Back2Back Ministries is an international Christian non-profit organization dedicated to being a voice for orphans. Their goal is to love and care for orphaned and vulnerable children, by meeting their spiritual, physical, educational, emotional and social needs that they might overcome their life circumstances and break free from the cycle of generational poverty.
Back2Back Ministries has offices in Mexico, Nigeria, India, Haiti, Dominican Republic, and the United States.
Where they operate
Organization Type
Main Areas of Work
What They Do
Back2Back's programs include:
- Helping institutional orphanages make the transition to family-style care
- Operating their own family-style homes using trauma-informed holistic care
- Breaking the cycle of generational poverty through education and vocational training
- Transitioning Program: Helping orphaned and vulnerable young adults make the move to living independently
- Foster Care: loving families provide care for children who aren’t able to live at home
- Keeping families together and reuniting those broken apart
Residential Care Service Transition Support
Supports they have offered, or plan to offer, include:
- Introducing the importance of family care and reintegration to leaders in the organization
- Strategy and planning for the transition
- Donor and board engagement
- Community awareness raising and engagement
- Partnerships
- Government engagement and linking to systems reforms
- Assessments of children and families
- Family tracing
- Preparing children and families for transition
- Social work or case management training or support
- Staffing adjustments or training
- Use of buildings and other assets
- Developing new programs, including:
- Family and community strengthening
- Alternative family care (including kinship care, foster care, adoption)
- Provide funding for the transition
- General coaching or consultation
- Onsite training, visits and meetings
- Online training
- Phone calls/video conference
- Provision of standards and written guidance or tools for transitioning
- Connecting with others or building a network
ACE plans to support transitioning in Mexico, Haiti, India, Dominican Republic, Nigeria. They typically partner with organizations that are run by nationals in the countries where Back2Back is already serving.