Being There: The Act of Spreading Hope
25 years of healing, growing, and showing up for children and families.
2025 Community Impact Report
A Message from Our President & CEO
Dear Friends and Partners,
Twenty-five years ago, the Center for Child Counseling was built on a simple, fierce belief: that every child deserves to be seen, supported, and provided the chance to heal their hurt. In 2025, that belief rolled into a neighborhood near you.
The launch of our Mobile HOPE Unit was, for me, the image of this year. Not because it was our most critical initiative — we launched many — but because of what it represented. We have always known that waiting for children to come to us means too many children never arrive. So we came to them. That is what Being There means. It is a strategy, a commitment, and now, a vehicle.
HOPE is not a feeling. It is a strategy. And 2025 was the year we proved, again, that it works.
This year also marked the launch of our 2025–2028 Strategic Plan — a roadmap built not just on where we have been, but on the boldness of where we are headed. Expanding our reach into communities that have long needed us. Advancing excellence in every clinical, programmatic, and operational dimension.
I am humbled by the partnerships that took shape this year. Standing alongside Dr. Nadine Burke Harris at our 10th Anniversary Lead the Fight event, I was reminded that the work happening in Palm Beach County is part of a national conversation — and that Center for Child Counseling has earned a place at that table.
Our teams never looked away. Not from the families with the most complex needs. Not from the systems that needed to change. Not from the bold new programs that we launched even as we sustained and deepened everything already underway.
Thank you — for believing, for giving, for showing up alongside us. Keep spreading hope.
With deepest gratitude,
Renée Layman