"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can." – Hillary Clinton

"Beyond The Best Interest Of A Child™", a National Initiative of the Stephanie Starks HOPE Foundation, is designed to help aid children's needs and rights for education, health insurance, medical care, daycare, pre-school education, after-school programs, hunger prevention, drug and violence prevention and an appreciation of themselves, others and their environment. The future of America will only be as bright as the future of our children. In today's society, we have to band together as a village and raise our children. We have to provide stable and safe environments that cultivate our children's dreams. If we fail our children, we will only be failing ourselves.

It is the hope of the Stephanie Starks HOPE Foundation (SSHF) to educate and help children grow into informed, healthy, productive and active member's of society. We do this through several programs under our Beyond the Best Interest of A Child National Initiative.

Dreams Count™ National Initiative

Dreams Count™ helps cultivate a child's dreams by matching them with motivating mentors. Dreams Count and through supporting our children, we can help them to realize and achieve their dreams.
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Beyond The Best Interest Of A Child Parent Awareness™

Parent Awareness assists parents and empowers them with resources that which enable them to be more informed, productive parents. This programs helps identify parents who qualify for governmental and private programs, and matches them with good child care providers to help aid in their chid care needs.
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Project Give HOPE™ “For A Hunger-free National Community”

Project Give HOPE™ “For A Hunger-free National Community” is an Initiative of SSHF to help eliminate hunger in our children. Everyday in America, a child goes to bed hungry. Over 12 million children live in poverty and millions more are hungry, at risk of hunger, live in inadequate housing or are homeless. Almost three out of four children living in poverty live in working families. With the economy in the condition it is - lost jobs and rising health care, daycare and gasoline costs - parents, especially working, single-parent families, are finding it difficult to survive. This program is designed to help aid parents by providing them with Care Boxes to aid them during the month. Each Care Box contains enough food to feed a family of four for one week. We will also provide the parents with personal hygiene boxes that will include items like toothpaste, deodorant, etc.

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Project Give HOPE™ For Health

Project Give HOPE™ For Health a national initiative, was developed to provide health insurance to the more than 9 million children in America who are uncovered. The Stephanie Starks HOPE Foundation has joined the efforts of Children Now, the Children’s Defense Fund, and The Children’s Partnership to support the 100% Campaign, to ensure that all children obtain the health care coverage they need to grow up healthy and strong.
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I Am Beautiful, You Are Beautiful, We Are Beautiful™

I Am Beautiful, You Are Beautiful, We Are Beautiful™ is designed to educate and build a girls' self-esteem, boost their overall self-image and to instill in them an appreciation and respect for themselves and others.
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Let’s Make The World Beautiful™

Let’s Make The World Beautiful™ is an initiative designed to help a child become more aware of society and the environment in which they live. Through "Litter Clean Up Day", we teach the children to respect the environment. We can all join in and help clean up America and make our world Beautiful.
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Project Read for HOPE™

Project Read for HOPE™, a national initiative of the Stephanie Starks Hope Foundation (SSHF), was developed to promote reading and literacy among our children.
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March 30, 2005 - SSHF's Project Read for HOPE(TM) to donate over
5,000 new children books on April 5, 2005
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