What we do.
Customized care kits
When a child enters the foster care system, they usually don't get to bring many of their belongings with them, sometimes they arrive with absolutely nothing. In addition, the foster family often has little to no time to prepare before the child arrives. To make that transition easier, we will provide kids with a care kit that includes clothing, personal hygiene products, bedding, and food to sustain them for the first few days. All items will be custom to the child.
Household help
Parenting is tough. All day everyday laundry, cooking, cleaning, homework, bath time, ONE MILLION QUESTIONS. It never ends. Add fostering on top of that with doctors appointments, therapy sessions, behavioral intervention, trauma therapy, meetings, trainings and the heaviest weight of carrying trauma of little souls. Some days it all feels like too much. Often we meet foster parents who both work outside of the home and are carrying a load that simply seems too large to bear. We want to take some of the weight off so that parents have time and mental space to invest well in their children everyday. Through our Household Help Program, we will pay for a monthly cleaning service to clean your home and we will outsource the foster kids’ laundry through a laundry service.
A "Flower Pot" Fund
Whitney Eagleburger, Foster Kids KC founder, has fond memories of her grandpa’s flower pot that held emergency cash for the grandkids. Much like that, funds will be available to foster kids and families in times of need or emergency.