Sponsorship Stories
- COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL works to end child poverty, meeting the needs of children by fighting malnutrition and delivering medical care. They equip local churches with food kits and help to feed vulnerable children. Every month, we sponsor a child, Youry, and we receive regular updates on his progress.
- This year, Jullian’s Kids became very involved with CARE PORTAL and we are honored to be a contributor. Care Portal is designed to connect churches and non-profits with children who are at risk or already a part of the child welfare system, and invests in the lives of vulnerable children and families to break the orphan cycle. The needs featured on Care Portal are vetted by child welfare professionals who work with and know the struggle of these families. We have met the need for beds, cribs, high chairs, car seats, hygiene kits, clothes, groceries and school supplies. The goal of Care Portal is to help children to stay safely at home, ensure care for children, empower families to thrive, to see fewer children removed from their home and help to prevent children from entering the already crowded foster care system. For example, Jullian’s Kids assisted in buying mattresses for an aunt that had to take in three children, as she had no beds for them. We also supplied school supplies for three children after the parent was removed from the home due to domestic violence and we supplied clothing and shoes for children who had been removed from their home.
- SOPHIE'S PLACE is a home for children in Jamaica with severe disabilities who have either been abandoned by their families or are not able to take care of them. Jullian’s Kids was able to donate a massage table, enabling workers at the Home to stretch the spastic muscles of the children. Our organization also donated groceries for Sophie's Place. A big thank you to Grace Johnson, our volunteer and liaison who worked tirelessly to shop, coordinate and deliver these items to Sophie's Place.
- Jullian’s Kids provided Christmas gifts to children from 4 KIDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA, including, clothing, diapers, and toys. 4 KIDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA brings hope and healing to vulnerable children and families in crisis across South Florida.
- PLACE OF HOPE provides family outreach and intervention programs, initiatives and critical services to families and children who are navigating the public child welfare system. They provide family-style foster care (family cottages) for foster children in need of consistent, structure long-term care. Their primary goal is to keep families together and children out of the foster care system. Place of Hope is ranked first in the nation in youth, shelter and crisis serves by Charity Navigator. Jullian’s Kids was a sponsor of Career Day this summer at Place of Hope. Leadership and Career Day is required for children ages 13 and older. It is held every quarter with speakers giving a Leadership Talk, career and interest assessments. In May, we also blessed 11 graduates gift cards to help them purchase a special outfit for their graduation ceremony.
- Jullian's Kids, Inc., partnered with ChildNet in West Palm Beach to assist youth in the foster care system. Thanks to our donors, we have been able to provide cribs, mattresses, bunk beds, and youth beds to several children. We have also been able to help youth in the Extended Foster Care Program. These youngsters are transitioning out of the foster care system into college and/or the workforce. Jullian's Kids, Inc., is assisting with resources to help accelerate their education and help with immediate personal needs.
- We were able to assist in solidifying an adoption of a sibling group who had been in foster care since 2010. The adoptive parents needed assistance to purchase a triple bunk bed and mattress for the children to sleep on. Placement was not approvable until they had proper sleeping arrangements. Jullians Kids Inc. purchased the triple bunk bed for the family, which arrived just in time for the Christmas so the children could spend the holidays with their new family.
- Baby "D" was removed from his home due to domestic violence and placed with his elderly grandparents. He has thrived in the care of his grandparents and Jullian's Kids, Inc has been assisting monthly with diapers, wipes, clothing, shoes and a car seat since 2014.
- We donated several pairs of pajamas to foster care children for Christmas in Broward and Palm Beach Counties. We also bought six road bikes for foster kids to get around and go to school.
- Assistance of food and clothing were given to retired grandparents who were fostering three of their grandchildren temporarily placed in their care.
- We donated 15 backpacks filled with school supplies for pre-schoolers to third grade foster children for the 4Kids of South Florida back-to-school drive.
- We were able to provide 10 laptop computers to Palm Beach County Foster Youth graduating from high school and going on to college. We participated in the Palm Beach County Foster Youth Graduation Achievement Celebration on June 7, 2018, and were able to distribute the laptops to these outstanding students that have had to overcome so many obstacles.
- We provided tuition assistance to two foster care girls at Place of Hope to participate in a volleyball and soccer league. Both girls excel in school, despite their circumstances, and this opportunity will help them participate in a normal high school experience and help to teach them team work and life skills.
- SafePlace is a ChildNet intake and placement center where children who are being brought into foster care are taken while placement with kin or a foster or group home is being identified. The center is ChildNet’s response to the alternative of children driving around in investigator’s cars and sitting in offices while their placement is being identified, which can further traumatize these vulnerable children. SafePlace serves approximately 300 children each year, and the center’s intake and placement visitation room was badly in need of furniture replacement. Jullian’s Kids, Inc. was able to donate a leather sleeper couch and television for the room because the children also use the visitation room as a recreation space. As Safe Place is a special service that ChildNet provides, Florida DCF does not provide for SafePlace, and so ChildNet depends on donations from outside organizations like ours to assist them with their needs.
- Five year old "J" and 3 siblings entered the child welfare system after Jane's twin drowned. "J" is autistic, and "J" and her siblings were placed with a foster parent. To calm Jane during autistic episodes, the foster parent takes her for car rides and long walks. Due to Jane's size and abilities, she is able to escape from regular strollers and car seats, and requires specialized equipment. "J" needed a specialized stroller and car seat to keep safe when travelling. Jullian's Kids, Inc, was able to provide these items, to help ensure the safety of "J", so that she could remain with her foster parent. and her siblings.
