About Us

About We Care Services for Children
64 years ago, parents of children with developmental and cognitive disabilities founded We Care to address the lack of treatment options for their at-risk children.  These parents understood the complex needs of their sons and daughters and forged an agency that has since evolved to address a broad range of developmental and mental health concerns – all while keeping focus on each child and family and their specific strengths. 

Since then, We Care’s services have evolved and expanded to encompass a wide array of developmental, educational, and mental health programming.  Our understanding of the true roots of social, emotional, and behavioral problems has grown along with the corresponding improvement in the science that guides us and in response, many of our programs have shifted focus to encompass our response to the impact of trauma related to neglect and family or community violence.  The measured outcomes our clients experience support the value of these changes and today, thousands upon thousands of children and families have graduated from We Care’s programs with dramatically improved outcomes.

Mission Statement
Through targeted, compassionate, and effective early intervention services, We Care helps the most vulnerable children in our community reach their full potential, regardless of their abilities or circumstances.

We Care’s Services
Annually, we impact more than 1,200 children and family members from our community’s most vulnerable populations.

Developmental. Early intervention in the first three years can significantly improve intellectual, physical, communicative, adaptive, and emotional developmental outcomes. Too, these services strengthen each family’s ability to advocate and care for their children. Programs include developmentally enhanced low-income preschool classrooms, parent-child developmental playgroups and a relationship-focused classroom for toddlers with autism.

Mental Health. Early intervention mental health programs improve outcomes for children facing the likelihood of significant emotional and behavioral disruption of their development.  Studies have shown that mental health programs delivered early and effectively create significant and lasting improvement in areas of parenting stress, abuse, empathy toward the child, and, in the child, improvement in cognitive and social development.  Programs include attachment-based clinical services, a family-driven wraparound program, a preschool consultation program for preschoolers at risk of expulsion, an infant-caregiver bonding program and intensive foster care services.

We Care helps at-risk children (and their families) who need us the most, at a time we can offer the greatest impact.