Mission
New Alternatives for Children, Inc. was founded on the belief that all children, including those who are chronically ill or physically challenged, have the right to live in safe, loving, and permanent family homes.
NAC’s mission is to provide innovative, high quality services in support of birth, foster, and adoptive families who are caring for children with special medical needs at home. Working primarily with children whose birth families live in poverty, NAC seeks to enable them to remain in, or return to, their homes whenever possible, or to be adopted by loving families when necessary. NAC’s innovative services ensure that the physical, social, educational, recreational, healthcare, and mental health needs of medically fragile children are met. By supporting families, NAC prevents the institutionalization of children, precludes lengthy stays in foster care, and facilitates the timely discharge of children from hospitals where they may have lived well beyond medical need. NAC builds on family strengths, provides opportunities, and assists all family members in reaching for and realizing their dreams.
2,900+
The number of children who have achieved permanency in loving, stable and nurturing homes thanks to NAC's help.
Juliana, Mother of Francisco and Evelyn