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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.
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