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Welcome!

Above the Line is a community based not-for-profit that has served at-risk children and teens since 1976.

Our mission is to promote healthy and productive lives for at-risk children and teens in safe, therapeutic and educational environments.

We run two foster care programs for children 3-18 and a collaborative on-site alternative education school.

ABOVE THE LINE CLOSES

KIMBERLY CARTER HOUSE

After 30 years of operating residential programs for teens, Above the Line has closed Kimberly Carter House, its residential program for teens located in Corralitos. In 2001 Above the Line merged with Group Home Society; between the two agencies over 2000 at-risk youth were provided with housing, education, therapy and independent living skills training. Over the past few years the trend has been to keep youth in their homes or in foster homes while providing them with wraparound services to meet their therapeutic needs. As a result of these changes, Above the Line's residential program component is no longer needed.

 

Above the Line is now focusing on expanding Homes for Kids, its foster family agency to meet the growing need for foster homes for children and teens. Although the residential program has closed, Above the Line will continue its mission to prepare at-risk teens to become self-sufficient through the development of a new program that will be implemented at Watsonville Community School. The agency is working in collaboration with the Santa Cruz County Office of Education, local agri-businesses and community partners to utilize an organic garden project to teach Alternative Education students the skills needed to be ready to enter green careers and to prepare them to enter Cabrillo College's Career Education and Training Programs. For further information about Above the Line and Homes for Kids please call: 831-724-3077

 

Keep checking back as we will be updating our website as things progress.

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 


 
 

 

 
   
   
   
  For confidentiality, the teens pictured here are not associated with Above the Line.