Santa Cruz County
Each month we post a wish list for a different organization in town. It is our hope that people in the community who see this list might be able to help meet these needs in some way. If you have a wish list you would like posted, please send us an email with your attached wish list. If everyone gives just a little, we can help others.
The need for caring families willing to provide a foster (and, potentially permanent) home to kids who have been removed from their parents' homes is overwhelming. For the month of September, 2008, the latest month for which we have statistics, the State of California reported over 1.3 million total child welfare cases, of which 116,585 were active. Of these, 33,721 were in active referral, i.e. their cases were being worked on that month.
In Santa Cruz County, we currently have 250 kids in foster homes, 172 of which are in permanency planning, which means the kids are not going to be reunified with their family of origin and are candidates for adoption. Nationally, there are over 129,000 kids looking for permanent homes.
- Foster parents
- Newer computers and printers
- Financial contributions to send foster youth to summer camp and other extracurricular activities
- Seasonal donations
- Fundraising support
We are a local Foster Family Agency that is committed to the well being of children and their families. On a daily basis, we help to address community and family problems. We are located in Felton with a satellite office in Sacramento. The Foster families who work with our Agency are in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Benito, Sacramento, Stanislaus and San Joaquin Counties.
New Families, Inc. is about to celebrate its 11th Anniversary as a foster care agency. We were founded by Janet Parske, MA and were licensed by the State of California in June, 1998.
Our mission is to provide non-profit, comprehensive placement services to the foster care community and to maintain ongoing services that enhance and support the lives of our foster children and the families with whom they are placed.
We currently have 22 homes providing a caring and loving environment to 42 children. These homes are supported by our staff of 7 graduate social workers and 10 social worker aides, all of whom hold bachelor degrees.
Glen Arbor School is a parent participation facility for pre-school/childcare that is committed to providing a stimulating environment, care, and education for young children. Throughout each day, we strive to nurture self-esteem, self-sufficiency, self-expression, problem solving abilities, responsibility, creativity, character skills and cooperation among the children and families. Glen Arbor School values a caring, active environment, which consists of teachers, family members, children, and community members.
We are open year round from 7am - 6pm, mornings & afternoons for children age 2 1/2 to 6.
We are very proud to announce our recent "Green Business Certification". Being Green is 
part of our daily curriculum at Glen Arbor School. The children love learning how they can take care of their planet and reduce our environmental impact with such simple steps as "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle".
We need support to help us buy new curriculum-with the budget cuts we are loosing $16522.20 this year from the County of Santa Cruz. These funds support our teacher salaries, and losing them this will cut into our supplies cost.
We are losing 10% of our budget, and still want to be available to our clientele. Glen Arbor School helps support Low Income families in the San Lorenzo Valley with their childcare needs and/or groceries with the help of Second Harvest Food Bank. In 2008 we were able to save 3% of our budget by becoming as eco-friendly as possible. We were awarded with the "Monterey Bay a Green Business" certification in July of 2008.
Our Co-Op friendly non-profit school serves 2.5-6 year old children. Established 1972, Glen Arbor is a non-profit 501c(3) school in Ben Lomond, California, serving the San Lorenzo Valley for over 30 years.
The Literacy Center Education Network is a non-profit organization with a mission to deliver free, high-quality, education material to children around the world. We hope that your children will enjoy playing with our interactive activities and that you will send us your feedback.
We would like to add new languages to our free website so we are looking for teachers who speak any of the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese, Japanese or Hebrew
The Literacy Center Education Network is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization with a mission to deliver free, multi-lingual, professionally-designed, education material to preschool-age children.
Utilizing the power of the Internet, we distribute our education material directly to children in homes, libraries, and schools in every state in the United States as well as in 220 countries around the world.
Our free resource currently offers pre and early reading lessons in English, Spanish, German, and French.
Our project was started with a US Department of Education SBIR contract. Our free resource had more than 30 million page views in 2008!
We are in the Santa Cruz area and are interested in finding teachers who would like to volunteer.
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