Family Care Network, Inc.

01/05/2026

You create real, practical change.

Recently, donated dollars helped secure housing for a family member who provides critical childcare support to another family we serve—ensuring that the family can continuing rebuilding their stability and self-sufficiency.

Your support not only strengthens families; you strengthen our community!

Thank you for being part of solutions for long-term impact.

01/01/2026

Today, we’re looking back at the moments that defined 2025 for us—the breakthroughs, the milestones, and the countless small victories that made big changes possible.

Every moment represents a family supported, a child protected, and another step successfully made toward healing. Thank you for not only being part of this journey but for making life-changing Hope, Stability, Support & Empowerment possible for every person in our care.

Wishing you a hopeful and purpose-filled 2026 from all of us at Family Care Network. ✨

01/01/2026

⏳ The clock is ticking—only a few hours remain.

This is your final chance to make a tax-deductible, life-changing gift, and change everything for ONE MORE FAMILY .

Don’t miss your last opportunity to help families start the New Year with hope, stability, and healing.

❤️ Donate before midnight!

12/31/2025

📣This is it—the LAST opportunity to GET US TO OUR GOAL before 2025 ends.

With over 600 children, youth, adults and families in care at any give time, your support is critical to make sure each one has what they need, when they need it. Give Joy affords us make sure that no one goes without. But we need you to reach this year's goal.

We're less than $6,000 away from making sure we have the funding we need to make life-saving and changing joy possible for each person in our care --not just now but into the new year.

👉 You can get us all the way there!

❤️ Please, make your 100% tax-deductible donation now and get us to our Give Joy goal before midnight.

12/29/2025

“Thank you for all that you’re doing to support people in our community!” — Give Joy donor

We’re grateful for donors who see the need and respond with compassion. Their generosity is making it possible for families in crisis to move closer to stability and healing during their most challenging seasons.

❤️ YOU can stand with them.
Make a gift to the Give Joy campaign and help another family experience life-changing joy right now.

12/25/2025

This Christmas, our hearts are full.

In this reel, you’ll see FCNI staff reading thank-you notes from families who felt supported, seen, and cared for because of you and your generous gifts to Give Joy. Every word is a powerful reminder that compassion—especially during the holidays—is necessary and life-changing.

From our Family Care Network family to yours, Merry Christmas. Thank you for helping make these moments possible. 🎄❤️

12/24/2025

We are so grateful to be part of this community and how our youth and families benefit from its amazing support!

The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo County today announced $2.26 million in unrestricted grants to support the operating and program needs of 27 local nonprofit organizations through Together for SLO County: A Critical Response Fund. The fund is the result of a coordinated public-private effort designed to stabilize essential services during a period of significant financial strain on the nonprofit sector.

These awards were made possible through a powerful collaboration that brought together the County Board of Supervisors, First 5 San Luis Obispo County, and generous community donors who stepped forward as nonprofits across the region faced rising demand alongside substantial funding losses. This combined investment will help sustain critical programs serving families, seniors, youth, and vulnerable residents across San Luis Obispo County.

“This is what collective leadership looks like,” said Christine Dawson, CEO of The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo County. “The County Board of Supervisors’ early investment of $1.2 million dollars created the foundation for action, and the partnership with First 5 and individual donors allowed us to rapidly expand the impact. Together, we moved resources where they were most urgently needed to the organizations holding our community together.”
Beyond grantmaking, the Community Foundation is launching a comprehensive sustainability support initiative for this cohort of grantees. Organizations will have access to consulting services, one-on-one coaching, organizational assessments, and tailored technical assistance. Each organization will complete a needs assessment to help identify priority areas of support needed, with the goal of strengthening both immediate and long-term resilience.

“Emergency funding is significant, but stability comes from pairing dollars with strategy,” added Dawson. “These organizations deserve both immediate relief and the tools to plan confidently for what comes next.”

