When you say “YES” to joining our vision, you are saying “YES” to creating a better Jacksonville, like never before.
One More Child is ready to meet the urgent nutritional, educational, financial and spiritual needs of vulnerable children and working poor families at a brand-new campus in the heart of Jacksonville. We will build on our existing success and bring together nonprofit, church, and business partners to lead the way toward revitalization.
One More Child has been providing life-changing hope for children and families from our Jacksonville campus for decades.
Our plan is to continue our successful programs to serve children in foster care, single moms, hungry children, and struggling families in the region, while growing our efforts through an expansion of our Jacksonville campus that will transform your community like never before.
Your generous gifts will:
- Build more homes for incredible single moms and their children who are ready to thrive
- Provide more hungry children and struggling families the resources and support they desperately need
- Meet the needs of foster children and foster families
God is ready to use you to help provide all we need to see individual lives restored and communities strengthened and revitalized.
This expansion will provide the opportunity for churches, businesses, community groups, and individuals to serve together to strengthen the community and make lasting change.
When you say, “YES” to joining our vision, you are saying, “YES” to helping Jacksonville come together, like never before.
what it takes
Shared vision like never before.
Generosity like never before.
Mentorship like never before.
Volunteering like never before.
Prayer like never before.
challenges
Where change is needed in Jacksonville
Support, encourage and equip single moms to lead their families well.
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- 39 percent of households in the Jacksonville area are led by single parents, with the overwhelming majority being single mothers.1
Ensure more children in foster care are in loving, Christian homes.
- In 2023, more than 650 children were removed from homes in Clay, Duval, and Nassau counties (Judicial Circuit 4) due to abuse, abandonment, or neglect.2
- There was an average of over 1,200 children in out-of-home care placements in Clay, Duval, and Nassau counties (Judicial Circuit 4) during each month of 2023.2
- Some of the primary reasons children in Circuit 4 are removed are due to drug abuse of a primary caretaker or domestic abuse in their home.2
Feed hungry children.
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53 percent of elementary school students in Duval county qualify for free or reduced price lunch.3
- 23% of children in Duval county are food insecure (lacking enough food for an active, healthy life).4
- Nearly 1 in 3 of the food insecure children in Duval County do not qualify for federal nutrition assistance programs.4
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Sources
1: Florida Policy Institute, Child Well-Being Index 2023
2: Florida DCF Office of Child and Family Well-Being Dashboard, 2024.
3: Florida Department of Education (2024)
4: Feeding America, 2022 Mind the Meal Gap
solutions
The One More Child Jacksonville Campus Expansion
Compassion Center
The campus will be anchored by a 25,000-square-foot Compassion Center that will serve as a ministry hub and provide resources and support for every program on the campus. The multi-purpose donation and distribution center will provide tangible goods, such as food, clothing, and household items, and life-changing services to children and working poor families in the surrounding area. It will also serve as a resource distribution center for partner churches and ministries across Northeast Florida.
Projected 5-Year Impact:
30,000,000
meals provided
Single Moms and Children Housing
We are building six homes for our Single Moms program that will provide safe, secure housing in a setting where single moms will have the resources and emotional support they need as they work hard to provide for their children.
As part of our residential Single Mom’s program, mothers will live on our campus with their children for up to a year. One More Child staff and volunteers walk alongside the mothers through mentoring and training as they grow towards longterm independence and family stability. The campus also includes space for additional Single Moms Homes during future expansion phases.
Projected 5-Year Impact:
100
single moms and children served
Projected 5-Year Impact:
2050
children and individuals served
Family Resource Center
This large multi-use complex will provide classroom, volunteer, and administrative space integral to the success of our programs on campus. It will offer opportunities for church, business, and community volunteers to serve children and families on the campus and from the surrounding area. Some of its features will include: a Family Market to serve families, a dynamic meeting space to host trainings and opportunities for mentoring and tutoring, a space for hosting foster parent trainings, and an activity center for children to play and families to gather.
Your financial investment can:
Help expand our Jacksonville campus and serve more children and families.
Gifts of all sizes are needed to bring the Jacksonville campus expansion vision to reality. Generous partners have already stepped forward to begin the initial phases of campus expansion. However, additional gifts at all levels are needed to complete the work and impact lives in Jacksonville and across northeast Florida.
CALL 863.687.8811 OR MAIL A CHECK TO ONE MORE CHILD AT P.O. BOX 8190, LAKELAND, FL 33802
(On the memo line of the check, please note “Jacksonville Campus.”)
Our Legacy
Leading the Enduring Mission of Impact
In 1904, Florida Baptist Orphanage opened in Arcadia, Florida to meet the needs of children enduring incredible challenges. 120 years later, the mission is the same – to provide Christ-centered services to vulnerable children and struggling families – but our methods and programming continue to evolve to efficiently and effectively share the love of Christ in transformative ways.
One More Child has been a leader in foster care for decades and has continued to expand its impact into many other important avenues related to child welfare. Incredible community partners and support have made it possible to increase the number of children we serve and also facilitate prevention programs that protect vulnerable children and strengthen the community. One More Child is exceptionally focused on meeting urgent needs and building lifelong relationships with children and families that point to the love of Jesus Christ.
Annually, One More Child impacts more than 250,000 children and families nationally and globally through its work to meet the needs of hungry children, foster children, trafficked children, single moms, and struggling families.
Give hope to Jacksonville, like never before.
Volunteers were busy stocking the shelves with donated goods at the Azinger Compassion Center when the bell at the front desk rang. One of our volunteers Tim hurried to see who was there and was surprised to find a man he had never seen at the Center before. That is how we met foster dad, James.
