Make A Difference - Other Ways You Can Help

Help Your Local Children's Division Office

• Donate toys, activities or books for the visitation room at the local Children’s Division Office
• Help renovate and repair the visitation room at your local Children’s Division office.

Help Your Local Foster Parents

• Donate Christmas ornaments
• Donate school supplies and back packs for school age children in foster care
• Donate laundry detergent fabric softener
• Donate hygiene items such as toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo and conditioner
• Donate bedding
• Provide valentines, cupcakes, or Halloween candy for a foster child to distribute at school on special occasions

Help Your Local Foster Children

• Donate nice clothes, shoes, coat, underwear, socks, etc.
• Donate toys, stuffed animals, activities, games, books
• Buy a yearbook, class ring or graduation cap and gown for a child in foster care
• Pay for school pictures of a foster child
• Buy uniforms or equipment for foster child involved in activities such as sports and cheerleading
• Buy a girl scout/boy scout uniform for a child in foster care
• Donate finger nail polish, makeup, earrings, or other accessories for a girl in foster care
• Donate a prom/formal dress
• Donate a musical instrument for a child in foster care in a school band
• Pay a child's way into a summer camp
• Pay little league or other athletic fees to cover a foster child playing
• Buy a membership to a swimming pool or YMCA

For more information or to donate items, please contact the Children’s Division Foster Parent Contact for your county. The Children's Division can not accept cash or donations of monetary value (i.e. gift certificates or gift cards).