We are combatting the foster care crisis in Walton County, Florida

​PurposeOne:27 seeks to support foster families in their journey and make sure that every child in foster care has the resources for a loving and stable home, regardless of the circumstances that brought them to their foster home.

In 2024, the rate of children in Foster Care in Walton County was 711.7 per 100,000, which is close to double the state’s average rate of 464.9. Walton County is in the third quartile for this measure. This means that relative to other counties in Florida, there are less children in Foster Care in about one half of the counties.(FloridaHealthCharts.GOV)

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There are not enough foster families in Walton County to house the number of children entering foster care. This means that many children are placed with families outside of Walton County, which requires changing schools, being removed from friends, teachers, church and other community support systems. Additionally, routing sibling visits and visits with parents becomes more difficult and less frequent due to travel burden. 

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We seek to meet this challenge by providing a support system for current Walton County foster parents, which we hope will also encourage more people to open their homes to this vulnerable population. 

We seek to support local foster families through the principles of James 1:27:

"Pure and undefiled religion before God is to care for orphans and widows in their time of need and to keep oneself from being corrupted by the world."