🏗️ Building Hope Close to Home
Angels Among Us is raising funds to build the first Special Needs Family Resource Center serving the Short Creek Area. Every donation helps bring therapy, recreation, caregiver support, and trusted resources closer to home.
Support Our MissionAbout Us
Angels Among Us Foundation was born from a simple conviction: every child with a disability deserves the opportunity to belong, grow, and thrive — close to home, surrounded by community. We are building that future together.
To build the first Special Needs Family Resource Center serving the Short Creek Area — a permanent home where children with disabilities can access therapy, inclusive recreation, Family Navigation, and a community that believes every child belongs.
A Short Creek where every child is known, celebrated, and supported. Where a diagnosis is not a ceiling — and where families find hope, connection, and the resources they need without leaving their community.
We are neighbors, parents, educators, and volunteers united by one belief: inclusion makes everyone stronger. Our community is built one connection at a time — in Short Creek, for Short Creek, for generations to come.
Why Angels Among Us Exists
Future campus rendering — Angels Among Us Family Resource Center
Angels Among Us was not born in a boardroom. It was born somewhere much more ordinary — in the daily reality of raising a child with a disability in a rural community, where finding the right therapy meant clearing your schedule for the day, where a specialist appointment required crossing state lines, and where something as simple as inclusive recreation felt like a luxury that existed somewhere else. For other families.
We know those drives. We know the waiting rooms in cities hours away. We know what it feels like to watch your child thrive in a program you can barely afford to reach — and to wonder, quietly, whether families with fewer resources ever get there at all. In Short Creek, too many do not.
That realization changed everything. Because this was never just about our child. It was about every child in this community who deserves access to therapy, to trusted guidance, to meaningful recreation, to a place where they are known and celebrated — without their family having to leave the community they love to find it.
"No family should have to travel hours just to feel supported. That is why we are building something right here."— Angels Among Us Foundation
So in 2023, we founded Angels Among Us — not as a distant organization sending resources from afar, but as neighbors. As parents. As people who live here and intend to stay. We are building the first Special Needs Family Resource Center for the Short Creek Area, because we believe our community deserves a permanent place where hope is not something you have to drive to find.
We are building more than a resource center. We are building a place where children with disabilities are celebrated for exactly who they are, where families find connection and guidance close to home, and where future generations — children not yet born, families not yet here — will grow up knowing they belong. That is the vision. And we would love for you to be part of building it.
Every child is welcomed. Every family is seen. No one navigates alone.
Neighbors become community. Community becomes strength.
Close to home, within reach — for every family, regardless of circumstance.
Built for today. Enduring for generations yet to come.
Our Foundation
Angels Among Us Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity, established in 2023 and rooted in the Short Creek Area. We are not a distant organization sending resources from afar — we are neighbors, parents, and community members who chose to build something lasting right here.
Every dollar donated, every hour volunteered, every partnership formed goes directly toward building the future we have promised — a place where children with disabilities can access the support they deserve, and where families can find community without leaving the community they love.
We are not finished. Short Creek is growing, and the needs of its families are growing with it. But the foundation does not shift: every child belongs, every family matters, and community is something we build together — right here, one connection at a time.
By the Numbers
Every number here represents a family that no longer walks alone, a child who found their place, and a community that chose to show up.
What We Stand For
We lead with possibility. Every child has a future worth building toward — and we are committed to helping build it, one step at a time.
No family navigates alone. We create the connections, spaces, and community that turn neighbors into a lasting support network.
Every child is seen as whole — not defined by a diagnosis, but celebrated for exactly who they are and who they are becoming.
We focus on what children can do, and create the conditions for them to discover their own strength, joy, and potential.
Our Vision
Angels Among Us is building a permanent Family Resource Center where children with disabilities and their families can find belonging, opportunity, trusted support, recreation, and community — all close to home. Four spaces. One vision. A future that belongs to every family in Short Creek.
Every child deserves the opportunity to belong. Every family deserves support close to home. Together, we are building that future.
See how we are building itCaregiver Support
Raising a child with significant support needs is one of the most profound acts of love a person can offer. It is also one of the most exhausting. Not because the love runs out — it never does — but because the weight of that love is carried almost entirely alone.
Many caregivers in Short Creek spend their days navigating a maze of therapy appointments, school meetings, medical specialists, and service systems that were not designed with their family in mind. They become experts in their child's diagnosis not by choice, but by necessity. They learn to advocate loudly in rooms where they feel invisible. They carry a calendar full of appointments and a heart full of worry — and they do it again tomorrow.
The vigilance required to protect a child who cannot always communicate distress is a particular kind of exhaustion. It does not clock out. It follows caregivers into sleep, into quiet moments, into the spaces where rest is supposed to live. Over months and years, that sustained alertness takes a real toll — on physical health, on marriages, on siblings who learn early that their needs come second, on careers quietly set aside.
"Many families spend years living in survival mode — not because they are struggling, but because the system asks them to."
Respite care — the simple gift of a few trusted hours — is something many families cannot access. When a child has complex communication needs, leaving them with someone unfamiliar is not a small ask. It is a risk that many parents are not willing to take, even when they are running on empty. So they stay. And they carry on.
Compassion fatigue is real. Caregiver burnout is real. Isolation — the quiet kind that comes from feeling like no one else truly understands — is real. These are not signs of weakness. They are the natural result of extraordinary love sustained without adequate support.
Angels Among Us exists to support the entire family — not only the child. We believe that when a caregiver receives encouragement, trusted resources, genuine respite, and a community that truly understands, something remarkable happens: the child thrives, the family grows stronger, and the whole community benefits.
Family Navigation, caregiver support, and community connection are not extras. They are the foundation. Because a parent who feels seen and supported can show up more fully for their child. And a child who grows up surrounded by that kind of community grows up knowing, without question, that they belong.
Every child deserves a place to belong. Every caregiver deserves a place to breathe.
"The future we are building is not just a place. It is a promise — that in Short Creek, every child will grow up knowing they belong."— Angels Among Us Foundation
Our Community
Angels Among Us is building the first Special Needs Family Resource Center serving the Short Creek Area. Together with generous donors, volunteers, business partners, and community supporters, we are creating a place where children with disabilities and their families can find belonging, trusted resources, recreation, and hope — close to home.
With Gratitude
We are deeply grateful for every donor, volunteer, sponsor, and community partner who is helping bring this vision to life.
Join Us
Whether you donate, volunteer, or simply share our vision — every act of support helps build a future where families in Short Creek know they are not alone. This is a legacy investment in children and community that will endure for generations.
Ways to Help
Angels Among Us Foundation Inc. · 501(c)(3) Public Charity
1312 East Red Sage Lane · Apple Valley, UT 84737
Angels Among Us Foundation is currently in the fundraising and development phase.
Our website shares trusted community resources and our long-term vision for a Special Needs Family Resource Center. While we are not yet providing direct services, every donation, sponsorship, volunteer, and community partnership brings us one step closer to opening our doors and serving families throughout the Short Creek Area.
