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Message from our Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Vonee Hill, MS, BSW
Hello,
Philadelphia!
For me, this work is both personal and professional. My passion for strengthening families, supporting caregivers, and preventing unnecessary child welfare involvement comes from my own lived experiences as a parent and the realities I've witnessed throughout my career in human services and child welfare. I know what it's like to navigate systems that are supposed to provide support while feeling unseen, unheard, and uncertain about where to turn. I also understand the fear and vulnerability that can come with asking for help, even when you're doing everything you can for your child. Those experiences have shaped my belief that caregiver well-being and child safety are inseparable. Every parent and caregiver deserves to feel supported, respected, and empowered to meet their family's needs without judgment or fear. That belief is at the heart of why I founded Linked Family Services.
If you’ve found your way here, I hope you came with a sense of hope and the strength that’s carried you this far. Whatever you’re facing—whether it’s exhaustion, uncertainty, or feeling like you’ve been holding everything together on your own—please know this: there is help, and there is healing. And you don’t have to walk this road alone.
After nearly 15 years working in child welfare and human services across Philadelphia, I got tired of seeing the same heartbreaking pattern—calls being made to child welfare before families were ever offered real resources to address their challenges. The truth is, child welfare and maternal health are inseparable. Many calls aren’t made because a parent doesn’t care—they’re made because that parent is struggling mentally, emotionally, physically, or financially, and the right support never came soon enough.
That’s why I created Linked Family Services: to be a place where women, children, caregivers, and families are supported, believed, and cared for from the very beginning—not only after the system is already involved.
Here, we see you. We believe in your potential. And we’re here to walk with you—one step, one resource, and one relationship at a time.
You are welcome here. You belong.
- Vonee Hill, Founder & Executive Director
Linked Family Services
