Dark to Dawn is developing relationships with people and organizations that have a huge heart for orphans and those that care for them.
Arrow Child and Family Ministries | www.arrow.org
Arrow Child & Family Ministries serves children rescued from abuse by
recruiting, training, certifying and supporting Ambassador Families (foster-adopt families)
as they provide a nurturing home for a child from a Christian worldview. The ultimate goal
of Arrow Christian Foster Care is to facilitate permanency for these children; either through
reunification back into a healthy environment with their biological families, or through adoption
by the Ambassador Family.
California Youth Connection | www.calyouthconn.org
California Youth Connection (CYC) is the voice of foster youth in our community. CYC is guided, focused, and driven by current and former foster youth, with the assistance of other committed community members. CYC Chapters in counties throughout the state identify local issues and use grassroots and community organizing to create positive change. To get in touch with the Ventura County chapter, contact Cristina Miranda at cyc.ventura.county@gmail.com.
Casa Pacifica Centers for Children and Families | www.casapacifica.org
Casa Pacifica Centers for Children and Families is a crisis-care and residential treatment facility
for abused, neglected, or at-risk children in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. The agency
is the largest non-profit provider of children’s mental health services in both counties and
administers a number of community-based programs which are designed with the intent to
strengthen families and keep children in their homes. For more information about Casa Pacifica
Center for Children and Families, visit its website or call the Development Department at
(805) 445-7800.
Chinese Children Adoption International | www.chinesechildren.org
Chinese Children Adoption International has been the largest China-only adoption agency in
the USA and has found loving homes for over 8,500 abandoned Chinese children since 1992. In
recent years, we have expanded our adoption programs to included Haiti and Ethiopia because of
the extra-ordinary need to which we felt we must respond. CCAI exists to find permanent homes
for homeless children, provide humanitarian support to children living in the orphanages, and
offer cultural and emotional support to adopted children.
Hope for Orphans | www.hopefororphans.org
Hope for Orphans, a ministry of FamilyLife, partners with churches as they seek to live out pure
and undefiled religion by caring for orphans. Hope for Orphans provides biblical resources and
access to other ministries that can help your church answer God’s call to reach orphans with His
love and hope.
Ventura County Children and Family Services Foster Care Program | www.vchsa.org
Ventura County needs host homes to provide a room to rent for youth who are transitioning out of foster care and moving towards living on their own. Call and ask to speak to Rosemary Fields at 805 654-3456.
Lifesong for Orphans | www.lifesongfororphans.org
Lifesong for Orphans helps provide innovative financial solutions for adoption expenses through
interest-free adoption loans, matching grants, etc. Lifesong helps churches to create and launch
Church Adoption Funds in churches nationwide. Lifesong also develops in-country orphan care
solutions in Ukraine, Zambia, India, Honduras through christian schools, orphanages, transition
homes, micro-business, etc.
Loving Shepherd Ministries | www.loving-shepherd.org
In response to the love of Christ, Loving Shepherd Ministries is committed to placing children
around the world into permanent, loving Christian families. LSM does this by providing highquality
resources to US Christian couples in the beginning stages of adoption at no cost. LSM also
works through indigenous churches to place children into families in Haiti and Ethiopia via our
Homes of Hope program. In addition, LSM is committed to combating systems that result in child
slavery and female exploitation.
Miracle House International Children’s Homes | www.miracle-house.org
Miracle House develops international children’s homes to care for orphans and widows in a
loving, Godly family environment! Their vision is to identify and reach the hopeless and helpless,
to bring hope and healing to the desperate, and to raise up the next generation of leaders to be
motivated by the heart of God.
Nightlight Christian Adoptions | www.nightlight.org
Nightlight® Christian Adoptions is a licensed adoption agency based in Southern California,
offering adoption programs for the tiniest of children (embryos), providing free counseling
and support to young women facing a crisis pregnancy who may decide to place their baby for
adoption, and helping many children worldwide—toddlers on up to teenagers—who dream of
a forever family of their own. Nightlight provides humanitarian aid to children in orphanages
throughout the world, most recently starting an orphanage in Uganda to help some of the many
little ones left orphans as the result of war and disease.
Royal Family Kids Camp | www.ventura.rfkc.org
Royal Family Kids’ Camps (RFKC) of Ventura is one of a nationwide network of 140 camps in 40
states and 12 foreign countries. RFKC is an all-volunteer ministry funded entirely by donations
to take abused, abandoned, and neglected children (ages 7-11) in foster care for a summer
camping experience where the children are lifted, loved, encouraged, and affirmed with the
simple goal of providing a week of positive memories.
Teen Reach Adventure Camp | www.tracinternational.org
Teen Reach Adventure Camp (TRAC) is a 3-day, single-gender camp designed especially for foster
teens aged 12-15. The goal of TRAC is for caring Christian adults to spend quality time with each
teen, listening and encouraging each other to respect themselves and others while they work
together, have fun together and learn new skills that boost confidence.
Uganda Buyamba Inc. | www.ugandabuyamba.org
Uganda Buyamba Inc. is a nonprofit ministry organized to support the orphaned and forgotten
children of Uganda. We provide for the physical and emotional care and needs of these children,
empowering them through ongoing education and spiritual discipleship, to become contributing
citizens who will impact the world for Christ. Buyamba supports the vision and work of Pastor
Bethuel and Florence Dongo at Buyamba Orphan Outreach and God Cares School, giving these
children an opportunity to learn and grow in their faith. It is through education that these
children will one day rise above their circumstances. Our sponsors and benefactors are making
that way possible.
Ventura County Children and Family Services Foster Care Program | www.vchsa.org
Ventura County needs host families to provide a room to rent for youth who are transitioning out of foster care and moving towards living on their own. Contact Andrew Shlapak at
805 289-1982 or Andrew.shlapak@ventura.org.
World Orphans | www.worldorphans.org
World Orphans is committed to rescuing millions of orphaned and abandoned children,
strengthening the indigenous church, and impacting communities with the gospel of Jesus Christ
through church-based orphan prevention, rescue, care and transition programs in the least
reached areas of the world.
By stepping in to prevent, delay and rescue orphaned children, we can break devastating cycles
and change more than just the number of orphans.
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