Treehouse Foundation
The Treehouse Foundation is a non-profit organization that aims to restore and strengthen the health and well-being of children and youth placed in foster care. Our Community model aims to move children out of the public foster care system and into permanent, loving families. Our movement is helping people across the country have the courage to face the fact that we need to Re-Envision Foster Care in America. Learn more
Treehouse Easthampton
Our Easthampton Community is a geographically contained, multigenerational, planned neighborhood where adoptive families, their children and elders invest in one another's lives. It is a village where children find not just parents and a home, but also grandparents, playmates and an entire neighborhood designed to help them grow up in a secure and nurturing environment. Learn more
Our Story
One evening in the fall of 1998, Judy Cockerton’s husband handed her an article in the Boston Herald and said, “I thought you might be interested in reading this.” It was a story about a five-month-old boy in foster care who was kidnapped from his crib. This story was a catalyst, a moment of inspiration for Judy - a business woman, former teacher and mother of two. Learn more
Today in America, nearly a half-million children experience foster care. One third of these children will never return home, nor will they be adopted. Instead, they will spend their childhoods in foster care and at the age of 18 launch out into the world alone and unprepared for life.
Enthusiastic Youth Leader
A Treehouse Angel
A pioneering advocate for foster care families
Youth share many talents
Cooking up a storm in the Treehouse kitchen
President of Beacon Communities
Treehouse is a vibrant community in which our knowledge about what children need for healthy futures is applied every day. Treehouse programs are exciting, bold, and transformative. ~ Harold D. Grotevant, Ph.D., UMASS
