Fill the Pool for School
About Caring For Kids, Inc.
Caring for Kids, Inc. is a private, non-profit adoption, foster care, and birth parent services agency licensed in the state of Ohio operating since 1995. We believe that each child, regardless of gender, race, nationality or special need deserves a family.
Our mission is to provide children of all ages with the safety and security of a healthy and loving family. Our experienced and professional team is committed to providing the most complete and compassionate services to birth families, adoptive families and foster families.
Ohio Adoptive Agency and Foster Care Agency Services
Based in northeast and central Ohio, we provide adoption and foster care services.
- Birth and adoptive parent supportive services
- International and domestic homestudies
- Pre- and post-placement training
- Foster care certification
Caring for Kids believes excellent communication is the foundation of every good relationship, therefore we make communication with our clients and their families our highest priority.
The Caring for Kids team is available to guide families, answer questions, and offer support before, during, and after adoptive and foster placements. No question is too small for us to answer! Many of our staff members have personally adopted and/or fostered children, allowing them to provide families with first hand insight.
We know your family has many available options when choosing an adoption and/or foster care agency, but we believe that our experience and compassion help us stand out from the rest. The Caring for Kids team looks forward to hearing from you and helping your family find fulfillment through adoption and/or foster care. Contact our office to get started today!
Our Objectives
- To provide a safe and nurturing temporary home to children in need of a foster home.
- To provide a safe and loving permanent family to children in need of an adoptive home.
- To council pregnant women and their partners, who are considering making an adoption plan, on all options available to them while providing a high level of support, education, and guidance.
- To provide post adoption support services to birth families and adoptive families.
Our History
Caring for Kids, Inc. was founded in 1995 by former foster parents. The agency began as a foster care only agency, but soon saw the need to find permanent forever families for children in the permanent custody of the child welfare system and began completing adoptions of children waiting in foster care. In 2010 Caring for Kids, Inc. expanded and began the private infant adoption program to serve members of the community that would like to make an adoption plan for their child. In 2011 Caring for Kids, Inc. partnered with the Dave Thomas Foundation to employ a Wendy’s Wonderful Kids recruiters. Today Caring for Kids serves 250+ children annually. Caring for Kids’ main office is located in Cuyahoga Falls (Akron), and has satellite offices in Columbus. Caring for Kids, Inc. serves families and children throughout the entire state of Ohio.
What It Is?
Fill the Pool for School is an opportunity for community partners to make a big difference in the lives of children in foster care by providing the necessary school supplies for them to have a successful time going back to school!
Caring for Kids will drop off 1 or 2 (some groups like to make it into a competition) kiddie pools the first week of June to the group’s location and will provide them with informational postcards so that their people can have access to the supply list with all CFK’s needs.
When Is It?
The group can determine how long in June and July they want their drive to last and CFK will plan to pick up the pools and supplies on or before July 31
What Supplies Are Needed?
(Please only select things from this list and ensure they are newly purchased items!)
- Mechanical Pencils
- Crayola Colored Pencils
- Crayola Crayons 24 Ct
- Crayola Fine Tip Markers
- Crayola Broad Tip Markers
- Expo Dry Erase Markers
- Fiskars Scissors
- Elmer’s Glue Sticks
- Loose Leaf Paper (College and Wide)
- 3 Subject Notebooks (College and Wide)
- 5 Subject Notebooks (College and Wide)
- Three Ring Binders (1 inch and 3 inch)
- Clorox Wipes
(Please only select things from this list and ensure they are newly purchased items!)
Greatest Needs (meaning we need hundreds of each item):
- 1″ binders
- 2″ binders
- Thin Crayola Markers
- Broad Crayola
- Markers
- Blunt tip Scissors
- Pointed Scissors
- Elmers Glue Sticks
- Permanent Markers
- #2 pencils
- Pens (black, blue, and red ink)
- Crayola Colored
- Pencils
- Wide Ruled notebooks
- Bookbags
Also Need:
- Two pocket folders
- Three prong folders
- Scissors
- Highlighters
- Handheld pencil sharpeners
- College Ruled
- Notebooks
- Crayola 24 count crayons
- Calculators
- Block Erasers
- Clorox wipes
- Headphones (not ear buds)
Where do the Supplies Go?
The book bags are packed and delivered to all of our youth in foster care in early August so that their foster parents do not have to worry about setting their children up for success with the new school year.
In Columbus, CFK partners with Fostering Love, Alicia’s Closet and Stitched Together to hold a back to school bash in early August where families can connect, have fun and get their backpacks.
