Caring for Kids immediately provides essential resources to meet the urgent needs of abused, neglected or at-risk children in St. Louis County...because kids' urgent needs can't wait!
Did You Know?
» In any given month, the Family Court of St. Louis County provides services to approximately 1,300 children?
» Children come under the Family Court jurisdiction because of neglect and/or physical or sexual abuse by caretakers or others?
» Untreated substance abuse by parent(s) or untreated depression can often lead to a referral to the Family Court?
» Tutoring services, once routinely provided by school systems, are no longer offered in many schools?
» Only $250 per year is made available for clothing vouchers for children ages seven and older in foster or residential care?
Caring For Kids brings hope to children and families by fulfilling these essential needs. The systems serving these children now have an organization to call upon when faced with unmet, immediate needs. With the help of Caring For Kids, children can be reunited with their families and leave foster care; sometimes this requires simply a bed.
Mission Statement:
Caring for Kids immediately provides essential resources to meet the urgent needs of abused, neglected or at-risk children in St. Louis County.
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 is Give STL Day!
Let's Give Our Kids Safe Places to Sleep!!!
We'll be raising funds for BEDS and BEDDING so our kids can sleep safely. Please give what you can to help the children who need so much. Just click on givestlday.org and select CARING FOR KIDS.
Any donation $10.00 or above helps. Thanks in advance from our kids and from all of us at CARING FOR KIDS!!!
Caring For Kids Executive Director, Jan Abrams, was honored by the St. Louis Jewish Light as an Unsung Hero on May 17, 2018. Susan Block, founding member of Caring for Kids, and Tori Bolton Foster, vice-president of the organization joined her at the event where she accepted a crystal award.
Now, imagine the impact we can have on a child’s life when you give to CARING FOR KIDS:
Caring for Kids is proud to announce that Alan Protzel, President of NAILBA Charitable Foundation Board of Directors, presented Executive director, Jan Abrams with a check for $15,000.00 at our recent Fall Fundraiser. These funds will be used to purchase beds for children who have no safe places to sleep in their homes. We are thrilled and grateful to this generous organization for such a wonderful grant, and we will use the money wisely.
Caring for Kids held an election for new officers at their meeting on February 22nd. The following members were elected for one year terms:
The Board of Directors appreciates the hard work and dedication of previous officers, especially Bill Grant who has served as President since Caring for Kids began its work in 2004. New officers will begin their service at the April 26th meeting. Congratulation to all!!
Cardinals Care has awarded Caring For Kids a $3,000.00 grant. Accepting the grant award are Jan Abrams, Executive Director, and Sharon Mink, member of the Board of Directors.
Caring for Kids is proud to have been one of six finalists for the Ladue News 2018 Charity of the Year Award. We're thrilled and grateful to the Ladue News for helping us show the entire community in print how we help children in need.
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Below is an article about Caring For Kids in the St. Louis Post Dispatch on December 12, 2016:
As Executive Director of Caring for Kids, a nonprofit in St. Louis County serving children connected with the St. Louis County Family Court System. I was most interested with the title of the editorial "Where's my Bed?" (Nov. 23) The conclusion that " selfless generosity knows no political boundary" is a lesson well-taught today and every day.
Perhaps more important in the editorial might be the lesson that a bed is a gift of necessity both given and received for every child every day. Caring for Kids receives requests for beds and cribs for youngsters daily. These are children who have no safe places to sleep in their homes. If they are co-sleeping with an adult, the danger of being suffocated is very, very real. The dangers of drug, alcohol and sexual abuse are real as well.
Caring For Kids, Inc.
8000 Bonhomme Avenue
Suite 214
Clayton, MO 63105
Tel: 314.726.5437
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Web: http://www.caringforkids-stl.org
Victoria Foster, President
Dianne L. Brncic, Vice President
Cynthia Harcourt, Secretary
Susan E. Block
Sharon Mink
William P. Grant
Al Levine
Herman Jimmerson
Laura Adam
Brad Wallace
Christine Pennell
Tom Steffen
Susie Zimmerman
Lisa Adams Eilerts
Donna Baker
Molly Lamear