Organizations receiving funding provide a wide range of critical services including mental health care, housing stabilization, food access, youth development, medical and dental services, and safety resources for survivors of violence. The impact of the funding was felt immediately by recipients.

“Community Counseling Center is utterly breathless, humbled, and overjoyed,” said James Statler, Executive Director of Community Counseling Center of San Luis Obispo County. “The community has stepped up in a monumental way to support the nonprofit sector. This award goes straight to the heart of our work and will shine through in the quality of care provided to our clients.”
Supervisors Heather Moreno and Dawn Ortiz-Legg, who served on the subcommittee that facilitated the partnership, emphasized the importance of aligning public and private resources.
“We recognized that by joining forces with The Community Foundation, we could increase funding for the local nonprofits that provide critical services for San Luis Obispo County families, seniors, and youth,” they said in a joint statement. “It worked, and we are incredibly grateful to everyone who contributed to the Together for SLO County campaign, as well as the Community Foundation staff for their dedication. We are especially appreciative of the hardworking nonprofits on the front lines supporting our community.”

First 5 San Luis Obispo County also joined this effort by contributing $100,000 to ensure continuity of early childhood and family support services during this period of heightened community need. "During these challenging times, Together for SLO County is a bright example of shared commitment to a common cause. First 5 is proud to partner as a co-investor in this collective effort through which we are not just filling urgent gaps, but planting the seeds of stability, resilience, and hope for families with young children across San Luis Obispo County," said Wendy Wendt, Executive Director of First 5 SLO County.

A complete list of 2025 Together for SLO County grant recipients is available at:
https://www.cfsloco.org/nonprofits-2/grantees/

“These nonprofits are trusted anchors in our community,” Dawson said. “This funding provides breathing room while organizations plan for long term resilience in an unpredictable funding environment.”

12/22/2025

Christmas is just days away...how are you feeling?

For families in our care, they're feeling anxious. How will they make the holidays feel safe, positive, and hopeful for their kids?

For them, this season is filled with stress and uncertainty. They fear they won't be able to give their kids the holiday they deserve because they're working to rebuild their safety and stability.

You can change this.

Donate today and bring immediate relief and joy to local families who need to feel supported before Christmas morning arrives.

❤️ Please give today—your support can transform a family’s holiday and their future.

12/19/2025

Did you know that we've welcomed almost 100 new families into our care this holiday season? That means that more than 100 local individuals are just starting their journeys from crisis to stability this month alone.

As the end of 2025 nears, we urgently need your help to make sure every family we serve--especially those just starting the hard work of healing--have what they need to start their New Year with purpose, dignity, and life-changing joy. ❤️

Donate today. Give a families the emotional lift they need to keep believing, working, and healing.

12/19/2025

Some VERY exciting news! We were so honored to be selected by the Chumash Foundation for this very important funding. And incredibly thankful that with their support more foster youth will be able to transition safely and successfully to adult independence. Truly, a life-changing and saving award!

We work collaboratively with community members, county partners & local businesses to provide social services for SLO's most vulnerable members.

12/18/2025

We want to send a huge thank you to McAlister Training , a long-time local training gym and an outstanding community partner, for raising over $14,000 in support of our Give Joy campaign.

Their gym family came together with heart, dedication, and generosity to ensure local families in our care could experience a healing and joyful holiday season. Efforts like these remind us of how powerful community support truly is. Because their donation won't just change our families' holidays; they'll change their futures too.

From all of us at FCNI—thank you to everyone at McAlister Training for continuing to show up and do the amazing work you do for our community.

12/17/2025

“As a single mom with no family close by, it is certainly a struggle to make ends meet. I’m truly grateful to our community for providing this gift. It gives me hope to know that there is still kindness in this world. I send you all a very heartfelt thank you.” 💛

YOU are the kindness that inspired these real words of thanks. Your generosity changed this family's holidays, and will encourage their progress into the New Year. That's an immeasurable impact!

Haven't given yet? You can still make sure local families feel supported, seen, and empowered on their journeys in our care. Give Joy Now