Community
Care
Chester County foster Care support
Well rooted support family
The Youngs are a registered support family for a local non-profit called Well Rooted. Well Rooted “exists to support, nurture and empower young adults and families entering, exiting or existing in the foster system by walking alongside them and connecting them to the relationships and resources they need to thrive.”
Refugee Resettlement
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Chester County Refugee Resettlement
Crystal is a founding member of a Refugee Resettlement Team in our county. The RR team is trained, certified, and commissioned by Church World Services (CWS), a government-contracted resettlement agency, and works to ensure that each arriving refugee family is met with a warm welcome and the provision of the vital services needed to thrive and become valued members of their new communities.
Our team currently partners with Providence Church and Westside Immigration Legal Services (WILS) toward this goal.
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Education Team Lead
Crystal specifically serves the resettling families on the education front, as the Education team co-leader. Helping the families successfully integrate into the school system, childcare, and English Language learning courses, are her main responsibilities. She has developed partnerships within the school district, and, through them, comes alongside other families here on temporary visas who need community support.
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Refugee Camp Support*
Before refugees arrive in their receiving country, they wait an average of seven years for their asylum request to be processed, living in temporary housing outside their home country. While the majority of them live in urban areas, approximately 6.6 million refugees live in refugee camps (temporary facilities self-settled or managed by organizations as short-term solutions) worldwide. Unfortunately, people often become stuck in camps for years or even decades.
We’re looking to foster partnerships that help enrich life in refugee camps abroad through a holistic program offering soccer training, art lessons, and personalized care, including spiritual support.
CenterCircle has a vision for how these people–specifically foster care kids and refugees–and the transplanted athletes we work with have the potential to mutually benefit from each other. They are all, through one way or another, displaced; they all have been relocated and are in need of the community and resources necessary to flourish. Imagine how relationships built between their spheres could enrich and bless one another.
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