Youth & Family Programs- Shasta County

📚✏️ Help Our Foster Children Start the School Year Strong! 🎒❤️

Every child deserves to walk into a new school year feeling confident, prepared, and excited to learn. For many of the foster children we serve, basic school supplies can be one less worry with the support of our incredible community.

Youth and Family Programs is hosting a School Supply Drive, and we’re inviting you to help make a difference!

🗓 July 13th – July 17th
🕘 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
📍 Drop-Off Location:
2770 Pioneer Dr.
Redding, CA 96001

We’re collecting new school supplies such as:
✏️ Pencils & pens
📓 Notebooks & composition books
🖍 Crayons, colored pencils & markers
📁 Folders & binders
✂️ Scissors & glue sticks
📏 Rulers
🎒 Backpacks
🧴 Hand sanitizer, tissues & other classroom essentials

No donation is too small. Every notebook, backpack, and box of crayons helps provide a child in foster care with the tools they need to succeed.

Together, we can ensure every foster child starts the school year feeling supported, encouraged, and ready to learn.

❤️ Every supply. Every student. Every future.

💙 Happy Father’s Day from Youth & Family Programs 💙

Today, we celebrate and honor all of the incredible foster dads, fathers, grandfathers, and the many men who have stepped into the role of a father with love, compassion, and unwavering support.

Thank you for the guidance you provide, the lessons you teach, the encouragement you give, and the countless ways you help shape young lives. Whether by birth, foster care, adoption, or simply by choosing to show up and love a child, your presence makes a lasting difference.

The impact of a caring father figure cannot be measured, and we are grateful for each of you.

To all the dads and father figures who make a difference every day—thank you. We celebrate you today and every day.

💙 Happy Father’s Day from all of us at Youth & Family Programs.

Many youth in foster care in California are teens preparing for adulthood—often without permanent family connections.

Programs across the state help support independent living skills, education, and career readiness—but they still need caring adults in their corner.

Connection matters. Mentorship matters. YOU matter.