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)
Description: Creating positive opportunities, relationships, and better overall health for youth who have been removed from their home and are in foster care
Lemieux Family Center
Website: https://www.childrenshomepgh.org
Description: Adoption
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