BOOST
Building Opportunities with Optimal Supports and Teaching
Stronger
Together
GIVING KIDS A CHANCE
Grant County, South Dakota
Children & Families
Building Our Families’ BOOST Program provides trauma-informed mentoring and coaching to families identified by our trusted community partners—including local law enforcement, healthcare providers, schools, and Grant County Child Protective Services.
BOOST offers individualized support to help families:
✔️ Build resilience
✔️ Understand the impact of their life experiences
✔️ Develop and pursue personal goals
✔️ Strengthen positive childhood experiences
This expert-led approach equips each family with the emotional tools and community connections they need to thrive—laying a foundation for healing, confidence, and long-term success.
When families are paired with a BOOST Coach, they receive:
✔️ Expert support to build emotional resilience
✔️ Guidance in setting personal goals and understanding life experiences
✔️ Tools to promote Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs)
✔️ Early intervention to prevent involvement in the child welfare system
Our approach recognizes that preventing, identifying, and responding to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) is one of the most effective ways to protect a child’s long-term mental, emotional, and physical well-being. BOOST empowers families to heal and grow—on their own terms—with consistent support from caring, trauma-informed adults.
What Children Need to Thrive: Safety, Stability & Nurturing
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), preventing child maltreatment and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) depends heavily on the presence of three core protective factors in a child’s relationships and environments:
🔹 Safety
Children must be free from fear and protected from physical or psychological harm. Safety means living in a secure environment where they can trust the adults around them and feel emotionally and physically protected.
🔹 Stability
Children thrive in predictable, consistent environments. Stability is about reliable routines, relationships, and surroundings—where children know what to expect and who they can count on.
🔹 Nurturing
Children need their emotional, physical, and developmental needs to be met with care and consistency. Nurturing relationships build trust, self-worth, and a foundation for healthy development.
At BOOST, these principles guide everything we do. By offering consistent coaching, emotional support, and access to resources, we help children & their families build lives that are safe, stable, and nurturing—reducing their risk of harm and helping them grow into resilient, confident individuals.
Keeping Families Together. Strengthening Futures.
Children thrive when they grow up with their own families—safely connected to the people, culture, and community they know and trust.
At Building Our Families, we believe that every child deserves the chance to stay with their family whenever safely possible. Our work focuses on preventing family separation by addressing the root causes of crisis and instability.
We serve underprivileged and vulnerable children by providing wraparound support in key areas:
✔️ Education
✔️ Healthcare access
✔️ Nutrition and basic needs
✔️ Safe housing
✔️ Emotional and mental well-being
By supporting families as a whole, we help children feel safe, supported, and valued—reducing the risk of foster care placement and building pathways toward long-term family stability.