Travelpro® Partners with the She Ready Foundation for Foster Care Awareness Month to Donate Luggage to Youth in Foster Care
The official luggage partner of the She Ready Foundation, Travelpro® will donate at least 1,000 new suitcases in 2021 to positively impact the lives of those in foster care
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BOCA RATON, Fla., May 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ In honor of National Foster Care Month, Travelpro®, the inventor of The Original Rollaboard® suitcase, announced that they are partnering with the She Ready Foundation, a charitable organization founded by actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish, to provide 1,000 pieces of luggage to youth in the California foster care system. As the official luggage partner of the She Ready Foundation, Travelpro® has pledged its commitment to helping improve the experience and self-worth of youth moving through the foster care system, providing a new suitcase to store and transport their personal belo
Innovation Church in Lafayette launches The Foster Closet
Innovation Church in Lafayette is working to benefit foster families in need with its new Foster Closet.
Posted: May 5, 2021 10:30 PM
Posted By: Micah Upshaw
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) Innovation Church in Lafayette is launching the city s first Foster Closet. The donation service was created to meet the needs of foster families here locally.
It s specifically designed to help bridge the gaps that potential foster families can face. The closet creators, Pastors Billy and Mandy Holden say this started from their own personal experience with fostering.
The couple decided to become foster parents about three years ago. That s when they realized furnishing a bedroom, gathering clothes, and getting other child items is quite costly and overwhelming.
Need for foster care treatment, respite providers
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(WXOW) - May is National Foster Care Month, and the Family & Children Center in La Crosse says they need more foster care treatment providers in the community.
The organization is looking for people who can provide a safe, stable, and welcoming home for kids that might be placed out of their home for a variety of reasons.
Vanessa Southworth, director of Minnesota Programs at the center, says it could be because their home is temporarily unsafe for them. It might be because they re having some mental health challenges that their parents are struggling with, added Southworth.
Fostering Youth Independence Recognizes National Foster Care Month
Fostering Youth Independence (FYI), a Santa Clarita Valley non-profit, reminds the public that May is National Foster Care Month as the organization continues its mission to make a difference in the lives of Santa Clarita’s foster youth.
May is National Foster Care Month, and non-profit FYI is reminding the Santa Clarita Valley about its continuing mission to support foster youth in and around the area, as well as what the public can do to help.
“In 2018, there were 437,000 children in foster care nationwide, and over 20,000 foster youth aged out between the ages of 18 and 21 without being adopted or reunified with their birth families,” said Carolyn Olsen, co-founder of FYI. “It would be easy to look at the numbers and conclude that the problem is too big for any of us to make an impact. But, together we are making a difference!”
Raising awareness, supplies for foster youth
By Blythe Alspaugh
Sylvia Roop, foster parent recruiter for SAFY, stuffs duffel bags full of necessities to be given to foster youth when they are placed in a foster home.
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SIDNEY For National Foster Care Month, a local agency is working to set up foster youth for success.
“Our goal as an agency is to provide a youth with a duffel bag every time they enter a home. What some people might not know is that, when a foster family receives a call that they’re getting a child coming into their home, sometimes they have no notice. They get the phone call, and then an hour later, the kid is there. They don’t have time to run out to WalMart and get certain supplies to help the youth feel comfortable,” Sylvia Roop, foster parent recruiter for SAFY, said.