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To increase public awareness of the crisis many families and youth in Los Angeles County are currently facing in foster care. We do this through activities including advocacy work as well as at events where attendees can stop by and learn more at our lawn table.
To improve the quality of lives of children and youth in foster care, homeless, incarcerated or under the supervision of probation through the provision of direct services to the children or to the agencies serving them.
To improve the quality of the lives of children and young people in foster care, homeless, incarcerated or under the supervision of probation through system changes.
Our FCP Adopt a Child Advocate Caseworker (ACAC) program’s backpack project is underway. We provide new backpacks filled with school supplies to our caseworkers’ children who need help with these items. We are seeking donations of new backpacks and school supplies for children ages 5 to 18. If you would like to be a part of this project, or if you would like more information, please respond to our inbox below. We will send you a list of possible age-appropriate supplies and two Pasadena drop-off locations. You will provide and load the backpack for your child and save all your sales receipts to attach to the donation receipt we send you for your taxes. Because schools generally begin in early August, we will wrap up this project the last week in July. Our great thanks for your help.
Volunteers are still needed to provide all the children in the Foster Care Project’s Birthday Club a gift on their birthday.
Our mission is simple: to provide a birthday present to every foster child referred to us by the Pasadena Department of Children and Family Services. We have expanded the Birthday Club to include youth transitioning out of foster care, so the age range is from age 1 to 21. As a volunteer, you will be matched to a child who has an upcoming birthday (suggested gift cost is $25-$40). Once assigned to a foster child or youth, you will be asked to provide the same child or youth a birthday gift every year until he or she is no longer in foster care.
Gifts may be dropped off in Pasadena or mailed in.
It’s time for FCP’s annual shopping spree. Once again, we’ll work with our “adopted” social workers at the Department of Children and Family Services in Pasadena to provide new clothes and shoes for our young people in foster care. In addition to focusing on clothes for school-aged children, we’ll help with outfitting babies and toddlers as well as young people who are aging out of foster care, who may need clothing for college and jobs.
If you would like to help financially with this project, please make out a check to “Flintridge Center” and note “FCP Shopping Spree” on the memo line. Mail your contribution to one of our ACAC coordinators: Rosemary Hyde, 1065 N. Chester Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91104.
Learning Works Charter School recently celebrated the graduation of its 16th graduating class. At graduation these students earned something no one can ever take away: a high school diploma.
The program at Learning Works targets students who did not succeed in a traditional school setting. Based on the belief that all students deserve and can earn a high school diploma, the school provides a fresh start to middle and high school students who have dropped out of school, are credit deficient, or are struggling with discipline challenges at school or in the community. Learning Works takes students where they are, provides unconditional love, and guides them, with no excuses, to graduate
FCP is a proud supporter of Learning Works and has provided volunteer tutors and mentors to assist students in reaching their goals. When school resumes in August, Learning Works will again welcome volunteers to support staff and students. If you have experience as a teacher or an interest in mentoring a youth, please consider being a part of this program.
Children and youth in the foster system are among those most critically requiring advocacy and support. Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs) are helping to address the needs of over 25,000 youth in foster care in the Pasadena and Los Angeles area. This unique program matches children and youths in the care of the courts one-on-one with volunteer advocates—role models and advisors who can offer solace, support, and life-changing outcomes for kids whose lives are in turmoil.