Founders Story 

FOUNDERS STORY

Harmony Haven National Trust

Harmony Haven National Trust was founded by two people who did not learn about broken systems from textbooks — they lived inside them.

Loni (Nikki) Granger and Casey met not through institutions, credentials, or professional circles, but through shared humanity. They were friends first. They learned how each other thought, how each other protected, how each other survived. That foundation — trust built before ambition — is the reason Harmony Haven exists as it does today.

Both founders are survivors of childhood abuse and trauma. Both understand what it means to grow up without safety, continuity, or reliable protection. Nikki also survived sexual violence as an adult and has navigated homelessness, caregiving under crisis, and systemic abandonment firsthand. These experiences were not formative because of their pain, but because of what the system failed to do afterward: stay.

Harmony Haven was born from that absence.

The guiding belief behind HHNT is simple and uncompromising: we cannot stabilize children without also stabilizing the adults they become. Temporary interventions, fragmented programs, and short-term care models create revolving doors — not healing. Harmony Haven is designed as a lifelong continuum: sanctuary, education, healthcare, infrastructure, and community that does not disappear when a child ages out, a crisis ends, or funding cycles change.

Their shared life has included caregiving for disabled family members, navigating the criminal justice system, surviving displacement and loss, and loving deeply — including the animals who became family when people and systems failed. Those bonds, especially the ones formed through care and protection, are reflected in Harmony Haven’s ethos: no one is disposable, and no one is left behind.

Harmony Haven is not a charity project.

It is infrastructure.

It is a systems redesign built by people who know what breaks when systems are temporary — and what becomes possible when care is permanent.

Ohana means family — not just by blood, but by responsibility.

That belief is the foundation of Harmony Haven National Trust.

WHY WE BUILT HARMONY HAVEN NATIONAL TRUST

We built Harmony Haven because the system is designed to intervene — not to stay.

We watched children be rescued from crisis and then released back into instability.

We watched youth “age out” with no safety net.

We watched adults punished for the trauma they were never given the chance to heal.

We watched care end exactly when it was needed most.

Harmony Haven exists to close that gap.

This work is rooted in lived reality, not theory. We know what happens when help is conditional, temporary, or fragmented. We know what it costs when housing, healthcare, education, and emotional safety are treated as separate silos instead of one continuous human need.

Harmony Haven was designed to be different from the ground up.

Our campuses and modular pods are built as long-term sanctuaries — places where children can grow, learn, and heal, and where adults can stabilize, contribute, and belong. Care does not expire. Support does not vanish at a birthday, a discharge date, or a funding cutoff.

We intentionally design for under-resourced, rural, tribal, and extreme-weather regions — places where systems fail first and hardest. Our infrastructure is off-grid capable, emergency-ready, and community-anchored, because safety should not depend on luck, geography, or politics.

This is not about saving people.

It is about building systems that stop breaking them.

Harmony Haven is built on one unwavering principle:

Ohana for the broken, lost, and forgotten.

Family by responsibility. Care without an expiration date.

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Loni (Nikki) Granger

Founder & Executive Director

Loni (Nikki) Granger is the Founder and Executive Director of Harmony Haven National Trust, a national, nonpartisan initiative reimagining child welfare as lifelong infrastructure rather than temporary intervention.

Nikki brings a rare combination of lived experience and systems thinking. She is a healthcare professional, crisis responder, and systems designer whose work spans child welfare reform, healthcare integration, legislative design, sustainable architecture, and advanced technology. Her leadership is shaped by firsthand experience navigating abuse, homelessness, caregiving under extreme stress, and systemic failure — not as abstract concepts, but as lived realities.

Rather than retreat from those experiences, Nikki translated them into structure. Harmony Haven was designed to answer the question she never saw the system ask: what happens after the crisis ends?

Her work focuses on continuity — ensuring children are supported as they grow into adults, and that care does not expire with age, funding cycles, or program eligibility.

Nikki is Choctaw, and Indigenous sovereignty and culturally grounded care are foundational pillars of Harmony Haven’s design. Her advocacy is collaborative rather than partisan, and her work spans local, state, federal, tribal, and international conversations focused on infrastructure, resilience, and human dignity.

She leads as both a builder and a listener, intentionally centering lived experience, community feedback, and long-term sustainability.

At her core, Nikki is a protector — of children, of futures, and of the belief that systems can be redesigned to serve people across an entire lifetime.

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Casey

Co-Founder

Casey is a co-founder of Harmony Haven National Trust and a central pillar in its philosophy of protection, loyalty, and continuity.

A survivor of childhood trauma, Casey understands what it means to grow up without safety — and what it takes to create it when no one hands it to you. His role in Harmony Haven is grounded not in titles, but in lived responsibility: protecting, providing, and standing steady when systems collapse.

Casey’s life has included navigating the criminal justice system, caregiving alongside Nikki for disabled family members, surviving homelessness, and enduring profound personal loss. Through it all, his defining trait has remained the same: he does not leave.

He is deeply bonded to the animals who became family during periods of instability, including Bandit — a kitten he rescued at one week old and brought home to Nikki, who raised him by hand. That act of protection mirrors the heart of Harmony Haven itself.

Casey believes that real safety is built quietly, consistently, and without fanfare.

Where Nikki designs the system, Casey safeguards the soul of it.