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Children's Law Center of California: CLC represents abused neglected or abandoned children.Pop-up Birthday in Austin, Texas, Arizona Helping Hands and Birthdays for All in South Carolina bring the presents to hundreds of foster kids each year. It’s a thing most of us take for granted, but so many foster kids don’t get birthday parties, shockingly enough.Hillsides: Supports foster youth in transition to adulthood, and operates a residential treatment center in Pasadena, Calif., for children who have undergone server trauma and who can’t live at home.
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Kids in the Spotlight: Trains foster kids to make and start in their own short films-a way for those who usually have no voice to tell their own stories.Things that make them feel like a normal person who can move about in the world. Agencies understand that foster kids need and want toys and gadgets, just like any other children, but they also need socks, backpacks, shampoo, wallets. When you look at the lists, they're heartbreaking. That leaves a lot of kids who need so many things.įoster parents get paid a nominal fee by the state or county to cover expenses of caring for an extra child, but extras are not covered - sports and school fees, prom dresses, books, birthday presents and entertainment, and even some basic necessities, like luggage to haul belongings from home to home. Some of them were reunited with their families. If anyone needs help from strangers, it's these kids-in 2015, there were some 671,000 kids in foster care. After a messy bout of gushing and tearing up at her big-heartedness, I got to work to look for organizations that can help foster kids and those in group homes.