Title: Amarillo Children’s Home
Author: Travis McAshan
Published: May 6, 2021
Last modified: October 22, 2025

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 Amarillo Children’s Home

# Restoring the⏎  identities of children

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 Amarillo Children’s Home

## Restoring the⏎  identities of children

 If we had to point to one project as the embodiment of the GLIDE ethos this could
easily be it. Amarillo Children’s Home restores the identities of children by giving
shelter, care, and compassion when they desperately need it. This cause was brought
to our attention by GLIDE team member Brooke Miceli, who has donated her time to
their efforts, and once she let us know they needed a new website, our whole team
was thrilled to pitch in.

What we did

 Nonprofit · Design · Development

 Credits

Creative direction: Drew Lyon
 Project manager: Brooke Miceli Content strategist:
Brooke Miceli Lead designer: Marian Brchan

 [Visit website](https://amarillochildrenshome.org/)

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## What We Did

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Overview

If we had to point to one project as the embodiment of the GLIDE ethos this could
easily be it. Amarillo Children’s Home restores the identities of children by giving
shelter, care, and compassion when they desperately need it. This cause was brought
to our attention by GLIDE team member Brooke Miceli, who has donated her time to
their efforts, and once she let us know they needed a new website, our whole team
was thrilled to pitch in.

 [Visit Website](https://amarillochildrenshome.org/)

## Post launch results

 107

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Pages per session

 58

%

Avg. session duration

## At a Glance

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## Centered around stories

From the start, we knew the site would be centered around the stories of people 
directly involved in the mission. This means the children, families, volunteers,
and leadership who have highly emotional and personal connections to the community
ACH fosters. We use background video on the homepage to set a tone, then immediately
ground that in series of first-person stories.

> My favorite part of this project has been seeing  their heart  for what we do 
> at ACH and translating that into a beautiful, high-performing website.
> Darrin Murphy
> M.A.B.C. President

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## In their own words:

_GLIDE recently completed a new website for Amarillo Children’s Home, a 94 year 
old foster care group home. We were thrilled with the process as well as the finished
product! Travis and Brooke were easy to work with and helped us think through strategies
and new ways of communicating what we do. They created multiple new aspects of our
website that added value to our organization, such as an interactive historical 
timeline, video footage of our campus on our homepage, and simple, high impact graphics.
They immediately understood the purpose of our website is to educate the community
in order to increase donations, and they helped us find new and effective ways to
accomplish this purpose. My favorite part of this project has been seeing their 
heart for what we do at ACH and translating that into a beautiful, high-performing
website. I never imagined web designers would care so deeply about the work we do
of raising foster children. I’m so grateful to say we not only gained an excellent
new website, we also added a new partners in our mission of restoring the identity
of children so they can realize their great value and be a blessing to others. _

– **Darrin Murphy, M.A.B.C.** **President of Amarillo Children’s Home**

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