Children & Families First
Children & Families First champions children and families using evidence-based, equity-centered, and innovative approaches.
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Please consider supporting Children & Families First's Foster Children’s Enrichment Fund, created by a local teen, for DoMore24!
The Foster Children’s Enrichment Fund was developed by Marissa Washburn, a 16 year old former foster youth in our program, who is now a sophomore at Tower Hill School. This fund provides resource families with financial assistance to allow children in foster care to participate in extracurricular activities such as art, music, and sports programs, as well as summer camps. Often children in foster care do not have opportunities to experience these types of special programs and fun activities outside of school. The goal of this fund is to give these children a chance to pursue their individual interests, get positively involved in their community and ultimately to enhance their self-esteem.
Children & Families First currently has 60 resource families licensed to care for children in Delaware foster care system. Raising funds for these children will take some of the burden off their resource family and allow them to participate in activities.
About Children & Families First
Mission: Children & Families First champions children and families using evidence-based, equity-centered, and innovative approaches.
Children & Families First is one of Delaware's oldest and most trusted non-profit leaders in providing the supports and services children and their families need to thrive.
Using the collective strength of our varied professional backgrounds, we are a dynamic, inclusive collaborative of caring individuals who stand together driving positive change in our community by,
- Understanding the brain science research of how trauma impacts health, safety, and well-being,
- Recognizing the prevalence and intergenerational impact of trauma in our communities, and
- Working together building equitable, inclusive, trauma-informed systems of care.
