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Kinship Center’s Ag for Kids campaign unites agricultural leaders across the Central Coast to raise funds for our foster care, relative caregiver, and children’s mental health services by creating awareness in the agriculture community about the needs of youth who cannot safely remain with their biological parents.

We would like to express our sincerest gratitude to all those in our local agriculture community who have been so generous to make this campaign so successful. These funds have made a direct, positive impact on the lives of Central Coast youth.

Kinship Center’s Placement program recruits, trains, and prepares foster parents to care for youth in foster care for as long or as little as the youth need—be it for a day or for a lifetime. Funds raised through Ag For Kids have helped supplement our emergency fund we have on hand for children coming into our care who may need clothing and healthcare supplies, bedding, and other necessities. At any given time, we have approximately 35-50 children in our care. Kinship Center receives referrals from Child Protective Services when children enter the child welfare system and need placement into a foster home.

Our Family Ties program works to increase healthy family functioning for families built by relatives who have stepped up to parent children who are not able to live with their biological parents. This program predominantly serves low-income families and aims to keep children out of foster care and with their relatives. Most caregivers are seniors living on fixed incomes who are experience increasing economic and emotional stress and need additional support to be successful as they begin to care for children with severe past trauma and other emotional and developmental challenges. This program cares for approximately 275 caregivers and 400 children annually. Any relative caregiver can access Kinship Center’s services free of charge.

Kinship Center’s mental health program offers a wide range of strengths-based and outcome-oriented mental health services that annually reach hundreds of children and youth throughout the Central Coast. Clinics are staffed by experienced therapists offering individual, family, and group counseling. Our programs build upon and enhance the strengths of children and families, accelerating their progress toward attaining stability, selfsufficiency, and long-term success. Services are provided in English and Spanish.

Our Wraparound services are strength-based, family-driven, flexible and creative, with the goal of helping the family develop skills and supports to prevent or reduce the possibility of residential placement of their child. A family-based team addresses the needs of the entire family, not just the at-risk child. This family team consists of family members, other community members who have an important role in the family, and Kinship Center’s facilitators or care coordinators, parent partners and family assistants or youth partners.

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