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Fall 2024

  • Community members at the original opening of HomeSafe’s Boca campus.

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.

  • The ladies who enjoyed the day of beauty, empowerment and gratitude.

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 [...]

  • SafetyNet family - GOOD

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. [...]

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Summer 2024

  • Golf Ambassadors Patty Larkin, Logan Shalmi, Fern Schmidt, Jim MacCutcheon, Brooke Qualk, Phil Engman

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 [...]

  • Steve Bernstein and Lori Keezer

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 [...]

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Winter 2024

  • twelve-year-old Patrick got the Christmas present that he had always wanted

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 [...]

  • Builing

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 [...]

  • Sherrye Sammons, Bjarne & Maria Borg, Matt Ladika

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 [...]

  • Golf 2024

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 [...]

  • Kinny Madori

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 [...]

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Summer 2023

  • A New Chapter of Hope and Healing

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 [...]

  • Peter Austin, Steve Bernstein, Neil Gillman, Greg Bernardo

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 [...]

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Winter 2022

  • Ribbon Cutting

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 [...]

  • Larry & Gina Melby, Kelly Smallridge and Rex Kirby

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, [...]

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Summer 2022

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, [...]

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Fall 2020

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 [...]