The Fostering Hope Closet is blessed to partner with Diaper Bank of the Ozarks to distribute over 5000 diapers, pull-ups, and adult diapers to foster, kinship, guardianship & adoptive families annually.

Each month, families can receive one package of diapers and wipes per diapered child in their care. This eases the financial burden on foster families who are raising these vulnerable children.

Most foster children enter a foster home with zero belongings. Often the case workers aren’t even sure of the correct size of diapers needed, meaning various sizes are required to find the right fit. 

Prom is a special time for young adults, yet many of them cannot afford $500+ to purchase a dress, suit, shoes, jewelry and other items to make it a night to remember.

The Prom Closet is open to anyone in the community and is blessed to offer over 600 formal dresses, 100 suits/suit coats, 250 formal shoes, dress shirts & ties, hair styling products, & jewelry.

All formal items are provided free of charge to foster, kinship, guardianship & adoptive families and for the general public, for only a donation of $50 or 5 hours of volunteering at the Fostering Hope Closet.

If you have formal wear to donate or are in need of formal wear for any occassion, please contact us!

When a child is born into a needy family
they may only have a shirt and diaper to leave the hospital. When they arrive home if there is a home, there may not even be a warm blanket or quilt to wrap them. Newborns in Need aims to help solve that by creating layettes filled with many items they have made or that have been donated including:

• Sleepers
• Blankets or Quilts
• Book
• Hats
• Soft Toy

C&N Hair Care Kits were a project of Ciaria Keeney & Neva King through their Go CAPs course. This project holds a special place in the hearts of these biracial girls growing up in a rural, mostly white community.

The bags include a variety of products, styling equipment & tutorials to assist foster and adoptive families on their learning journery with ethnic hair.

The kits contain over $50 of items each and are available for free to any foster, kinship, guardianship or adoptive family in Missouri who has a child with ethnic hair.

Children in foster care have to abondon most of their belongings, and what little they are allowed to take is typically carried in a trash bag. This is extremely difficult & degrading for foster youth.

The Sweet Case Duffle Bag program began over a decade ago through Together We Rise as a way to ensure that children can move from placement to their forever home with dignity. These duffles are filled with clothing, shoes, and other items from the Fostering Hope Closet.

Each kit contains

• Hygiene Kit
• Warm Blanket
• Plush Teddy Bear
• Box of Crayons
• A Fun Activity Booklet
• Custom Decorated Duffle

Superhero boxes from Together We Rise combat the uncertainty and depression children often feel while in foster care. Imagine being ripped away from everyone and everything you know. Entering foster care is a trauma that adds to the trauma that brough them into foster care originally. 

The goal of Superhero Boxes is to help foster youth feel S.U.P.E.R. (Self Assured, Uplifted, Proud, Empowered, & Resilient)!

Each Superhero Box includes:

• Mask & Cape
• Bracelet & Power Cuffs
• Pillowcase
• Pencil & Eraser
• Superhero Tattoos
• Official Superhero Membership Card