Essentials Program
Meeting the needs of foster parents, kinship families and the children in foster care.
Handle With Care
Comfort bags with essentials for children being removed from their homes. No child deserves a trash bag.
Clothes Closet
Our clothes closet is curated to ensure each child has enough clothes to express themselves.
Supporting Success
Helping older youth and young adults aging our of foster care reach success as independent adults.
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Programs & Events
Connect to Careers’ Mission is to assist the Fostering Futures and Independent Living participants of Hampton Roads
Foster Care to successfully transition into the workforce.
Through this partnership, young adults will obtain 5 goals, in no particular order: (1) transportation plan, (2) master resume and interviewing skills, (3) housing plan, (4) budgeting and financial planning, and (5) additional education or job training.
Program Spotlight:
400
Wishes granted
517
Handle With Car Bags
663
Essentials requests
613
Clothing Requests
726
Birthday Bags
336
Supporting Success Requests
1245
Coats
1623
Backpacks with school supplies
Our Numbers
Since our inception in 2014, CWW has continuously added new and innovative programs to support the local foster care population. We serve not only children in the Virginia Beach foster care system but their potential and current foster families, those children deemed old enough to "live independently" within the system, those aging out of the system, children at risk of entering the foster care system, and kinship families. This includes children & foster families in Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Suffolk, and Newport News.
Here are some numbers of what we have accomplished in the past 10 years.