Safe Families for Children (SFFC) hosts vulnerable children and creates extended family-like supports for families through a community of devoted volunteers motivated by compassion to keep children safe and ultimately together with their families. Parents voluntarily place their children with safe, loving, and screened host families where they are cared for while additional volunteers help parents to restore stability in their lives. SFFC strives to meet three objectives: 1) prevent child abuse by providing safe, temporary homes for children from families in crisis, 2) support and stabilize families in crisis by providing mentoring and referrals to appropriate resources, and 3) deflect children from entering the child welfare system by keeping healthy families intact and reunifying children with their parents.