Student health strengthens families in your community.

One More Child partners with schools, after-school, and community programs to increase the frequency of risk avoidance behaviors in students. We hope to do this by reinforcing the risk prevention skills they will need to build their own healthy, functioning families in the future.

What is the Student Health Outreach Program?
We offer a 13-session small group program, serving students in grades 8-12 by providing them with skills to develop healthy relationships, combat challenges they face in adolescence, and support their ability to make positive decisions. We leverage class surveys, pre/post assessments, and post program follow-up tools to ensure lasting results.

What Students Will Learn:
How to strengthen positive personal qualities
Skills for healthy friendships
Effective communication techniques: understanding, communicating, and making healthy decisions
Long and short-term goal setting
Adapting to physical and emotional change: includes approaches to personal grooming and hygiene

Additional Offerings Include:
Support services for families
Ease of access to essential resources such as emergency food boxes, referrals to additional services, etc.

Watch and learn how you can come alongside One More Child to help families in need.

We served 250,259 children and individuals in 2023.

We partner with local churches and businesses to meet the needs of children and families in their community, working relentlessly to show the compassion of Christ.

Help Transform Lives
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RESOURCES OFFERED:

  • Food
  • Diapers/Wipes
  • Clothing Household Items
  • Educational Resources/School Supplies
  • Referrals to Additional Services/Resources
  • Spiritual Mentors

Tangible needs for children and families

To provide for families, the following items are needed every day:

  • Child and adult clothing of all sizes
  • Household items such as kitchen supplies
  • Bedding such as pillows and sheets
  • Birthday kits and party supplies

FOOD NEEDS:

  • Healthy, yet kid-approved, cereals (i.e. Honey Nut Cheerios).
  • Fruits to include apples, Cuties, peaches and bananas
  • Canned vegetables and fruits
  • Oatmeal
  • Peanut butter and jelly
  • Sliced bread and English muffins (wheat)
  • Yogurt
  • Canned meats (to include tuna, chicken, etc).
  • And more!
More Than

2,297

clients served
More than

18,159,804

pounds of food distributed
More Than

53,839,915

dollars worth of in-kind resources distributed

Meet our passionate and empowering leader.

Michael Thomas

Executive Director of Family Support

Michael Thomas serves One More Child as the Executive Director of Family Support – Hope Street, where we are working to transform lives in the inner city of Tampa.

For nearly twenty years, Michael has been a passionate advocate for families and the community through counseling and training others on how to overcome obstacles and find their true passions in life. His philosophy on ministry, as he has been known to often quote is: “People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care!”

Originally from Detroit, Michigan, Michael graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a bachelor of science degree in criminal justice with a minor in psychology.

Michael has been a licensed and ordained minister for twenty-two years and is also a certified Relationship Coach teaching people how to communicate and have lasting relationships through his workshops and seminars. He is currently pursuing a master of divinity degree from Liberty University

Through Michael’s outreach ministries and community projects, he has been able to impact the lives of thousands through his commitment to work with state officials and community leaders to empower low-income neighborhoods and at-risk families. Out of this passion he founded Impact Now LLC, a mentoring program and consulting service for fathers, teen dads, and at-risk males between the ages of eight and eighteen.

Contact Michael

Phone: 813.252.9762

Help us transform a family before a situation goes from tough to traumatic.

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