A World Where Everyone Belongs
At Bridges Homeward, we envision a world where everyone belongs to a safe and permanent family.
Our mission is to provide high-quality support and advocacy for children, adults, and families to develop and nurture safe, permanent relationships and maximize individual growth.
Everyone deserves safe, secure, and permanent family. Bridges Homeward has been advocating for children, adults, and families for over 150 years.
Our Family of Services:
Placement
Our Foster Care and Adoption Programs find committed, loving homes where children and teens can flourish.
Developmental Disabilities
Our Developmental Disabilities Program provides training, advocacy, and social opportunities to persons with developmental disabilities and their families.
Prevention
Our Family Support & Stabilization Program strengthens families so that they may thrive.
150 Years of Building Bridges
In 2024, our agency celebrates 150 years of service. What did our organization look like 150 years ago? And where do we want to head in the future?
What’s new at Bridges Homeward
Empowering Massachusetts
Our reach in Massachusetts is far and wide. At Bridges Homeward, we partner with over 100 organizations and businesses across the state. Together, we can offer more meaningful resources and services to our clients. We invest in the community and foster a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
You can change lives.
Make a donation today.
Make an impact. Your donation teaches teens valuable life skills, finds children in foster care therapeutic homes, helps families stay together, and so much more. Please give today.
Family Stories
Sometimes, permanency in our work means making sure a child can remain with their birth family; sometimes it means ensuring someone with a developmental disability can live with family instead of moving to an institutional setting; and sometimes it means finding a child in foster care a forever family. See for yourself.
Partner with Bridges Homeward
Become a Bridges Homeward partner and help support every aspect of our work. By extending your organization’s generosity where it’s needed most, you help us build permanency and strengthen families. Your partnership enables us to continue to help children and families in Massachusetts.
Bridges Homeward gave me the best support I could have had during my hard times.
— Bridges Homeward Parent
Congratulations to Howard and Shane who will be finalizing Shane’s adoption on National Adoption Day in 2024!