“The expansion of CarePortal across SWVA in the past six months would not have been possible without the team from Virginia’s Kids Belong. Their flexibility, speed and determination to climb the platform learning curve, connect with our network partners and quickly establish working relationships allowed local communities to serve more than 3x more children than they had previously. VKB’s vision has realized whole communities from faith leaders, legislators, child welfare workers, schools, business owners, nonprofit leaders, and health providers working together to serve the most vulnerable children and families.  This is the silver bullet for solving the foster care crisis.  Utilizing Careportal technology just made their vision reality more quickly.  Across SWVA poverty levels are consistently higher than the state average with children being disproportionately affected. VKB’s Stable Communities initiative has resourced more churches across SWVA enabling them to provide high value, high impact items (such as transportation, rent, utilities, appliances) allowing children and families literally be stable and supported by their own community. The real value of the Stable Communities initiative is the connection between vulnerable families and a church in their own neighborhood, so the connection is not just tangible goods being delivered but an opportunity for a transformational relationship to occur. VKB’s leadership and relentless drive is critical in building communities and coalitions across this region.”