun! The party, hopping with 380 guests, [...]
HomeSafe in the Community
Town of Palm Beach United Way SafetyNet Program Supervisor, Idie Moreno, LMHC, was a guest speaker at the Town of Palm Beach United Way 32nd Annual Business and Professional Breakfast at the Breakers on November [...]
Be a Sponsor and Support the Kids!
HomeSafe’s Charity Golf Tournament is on Monday, May 20 at the exclusive High Ridge Country Club in Boynton Beach. Join us for breakfast, golf on this beautiful course, lunch program and more! Click here for [...]
Welcome, Kinny Madori to the HomeSafe Family
HomeSafe is very proud to welcome our newest board member, Kinny Madori. He joins with a distinguished career as CEO and portfolio manager of Kingdom Capital Management, Inc., an investment management firm that manages private [...]
Newsletters
Summer 2023
A New Chapter of Hope and Healing
HomeSafe is proud to announce the opening of its third new specialized therapeutic group home for abused and abandoned children. The Sylvester Family Foundation North Campus in West Palm Beach is a safe and welcoming [...]
“…the work we do at HomeSafe is even more important than I imagined.”
I came to HomeSafe from a large nonprofit healthcare system because I wanted to have a more intimate connection between the work I do as chief philanthropy officer and the people we serve. Now [...]
SUPPORTERS “ROCK ON” TO HELP TRANSFORM LIVES
This year’s Classic Rock & Roll Party held at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood was the agency’s most successful with a net revenue of $489,000! Don Felder, former lead guitarist [...]
Golfers Enjoy High Ridge Country Club
On May 22, golfers were treated to the exquisite course at the exclusive High Ridge Country Club – a new venue for this year’s tournament. Youth players, including several who are learning the game [...]
Congratulations to Our Recent High School Graduates!
For foster youth, high school graduation is far from guaranteed. Only 30-50% of foster children obtain their high school diploma, and 3-5% obtain a four-year college degree. As a child, Katie struggled in the [...]
Newsletters
Winter 2022
A Safe Place to Call Home
The Stoops Family Foundation Grand Cottage on the new Sylvester Family Foundation North campus was dedicated with a ribbon cutting on November 1. The 12,867 square-foot home in West Palm Beach will give twelve [...]
HomeSafe is Hope Realized
HomeSafe resident, Nicole "HomeSafe is different than any other place I have lived. You showed me a different side of me. You didn’t see me as another angry child, as a problem. You [...]
Ken and Maggie Rosenberg Contribute $500,000 to HomeSafe’s Healing the Hurt Campaign
Ken and Maggie Rosenberg Retired Boca Raton resident Ken Rosenberg, and his wife Maggie, have made a $500,000 gift to the Healing the Hurt campaign for HomeSafe. Their generous gift is helping to [...]
Meet our Classic Co-Chairs
Larry & Gina Melby, Kelly Smallridge and Rex Kirby The two couples serving as this year’s co-chairs are good friends with a mutual soft spot in their hearts for the kids at HomeSafe. [...]
Preventing Family Violence Before It Starts
Maria celebrating Valentine’s Day with her Project ReachOut family When Maria dropped in on a support group at her mobile home community in 2021, she was depressed and despondent. She had recently lost [...]
Shining a Light on Intimate Partner Violence
Domestic violence is a serious threat to its victims, and those who endure it experience long-term damaging physical and psychological effects. Children are particularly vulnerable. Witnessing violence in their home can lead to educational, social, [...]
Newsletters
Summer 2022
Launching the Next Generation of Residential Group Care
HomeSafe is at the forefront of group care for foster children who have been abused and neglected. We are seeing children who are in more pain than ever before. These kids have trouble managing [...]
Creating Healing Spaces in Boca Raton
On March 1, 2022, HomeSafe unveiled plans to build a safe, secure home for abused and neglected children on the Bernstein Family Foundation campus in Boca Raton.
Classic Rock & Roll Party Hits a Fund Raising High Note
Guests are calling for an encore after our 19th Annual Classic Rock & Roll Party in March was one of our most successful yet!
Players Tee Off to Support HomeSafe
On June 6, golf lovers enjoyed a beautiful South Florida morning on the course at the exclusive Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club in Boca Raton.
Building Back One Child’s Confidence
Aria* is a smart, sweet seventh-grader. She was removed from her home when it was discovered that she was being abused by her stepfather. When her mother did not intercede, parental rights were terminated, [...]
Newsletters
Winter 2021
Bringing Joy to our Children During the Holidays
HomeSafe team members pour love into our kids every day, and they work even harder during the holidays to bring extra joy and excitement to the children in our homes.
Dedication Ceremony Honors the Stoops Family Foundation
On October 28, HomeSafe supporters gathered at the Sylvester Family Foundation West Campus in West Palm Beach for the dedication of the Stoops Family Foundation Residential Cottage.
HomeSafe Helps a Child Learn to Cope and Manage His Trauma
Gabe* is a 10 year old boy who loves sports and video games. His favorite subject in school is math, and he proudly recites the multiplication table.
Newsletters
Summer 2021
State-of-the-Art Specialized Therapeutic Group Home Opens in West Palm Beach
Excitement was in the air on April 6 when HomeSafe and 50 of its supporters and friends celebrated the opening of its brand-new campus in West Palm Beach, the Sylvester Family West Campus...
Music Changes One Young Adult’s Life
Carlos has been a client at the Bernstein Independent Living Campus, also known as Pond Place, for a year...
SafetyNet Reaches Out To Prevent Domestic Violence
Many Palm Beach County families are under stress like never before. For more than a year, a global pandemic has upended their lives with numerous challenges...
Players get Back on Course to Support HomeSafe!
On June 7, play resumed for HomeSafe’s annual Charity Golf Tournament after its cancellation last year due to the pandemic...
Newsletters
Fall 2020
HOMESAFE DONORS – THE GUARDIAN ANGELS OF BIRTHDAY AND HOLIDAY MAGIC
Birthdays and holidays can be a tough time for a child living in foster care. The fear of your birthday passing without a cake and presents is very real for these children. The same is [...]
His Father’s Wisdom Fuels Steve Bernstein’s Limitless Drive to Give Back
There are thoughtful donors and deeply invested benefactors … and then there is Steve Bernstein. While he is undoubtedly among the most generous donors in HomeSafe’s 42-year history, Steve’s greatest gift is his passionate volunteerism. [...]
The First Client to Move into Pond Place on the Path to Success
Jeff spent his entire life living in private and group foster homes. When he was 19, he was living with a foster parent, but due to some difficulties in the household, he moved out. Thanks [...]
Miracles Really Do Exist for a Deserving Boy at HomeSafe
With blond hair and blue eyes, Mark* seemed angelic. In reality, he was sad, angry, and lonely. Mark had experienced numerous horrors at home in his short life: violence, substance abuse and drug abuse. Most [...]
MOM USES READING TO BUILD A SPECIAL BOND
Astrid has two young children. Her older son receives therapy for speech delays that were not detected when he was younger. She is grateful to have learned about our Healthy Beginnings Growing Smart Program which [...]
SAFETYNET THERAPISTS HELP ONE FAMILY SUMMON THE COURAGE TO HEAL
Gaudy,* age 41, and her young children were referred to HomeSafe’s SafetyNet Program for domestic violence counseling. She had endured a long history of verbal, physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her husband, [...]

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