Helping Foster Children Thrive
We Care Foster Care’s mission is to ensure that all children in the foster care and child welfare system thrive by connecting the community’s generosity and resources with a child’s hopes and needs.
This is how it works:
The WCFC Website
Our website offers an online “matchmaking” service for foster children and families who need assistance and the people who want to help them.
Social Media Outreach
WCFC actively reaches out to a dedicated community of supporters who provide everything from cribs and computers to salon services and sports equipment.
The WCFC Help Closet
The Help Closet is a free “department store” where foster care workers can “shop” for new and gently-used, donated items for the children and families in their care.
The effects of childhood abuse and neglect don't stop with the child who has been hurt — they are generational. But when you make a positive change in the life of a child, that change also has a ripple effect — to their children, and their children's children.
2019 FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN
CORPORATE
$500-$1000
BUSINESS
$100-$500
INDIVIDUAL
$5-$100
OUR STORIES OF IMPACT
Important Coronavirus Announcement
Giving Foster Children a Bed to Call Their Own
HOW YOU CAN HELP
We offer several different ways that you can support our program.
Donate Goods/Services Using Our Website
Keep Our Lights On! -- Make a Monetary Gift
Give Directly to Our Help Closet
Volunteer with WCFC
STAY IN TOUCH
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HOW WE HELP YOU
If you are a foster care or child protective services professional – including judges, attorneys, social workers, and more -- in metro Detroit, We Care Foster Care exists to help you serve the children and families in your care by providing the goods and services the child welfare system does not.
If you need to find clothing/dental care/beds/furniture or any other product or service for a child or family, we can help – click here to start your FREE account and let us know what you need.
OUR DONORS
WCFC is proud to have the support of companies and organizations that share our dream of making it possible for metro Detroit's foster children to thrive.
Holy Cross's Samaritan Center has hosted our Help Closet rent free since 2012 — and gave us an even larger home in 2016. www.samaritan-center.net
The Seed Foundation. This private, Detroit-area foundation has been a major supporter of ours since our founding in 2005. Today, the foundation provides year-round funding for everything from new beds to helping make it possible for us to emerge from our former parent organization, the Detroit Bar Association Foundation.
The Faith Communities Coalition on Foster Care. This organization and its coordinator, the Rev. Dr. Kate Thoresen of Birmingham's First Presbyterian Church, has provided us with lots of opportunities to receive support from metro Detroit-area faith communities. www.faithcommunitiescoalition.org
Detroit and Grosse Pointe Rotarians, including the Grosse Pointe Sunrise Rotarians, have supported our work since the 2012 founding of our Help Closet — and in 2016 alone provided “our” children in foster care with over 250 brand new coats through Operation Warm! www.grossepointerotary.org. www.facebook.com/GrossePointeSunriseRotary
