Needed Items:
Everyday Items
Items needed include office supplies, toy closet gifts and supplies for therapy.
Snacks
Kids First also likes to provide the children who come into the center with snacks while they are here.
Our Mission is TO HEAL THE PAIN OF CHILD ABUSE.
Everyday Items
The following items are requested for everyday use at the center.
- Paper towels
- Tissues
- Crayons
- Arts and crafts projects
- DVD’s (G rated)
- Baby dolls
- Bubbles
- Barbie Dolls (and accessories)
- Journals for therapy
- Hair Accessories
- Books for ages 3 to 17
- Footballs
- Soccer balls
- Nerf toys
- Basketballs (these go fast!)
- Costume Jewelry for all ages
- Wallets (both male and female)
- Purses
- Any type of action hero toy
- Puzzles for all ages
- Games for all ages
- Play trucks, cars, construction vehicles, trains
- Building sets and blocks
Snack List
Normally children are arriving before, during and after school hours and many often are hungry and need a snack to tide them over. We request that all food donations come in single serving packages and please be mindful of expiration dates. The following is a list of snacks the children enjoy:
Individually Packaged Snack Sized Bags:
- Funyuns
- Ruffles Cheddar Cheese Potato Chips
- Cheetos
- Fruit Gummies
- Goldfish
- Chocolate Chip cookies
- Rice Krispy Bar
- Twix
- Kit Kat
- Plain and Peanut M&Ms
- Reeses Peanut Butter Cups
Drinks:
- Yoohoo
- Apple Juice- small plastic bottles or small cartons
- Coke
- Diet Coke
- Dr. Pepper
- Diet Dr. Pepper
- Sprite
- Water-small bottles ( Cans or plastic bottles, no glass bottles, please)
We realize this snack list doesn’t necessarily represent the most healthy snack choices; however, it does represent the snacks kids coming to our CAC, to receive forensic interviews, forensic medical examinations or participate in therapy, seem to enjoy and do request time and time again. Our goal is to offer services in a child-friendly, comfortable and neutral setting, and this snack list brings so many smiles to the faces of children especially the children returning to our CAC after their initial visit. It is not the goal of the CAC to meet the child’s daily nutritional needs rather the child’s caregiver’s responsibility.
Funding for children’s snacks are not grant funded but are made possible by fundraising dollars and average $222 a month.