From Sore to Soar

Foster Care

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Adoption Assistance - Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF)

    • Website:

    • Description: financial assistance for adopting children with special needs, pay for healthcare

  • Buckner Hope Shines Here (Hope Center & Family Pathways Ministries)

    • Website: https://www.buckner.org

    • Description: Protects children and strengthens families, serving seniors and empowering generations through foster care, adoption, and retirement.

  • Care Portal

    • Website: https://www.careportal.org

    • Description: Connects those who want to keep one child out of foster care, help one family in crisis stay together

  • Chambliss Center for Children

    • Website: https://www.chamblisscenter.org

    • Description: preserving family unity and helping prevent the dependency, neglect, abuse, and delinquency of children by providing childcare, foster care, support, and transitional Living for those out of foster care

  • Citizens Caring for Children (Oklahoma)

    • Website: https://www.cccokc.org

    • Description: Provides clothing, personal hygiene items, resources, and continued support to foster care children

  • Families Helping Families (Iowa)

  • Lemieux Family Center

  • The National Child Traumatic Stress Network

    • Website: https://www.nctsn.org

    • Description: Guidance and resources to support and navigate stress and trauma, find treatments and include a course on child and family stress intervention

  • One Simple Wish

    • Website: Http://www.onesimplewish.org

    • Description: Restores happiness to those who have been impacted by the trauma of foster care and childhood crisis with wish list so others can experience love, hope & joy

  • Together We Rise

    • Website: Https://www.togetherwerise.org

    • Description: Transforming the way youth navigate the foster care system, higher education scholarships to aging out youth seeking continuing education, must have been in foster care for a minimum of 12 months

$ Funding Opportunities

  • Care Portal (see above) - Care items

  • Missouri Department of Transportation sponsors education training for foster care

  • One Simple Wish (see above) - A wishlist for foster children

  • Together We Rise (see above) - Continuing Education Scholarship

* Toolkits & More

  • Department for Children and Families (DCF) (see above) - Adoption Assistance

  • Citizens Caring for Children (see above) - hygiene products

  • Department for Children and Families (DCF)

  • The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (see above) - Curriculum

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