Sustaining Hope For High Impact Parents (SHHIP) is a faith-based service organization focused on supporting parents with children with extraordinary needs.

Learn more below the vision, mission and values that guide our work.

Vision

Every parent has support when navigating their child’s mental health challenges.

Mission

We empower parents of children with mental health challenges and sustain hope in their journey through peer support, education and advocacy.

Values

Faith: We support and counsel from a foundation of Christian faith and hospitality.

Respect: We meet our clients where they are and honor their time, challenges and perspectives.

Integrity: We apply honesty and accountability and observe best practices in all of our work.

Compassion: We believe high impact parenting is incredibly hard and so we lavishly give grace.

Collaboration: We commit to letting our parents lead their families and work with them on every step.

Transparency: We value honesty in our client discussions and openness in our business operations.

Narrative

Picture a morning that starts ordinary and ends seemingly without hope. A violent outburst. An imaginary voice. A self-harming action. An elopement. An attempt. In an instant, dreams shatter, worry floods and a high sea of doubts replaces peace. For many, this is how a child’s mental health challenges arrive.

Families are rocked when a child suffers an illness. First, by the day’s events. Second, by stigmas. Third, by the healthcare system. Every child facing a diagnosis deserves excellent treatment, facilities and support

However, that doesn’t always happen. Add the words psychiatric or mental illness and reality quickly sobers expectations.

Parents experience the shock of confusing and dangerous symptoms. They grieve the loss of dreams, face limits on autonomy, and feel the sting of stigmas. They face baffling insurance barriers, rationed treatments and outdated treatment centers. The impact is a high toll on the child, their parents, siblings and much more.

None of this is as it should be.

We imagine a day when parents will know their challenges are understood and respected.

We imagine parents experiencing sustaining care in even the messiest parts of the journey. We imagine parents finding rapid, well-funded and equitable treatment options. We imagine parents feeling peace with care delivered lovingly in state-of-the-art spaces. We imagine living life with mental illness and not fighting to get help for mental illness.

Imagination can become reality. Let’s get to work.

Welcome to: Sustaining Hope for High Impact Parents (SHHIP)