D.A. Blodgett - St. John's addresses the urgent needs of children and families and assures that youth receive the proper level of support and care they deserve. Your gift will make a decisive difference in our ability to meet the critical needs of children and families
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Homes and Hope Fund
Support from our community is essential for D.A. Blodgett – St. John’s to help the thousands of children and families who so greatly need our intervention. Donate today!
The Homes & Hope Fund enables the following:
We strive to make families healthy and stable to prevent child abuse, neglect and delinquency, as well as enhance kid's physical and emotional health by offering School Services, Big Brother Big Sisters and Sisters in Support Mentoring, and Health and Counseling Services.
Not only do we want children to overcome the difficulties they’ve faced, we desire that they thrive both now and as adults. We offer our kids life changing experience through Enrichment Activities including music and art lessons, summer camp, Wellness and Life Skills Classes and Adventure Activities. We also provide Educational Support through school mentors, counselors and our partnership with Lighthouse Academy for residential students. Donors also provide college scholarship opportunities.
When children experience trauma due to abuse and neglect, we offer them safe, comforting home environments though our Emergency Shelter, Foster Care and Residential Treatment Programs. We also provide them with therapy, 24/7 care and healing relationships.
Understanding that children ultimately flourish best in loving families, through our Foster Care and Adoption Services, we provide temporary foster homes and permanent adoptive families to children who can’t live with their own families as a result of abuse and neglect.
Foster Care and Adoption:
Understanding that children ultimately flourish best in loving families, through our Foster Care and Adoption Services, we provide temporary foster homes and permanent adoptive families to children who can’t live with their own families as a result of abuse and neglect.
Youth Residential Services:
When children experience trauma due to abuse and neglect, we offer them safe, comforting home environments though our Emergency Shelter, and Residential Treatment Programs. We also provide them with therapy, 24/7 care and healing relationships.
Family Preservation:
We strive to make families healthy and stable to prevent child abuse, neglect and delinquency, as well as enhance kid's physical and emotional health by offering School Services, Mentoring Services, and Health and Counseling Services.
Other Funds
Purpose: To provide funds to support the recruitment, matching and supervision of mentoring program matches.
Purpose: To provide funds for the recruitment and training of adoptive and foster parents so as to enhance the placement opportunities for children who are in the care or under the supervision of D.A. Blodgett – St. John’s.
Purpose: To provide household items for families whose children have been in foster care; to provide camp scholarships, sports equipment, recreational equipment and admission expenses for sports events for children in the care or under the supervision of D.A. Blodgett – St. John’s.
Purpose: To provide scholarships, grants, which may include living expense, for vocational and technical career training to disadvantaged clients who have been or are currently receiving services under the auspices of D.A. Blodgett – St. John’s.
Purpose: (1) To Provide special training and instruction for children in the care of D.A. Blodgett – St. John’s, and (2) To provide scholarships for the further study and training of employees of D.A. Blodgett – St. John’s.
Purpose: To provide for mentor volunteer recognition, recruitment and retention projects.
Purpose: To provide music programs and activities for children in the care of D.A. Blodgett- St John’s.
The Maude Fund was created in 2005 to honor Mary Anne Gauthier Streng, affectionately known as “Maude” to her children. Mary Anne served as a tutor at St. John’s Home for 10 years. Her mother, Marian Debree, was instrumental in the founding of Child Haven, the organization known today as KidsFirst.
Purpose: To provide benefits to Foster Care children in the following areas when no other funding source is available such as: (1) Medical and dental needs, psychiatric services, eye exams and glasses, hearing aids, prescriptions, equipment, and medications not covered by Medicaid. (2) Educational needs ranging from tutoring to music lessons, special summer camps, and services to prepare older youth for independent living. (3) To purchase "care bags" containing essential personal hygiene, self-care and clothing items for each child entering foster care.
Purpose: To provide financial assistance with school and living-related expenses for youth entering young adulthood and in the care of D.A. Blodgett – St. John’s or have been served by D.A. Blodgett – St. John’s, with the goal of helping them get through the first two years of college or other post secondary instruction and training. The instruction and training will be limited to the first two years of courses and study offered for academic credit by the Grand Rapids Community College or other post-secondary colleges and technical or vocational schools.
Purpose: To provide funds for the educational success of youth who have experienced stays in our foster care program. These opportunities may include: tutoring to prepare them to take the ACT test, car insurance assistance for college students to assure transportation to attend college, mentoring focused on college preparation (recruitment, training and stipends to support match), develop materials to explain the availability of these funds to youth, foster and adoptive parents to encourage their excitement about the reality of education completion and success, and to supplement college tuition, books and material expenses for youth attending college successfully.