Supporting Foster Families
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Purchases for families
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Matching foster families with volunteers to help support them
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Providing training opportunities for families and community
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Donate supplies to area foster closets
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Hosting family fun events
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Weighted blankets for kids
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Equine therapy options
Trauma Weighted Blankets
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Foster Children in Grant, Codington & Brookings Counties.
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Provide handmade, sewn to child size and weight, blankets to provide deep pressure touch, promote relaxation and help break the cycle of trauma stress, anxiety, and depression.
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Details needed in email:
1. Childs Height from CHIN to Toes
2. Childs Weight
3. Two Favorite Colors
4. Your Name
5. Contact info and address
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Click here to request:
Suitcases of Love
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Provide each child with their very own suitcase to replace the trash bag carrying their belongings.
WRAP around volunteers
Volunteers are interviewed by our board to listen to your interests and reasons why you would like to be matched. If this commitment is something you want to join, we match you with a foster family that would like some extra support.
A WRAP around volunteer is there to help the foster family in a variety of ways. Most often those include child care, helping transport to and from activities or appointments, doing fun things with the children, making meals, running errands, or just an ear for listening.
Our volunteers go through a screening process developed by SD Kids Belong and Department of Social Services.
We have needs for volunteers throughout the state! Almost every town in South Dakota can use volunteers.
Foster Child Summer Camp Scholarships
Foster children have the chance to go to Royal Kids Camp to enjoy a week of unconditional love and acceptance during the summer. We would like to help pay a portion of those costs it takes to attend.
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Royal Family KIDS Camp is a week-long overnight summer camp for children ages 7-11 who have been or currently are in foster care. Our Sioux Empire chapter serves children in Southeast South Dakota in Minnehaha and Lincoln Counties.
At Royal Family Kids Camps our campers receive one on one attention from safe, caring adults modeling a non-violent, positive way of life as an alternative to many of the negative, abusive situations which children of abuse and neglect have faced. For one week, instead of operating in survival mode, they can just be kids. With tea parties, crafts, woodworking, birthday parties, music, dress up and much more, these kids can feel “normal” and once again dream, believe and find new hope for their future.
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Request here:
Area Supply Closets
Grant County Area
