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Opportunities to Serve
Mentoring Foster Children & Youth
Backpacks & School Supplies
• Financial Support Opportunities
Foster Care Ministry Partners
Foster Care Ministry Plan

Foster Care Ministry Handbook (.doc)

Foster Care Ministry Contact
Action Ministry Center
805-987-0300

MINISTRIES


Foster Care Ministry
Financial Support Opportunities
to Serve Foster Parents, Children and Youth
A Ministry Serving Foster and Adoptive Parents, Children and Youth

Thank you for your interest in serving foster parents and foster children and youth in Ventura County by giving through ACTION. Checks should be made payable to ACTION, with a note designating the funds to the Foster Care Ministry or to one or more of the funds below. Our mailing address is: ACTION, 406 Constitution Avenue, Camarillo, CA 93012. If you need more information, please contact the Action Ministry Center at 805-987-0300.

Summer Camp Fund - Sponsoring a Foster Child or Youth to go to a Summer Camp generally comes to about $500. Your gifts to this Fund will be distributed to the Royal Family Kids Camps (ages 7-11) and the Teen Reach Adventure Camp (ages 12-15) in Ventura County to enable foster youth to go to camp. These are church-sponsored camps, which use the Christian camping ministry developed by Royal Family Kids Camp.

Adoptive and Foster Parent Fund – This Fund will help relieve financial pressures on foster and adoptive parents by paying for one-time expenses. We focus on helping these families, as well as children who are being re-united with their biological families. We work in partnership with the Children’s Auxiliary and other foster care agencies to help these families.

Backpacks and School Supplies – Foster Children or Youth are often living in Group Homes or with families whose finances are stretched very thin. You can help by donating cash or by purchasing a backpack and school supplies and making an in-kind donation of that. ACTION runs this ministry on a year-round basis and partners with a number of agencies who serve foster and disadvantaged children and youth. The time when most backpacks and school supplies are distributed is in August each year; but, you or your church can donate at any time of the year. Check with us first, because we can often help stretch your contribution dollars. | More >

Education Fund – Contributions to this Fund will help foster youth continue their education after high school. ACTION will administer this Fund by working closely with the TEACh Scholarship Fund and contributions can be made to ACTION or directly to the Ventura County Community Foundation on behalf of TEACh. The TEACh Fund provides scholarships to foster youth who have graduated from high school and are going on to a community college, 4-year college or vocational school.

Housing Fund – Foster Youth are at great risk to be homeless when they “age out” of foster care at age 18. Contributions to this Fund will help foster youth pay for a portion of their housing needs during the transition period from age 18-24. Transitional Housing Facilities and Host Families are two of the programs for foster youth who have “aged out” of the foster care system. ACTION will seek to expand the existing supply of Transitional Housing Facilities and Host Homes in Ventura County.