🌟 Be the STORM of Change
Aging out of foster care should not mean aging out of support.
STORM Center of Hope & Service walks alongside Pathfinders—youth and young adults ages 13–28 with foster care, kinship care, group care, or CPS lived experience—as they move from crisis toward stability, independence, and well-being.
💚 Our 2026 North Texas Giving Day Goal: $10,000
Your gift strengthens STORM’s Pathfinder Support Fund, helping provide short-term emergency lodging, transportation, essential items, practical life-skills experiences, and follow-through support.
What Your Gift Supports
🚨 Crisis Stabilization — Short-term emergency lodging, essential assistance, housing navigation, and connections to longer-term resources.
🧭 Lead Your Story — Hands-on learning focused on employment, finances, education, transportation, relationships, wellness, housing, resilience, and leadership.
🤝 Supportive Relationships — Life coaching, mentoring, encouragement, advocacy, and connections to caring adults and community partners.
📱 STORM Connect — A private online community offering resources, opportunities, practical microlearning, peer connection, and ongoing support.
🎓 Education and Workforce Exposure — Career exploration, employment readiness, educational pathways, and connections to community opportunities.
🎁 Intentional Giving and Outreach — Care kits, food, clothing, hygiene products, holiday assistance, community events, and other immediate support.
Our Recent Reach
During July 2025–June 2026, STORM reached approximately 878 people through programs, community events, outreach, and direct support. Because some people may have participated more than once, this is a total reach figure—not a count of unique individuals.
Why STORM
STORM is a lean, 100% volunteer-led organization sustained through individual giving, grants, sponsorships, partnerships, and in-kind support. We currently operate without paid staff. Donations support programs, emergency assistance, technology, insurance, facilities, and other mission-critical needs.
🎄 Holiday Harmony and Gifts of Joy 2026
This holiday season, STORM will help reduce hardship through age-appropriate gifts, winter essentials, hygiene products, family connection, and access to ongoing resources—with special attention to teens and young adults who are often overlooked.
Your gift helps STORM respond during a crisis and remain present as a Pathfinder takes the next step toward a stable future.
You may not be able to open your home, but you can help build the safety net every young person deserves.
Our mission is to serve as servant-leaders in our communities by inspiring hope, empowering breakthroughs, and removing barriers to mental and emotional wellness for vulnerable youth and young adults. By bridging the gap between crisis and stability, we advocate for self-sufficiency, well-being, and lasting supportive relationships.
🌟 Help a Pathfinder Take the Next Step
STORM meets Pathfinders through community outreach, practical life-skills experiences, and moments of crisis. Your contribution may support:
$25 — A Pathfinder Care Kit with hygiene products, snacks, and resource information • $50 — Transportation for work, school, appointments, or workshops • $100 — Materials, meals, and supplies for a Lead Your Story session
$250 — Short-term crisis support such as safe lodging, food, clothing, transportation, or documentation expenses • $500 — Flexible support that helps address urgent barriers and provide follow-through • $1,000+ — A program series, outreach initiative, or emergency-stabilization support
Actual assistance depends on each Pathfinder’s circumstances, eligibility, available funding, and partner resources.
💚 Join the Pathfinder Circle
Monthly giving helps STORM plan responsibly: $25 helps maintain care kits and essential supplies; $50 supports transportation and outreach; $100 helps fund practical life-skills programming; and $250 strengthens emergency-response capacity.
You can also volunteer professional skills, facilitate a workshop, serve as a supportive adult or mentor, sponsor a program, provide in-kind services, or connect STORM with employers, housing resources, and community partners.
STORM is committed to providing trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and relationship-centered support.
We recognize that Pathfinders do not begin adulthood with equal access to safe housing, transportation, financial support, education, employment, healthcare, or dependable adults. We work to reduce these barriers by listening to each young person, respecting their lived experience, and connecting support to their individual goals and circumstances.
Our approach is transformational—not transactional. We believe sustainable progress happens when young people feel safe, supported, heard, and empowered to lead their own journeys.
View our current participation opportunities.
Join STORM’s Volunteer Community
Ongoing
Online
Organization name
STORM Center of Hope & Service Inc
Tax id (EIN)
85-0838987
Causes
Social Services
Operating Budget
Less than $100,000
Counties Served
Collin, Dallas, Denton, Kaufman, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant
BIPOC Serving
Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx
BIPOC Leadership
Both the Executive Director/CEO and Board Chair
Address
2201 E President George Bush Hwy Ste. 109