Programs We Offer
"When you connect to the heart of a child, everything is possible"
- Dr. Karyn Purvis
Goal:
To restore the health, dignity, and well-being of sick children while supporting families to remain involved, informed, and united throughout the healing journey.
Objectives:
● Advocate for the medical, emotional, and developmental needs.
● Provide safe residential care during medical treatment.
● Support children with terminal or life-limiting illnesses through compassionate, family-centered hospice care.
● Ensure continuity of education during illness.
● Deliver trauma-informed counseling and referrals.
● Link families to resources (PCSO, DSWD, LGUs, churches).
● Preserve family unity whenever possible.
Goal:
To provide a safe, nurturing family environment where children heal from trauma, discover their God-given worth, and prepare for life beyond residential care.
Objectives:
● Meet physical, emotional, educational, social, and spiritual needs.
● Raise children as sons and daughters, affirming dignity and identity.
● Support reunification, foster care, adoption, or independent living.
● Strengthen families through referrals, skills training, and livelihood support.
● Advocate for children’s rights and protection.
Goal:
Prevent child–family separation by empowering parents to meet children’s medical needs within the community and local hospitals.
Objectives:
● Provide medical assistance and procedures for children in need.
● Offer counseling and emotional support during crises.
● Equip parents to manage health needs and make informed decisions.
● Advocate against relinquishment due to poverty, illness, or disability.
Goal:
Build safe, nurturing, and empowered families that uphold and protect children’s rights.
Objectives:
● Ensure access to rights-based services and protection programs.
● Strengthen caregivers’ capacity to meet children’s basic needs.
● Equip caregivers with parenting, protection, and advocacy skills.
● Promote environments where children are safe, valued, and able to thrive.
CPA Program Goal:
To recruit, equip, and support families within the local community to provide safe, nurturing, and Christ centered foster care and adoption, ensuring that every child grows up in a permanent, loving family whenever possible.
CPA Core Objectives:
● Recruit and train families for foster care and adoption, emphasizing trauma-informed and faith-based parenting.
● Partner with NACC, RACCO, DSWD and local government units to ensure compliance with child protection and placement standards.
● Provide ongoing support and counseling to foster and adoptive families to strengthen placements and prevent disruption.
● Advocate for permanency planning so children experience stability, belonging, and long-term family care.
● Mobilize churches and community networks to raise awareness and encourage family-based care as an alternative to institutionalization.
● Ensure every child’s best interest is prioritized in placement decisions, guided by love, dignity, and Christ’s example.
Our 5 Program Pillars
Our organization exists to see children and families restored through Christ-centered, trauma-informed care. Guided by the love and example of Jesus Christ, we provide holistic programs that heal, strengthen, and preserve families while ensuring every child experiences dignity, belonging, and hope. Through the Children’s Recovery Unit (CRU), we restore the health and well-being of sick children while keeping families involved and united. The Children’s Home (CH) offers a safe, nurturing environment where children heal from trauma, discover their God-given worth, and prepare for life beyond residential care. The Community Program (TCP) prevents unnecessary separation by empowering parents to meet their children’s medical needs within their own communities. The Family Strengthening Program (FS) equips parents and guardians with the skills, resources, and resilience to create safe, nurturing homes where children thrive. Building on these foundations, our new Child Placing Agency (CPA) recruits, trains, and supports families for foster care and adoption within the local community. By partnering with NACC, RACCO, DSWD, LGUs, and churches, the CPA ensures that children grow up in permanent, loving families whenever possible—fulfilling our vision of family-based care as the best expression of Christ’s love in action. Together, these five programs form a comprehensive continuum of care: from crisis recovery, to family strengthening, to permanent placement in safe, nurturing homes. In every step, we remain committed to trauma-informed practice, faith-driven compassion, and measurable outcomes that honor both regulatory standards and donor expectations.
Every child deserves to grow up in a safe, loving family. Through our Christ-centered, trauma-informed programs, we restore children’s dignity, strengthen families in crisis, and prevent unnecessary separation. From medical recovery to family reunification, from community support to foster and adoptive placements, we walk alongside children and families with compassion and hope. Your partnership makes this possible. Together, we are not only meeting urgent needs but building futures—where children are healed, families are empowered, and communities reflect the tender heart of Christ in action.
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Homeschool
We provide individualized, tailored Homeschooling under the Homeschool Global program for each school aged child in our care. Children are taught by qualified teachers and are given the opportunity to catch up on much needed education even while recovering from illness or trauma. They gain confidence and and skills to help disrupt the generational cycles of poverty that have plagued their families for many years. The goal is for a change in the direction of their lives and in their lives of their future children.
Hospital Care Program
We assist families in Baguio General Hospital (BGH) and Benguet General Hospital (BEGH) by offering practical support for their needs while they are confined and after they are discharged if follow-up care is needed. This is part of our family strengthening program. We help provide finances for treatment, life-saving medications, and medical supplies, as well as much counselling, debriefing, emotional support, and care to indigent children who are confined. Generally we aim to help families stay together through their crisis.
Future Dreams: The Children's Village
Our dream for the future involves purchasing land and building a village of family-style cottages that can house children in a more family-based setting. We want to move away from the traditional orphanage-style home and get children back into family-style homes. We want to remember that we are not raising orphans; we are raising sons and daughters! To do this, we believe that the children need to be in smaller homes with a Mama and a Papa that they can call their own. The Mama and Papa will have the assistance of some “aunties” in raising their kids, but the flow of the home will be centered around them and the children.
Each home will have no more than 10 kids per house. The Children’s Village will focus on a variety of clientele groups, including children who have been orphaned, abandoned, abused, neglected, or surrendered by their families. We will also have a Children’s Recovery Unit specifically for sick kids to have a home to recover in before they are reunited with their families. We also envision a hospice-type home, which will provide palliative care for terminally ill children. An aging-out or transition home will provide a space for our older children to learn independent living skills while still feeling very much part of the family. The village will have admin buildings, a multipurpose hall, and volunteers'/mission teams' quarters. It also had a healing clinic and space for education and learning.
It is a huge vision, but we hope to begin to make concrete plans for it in this year. Helping Hands has always believed in partnering and networking with other agencies and will continue to do so. We are not particularly set up or capable of handling CICL, sexually abused children, or children with moderate to severe disabilities, and thus we will network with other agencies (both NGO and LGU) for the appropriate referrals and placement of children from each of these marginalized groups. On the flip side, we will be open to referrals from them for their sick children and children in need of long-term family homes. As far as we know, we are the only NGO that specifically caters to sick children, and thus we are also considering widening our areas of coverage as we realize that this service isn’t offered in other parts of the Philippines. We hope and pray that this vision of a large Children’s Village will someday soon become a reality.
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