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Healing Futures
Meeting Florida families before crisis takes hold
More Than Foundation (MTF) is a Florida 501(c)(3) public charity built around one guiding philosophy: No Wrong Door. However a family first reaches us — through a crisis, a referral, a community event, or a neighbor who cared enough to point them our way — they find a real path forward, not a maze.
We don't claim to have solved Florida's hardest problems. We show up, county by county, family by family, and we do the work that's actually in front of us.
Trusted By
More Than Foundation holds the 2026 Candid Platinum Seal of Transparency — the highest transparency rating a nonprofit can earn.
OUR MODEL: HEAL → STABILIZE → EQUIP
Healing isn't one moment — it's a sequence. MTF's model meets a family at whichever stage they're actually in, and walks with them toward the next one.
HEAL
Trauma-informed care and Mental Health First Aid training, delivered directly in the communities we serve.
Crisis doesn't wait for a referral. Heal puts real, trained community responders in place before a mental health or substance use crisis has nowhere to go. To date, MTF has trained 100 adults in Mental Health First Aid through our Healing Futures initiative in Central Florida — real people, in real neighborhoods, equipped to recognize and respond before a crisis becomes permanent trauma.
STABILIZE
Family Stabilization Kits that remove the immediate, practical barriers standing between a family and their ability to heal.
Food insecurity, missing hygiene essentials, a lack of proper clothing — these aren't background details, they're the reason a family can't engage in anything longer-term. In 2026 so far, Healing Futures events distributed Family Stabilization Kits to over 630 families, supporting youth from under-resourced communities, domestic violence survivors, individuals in recovery, and returning citizens.
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EQUIP
Turning survival into voice.
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Every person MTF has helped heal and stabilize eventually reaches the same moment: they've overcome, and they want
someone else to feel that same relief — that there's a light at the end of the tunnel, and they are living proof of it.
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Equip creates small, intimate spaces where those who've lived through abuse, addiction, incarceration's ripple effects, or homelessness speak directly to others facing what they once faced — and to the youth who need to hear it before they're in it. Not a lecture. Not a performance. One person, saying "I've been where you are," to a room built to actually hear it.
This is the newest part of our model, and we're building it carefully — matched by real shared experience, kept intentionally small so everyone in the room feels safe, and never rushed into something bigger than it's ready to be.
WHERE WE WORK
MTF is active across Brevard, Volusia, Orange, Duval, Alachua, Broward, and Hillsborough counties, with a service
area spanning 12 Florida counties. We go where the real, documented need is — not where it's convenient.
In Duval County, 42% of households fall below the ALICE Threshold — working, but still unable to afford housing, food, transportation, and health care. In Alachua County, 19% of households live in poverty, the highest rate across our service area. In Broward County, 50% of households fall below the ALICE Threshold, the highest combined rate we track anywhere we work.
Behind every one of these numbers is a family — and a door we intend to leave open for them.
OUR COMMITMENT
As stewards accountable to our 2026 Candid Platinum Seal of Transparency, we operate lean — 87 cents of every dollar reaches families directly — and we report honestly on real outcomes, not projections.
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