One Can Help

At-Risk Youth, Foster Children, Underserved Families

Donate Now
 Join Our Email List
  • Our Supporters
    • Become a Supporter
  • About
    • Mission and Vision
    • Our Leadership
    • Annual Report
    • Impact Studies
    • Financial Information
    • Privacy Policy
    • How We Began
  • How We Help
    • Who’s At Risk
    • Why Your Help Matters
    • How the System Benefits
  • Stories
  • For Court Colleagues
    • How to Apply
    • Resources
  • Get Involved
    • Donate
  • What’s New
  • Contact
You are here: Home / Archives for Uncategorized

$25 is not a lot of money, yet it’s holding her back.

October 25, 2018

For this young mom, $25 changes everything

A juvenile court lawyer wrote:
“My young mom client has a baby and wants to support herself. She has a job lined up at Target, but can’t start until she has a Mass ID ($25.)” Can you help?
Yes we can. Thanks to you, our donors!

Activities, Camps, Emergency aid,
Laptops, Clothing, Bus Passes…
Providing the missing resources
that help
at-risk and foster children
move forward.

Share this:

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn

Filed Under: Uncategorized

As featured in the Lenny Zakim Fund newsletter!

August 9, 2017

Isil, Jenn & Anne with flowers from LZF supporters

One Can Help was featured recently in the Lenny Zakim Fund (LZF) newsletter. As one of One Can Help’s very first foundation funders, LZF’s support the last few years has been invaluable. Read the full newsletter here.

Being part of The Lenny Zakim family has meant a great deal to LZF grantee One Can Help and the children and families they serve. “We so appreciate LZF’s support,” says Executive Director Anne Bader-Martin, who began the organization while working as a court-appointed juvenile attorney.

One day, in 2006, while sitting with a pregnant teenager in a fast-food restaurant and listening to her describe her hopes for her baby and her fear that she could not afford a stroller, a man tapped Anne on the shoulder and handed her a check. “Get her the stroller,” he said, and walked away. “We all started to cry,” Anne says. At that moment, Anne realized that people would help if they understood the need. So she sought out colleagues and friends and founded One Can Help. Since then, One Can Help has provided resources to thousands of children and families in the juvenile court care system, who otherwise would have to do without.

“We provide the means to children and families trying to improve their lives and reach higher,” Anne says. “Court is a great catalyst for change, but only if there are sufficient resources to support the process.” More than 80% of the children and families in the juvenile court system live in poverty, and many don’t have the basics most of us take for granted: stable homes, sufficient food, consistent heating, school supplies, clothing, or supervised after-school activities.

“What makes our organization unique,” Anne says, “is that we provide critical resources to all children in juvenile court, as well as their parents, because we know that assistance may even prevent the need for foster care, which is traumatic for kids.” Using an innovative approach, One Can Help collaborates directly with a child’s attorney or DCF social worker. This efficient partnership results in applicants getting help in one to three days, with minimal staffing costs.

“Can you imagine treating patients in a hospital without medicine? That is what it feels like in court, when no resources are available,” Anne says. “It’s like the quote from Lenny himself, which makes us feel like LZF truly understands what we’re doing… to make(ing) vulnerable people’s lives better-people who have the will, but lack the means. Lenny’s goal was to provide the means. That’s the goal we share with him every day.”

Share this:

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Join Our Email List!

Recent Posts

  • Addressing Basic Needs to Prevent Court Involvement—Poverty Is the Elephant in the Room
  • Mention in Good People Fund’s Annual Report
  • Bader-Martin Honored Alongside Other Commonwealth Heroines
  • Frontline juvenile court attorneys and social workers explain the need for your help.
  • 2020 Spring Benefit

Categories

  • Client Stories
  • Events
  • OCH News
  • Uncategorized

Archives

© 2015 One Can Help | All Rights Reserved
© 2015 One Can Help | All Rights Reserved
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
Donate Now
Copyright © One Can Help 2015 to 2021 | All Rights Reserved | Web maestro: ASK Design | Website by Herwitz Associates and Insight Dezign
One Can Help is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit

Inspiring speeches from May’s virtual event are now here!

2020 Spring Benefit Invitation
One Can Help invites you to our

Virtual Event:
Celebrate Changing Lives Benefit!

on Tuesday, May 5th

View invitation here!