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Needs List and Care Fund
COBYS Care Fund
At COBYS, we’re called to provide care that goes beyond the basics. Our services are delivered with compassion, dignity and hope in a way that recognizes the uniqueness of each child, adult and family we serve. By designating your gift to the COBYS Care Fund, you can directly support care that includes:- Counseling – We recognize the importance of mental health and strive to provide access to services to as many children and adults across our community as possible. Your gifts help ensure access to care can continue.
- Enhanced Children’s Preparation Services – Each day, our highly trained caseworkers and therapists connect with children in the foster care system. Children receive continuous services, with special attention at times of transition during care, such as moving to a new foster home, being reunited with biological parents or adoption finalization. Your gift helps enhance these interactions; it is the difference between meeting with a foster teen for just coffee or a full lunch. It is the difference between meeting with a young child in a park or going to play mini golf. It is providing a special birthday gift for a teen when no one else can. These things change the interaction; it makes a difference.
- Lessons, camps, educational opportunities and special life experiences for foster and adopted children – Part of our mission is to provide a safe and loving home for children in the foster care system. Our foster families go above and beyond the basics for kiddos in their care by getting them connected with lessons, sports, camps, special educational and life opportunities because they know it makes a difference in their lives. It is also expensive and sometimes isn’t covered by the modest county funds families receive. Your gift helps kids join a soccer league because a sport is more than kicking a ball, it teaches appropriate social interaction. It allows kids to get swimming lessons, go on a field trip or be a part of a school club because these provide life experience beyond the classroom. Your gift also supports adoptive families receiving Post Permanency services from COBYS with these kinds of experiences.
- Kids’ Closet – When a toddler needs a winter coat in size 18 months and we don’t have it in stock; we make the purchase. Kids are special and sometimes their clothing and personal care needs are special too, we make sure they have what they need.
- Unreimbursed Care Expenses: COBYS receives payments for services delivered to our children and families from counties, the state of Pennsylvania, grants, insurances and counseling clients. While we are grateful for these payments, there are often unreimbursed expenses incurred for both foster families and the COBYS organization in delivering the kind of care we know our clients need. For foster families, this includes providing days of care that are not reimbursed by counties. For COBYS, these include human resources, legal, audit and financial analysis expenses. Your donation to the COBYS Care Fund helps ensure that foster families have appropriate resources and that COBYS maintains a high level of operational excellence.