Reconcile Long Beach

Reconcile Long Beach was founded in 2024 as a grassroots organization with a clear mission: to unite churches and community partners to support vulnerable families at risk of, or involved with, the child welfare system. We believe every family deserves the chance to heal, stay together, and thrive.

We work to build sustainable partnerships between community members, organizations, and local churches to strengthen families through four core pillars:

• Educate: Training churches and the community in trauma-informed care, child welfare needs, and practical, faith-based pathways to support families.

• Mobilize: Equipping churches with tangible ways to act, from Bridge Bundles for visitation centers. We are planning to launch the Family Support Network—a community-led prevention model providing chaplaincy, advocacy, and emergency support for families in crisis to keep them out of the child-welfare system. 

• Connect: Creating intentional relationships that change lives. Our TAY Friends program pairs young adults (ages 18–21) who have aged out of foster care with mentors from local churches, ensuring they are not alone as they step into adulthood. Connection is the thread woven through everything we do.

• Collaborate: Partnering with the LA County Department of Child and Family Services, the City of Long Beach,  and local networks like the South Bay Care Collaborative to strengthen family preservation efforts across systems.

Your gift to Reconcile Long Beach during Long Beach Gives helps us expand these vital programs, grow church engagement, and provide hope and healing for families who need it most. Together, we can make Long Beach a place where families are reconciled, whole, and thriving.

Families reconcile when communities collaborate. Will you join us?