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Help our Foster Kids

Your donation helps make a life-changing difference for children in foster care. Many of these children have experienced trauma, neglect, or instability—and your support helps provide the safety, care, and hope they deserve. Donations allow The Up Center to recruit, train, and support foster parents who open their hearts and homes to children in need. Your dollar helps support Foster Kids as well as our other parents, families, and military veterans.

Your contributions fund essential programs that ensure foster children receive counseling, education support, and life-skills training. Beyond immediate needs, donations help The Up Center continue its mission of keeping families together whenever possible. Through prevention services, therapy, and parent coaching, the organization helps families heal and rebuild so that children can safely return home.

A Foster Family's Story

How the Up Center Helped a Child in Need

When Josh and Hannah Lacks became foster parents through The Up Center, they wanted to make a difference in a child’s life. What they found was so much more—connection, growth, and the joy of providing a safe, loving home when it was needed most.

Please help us help more foster families and the children in our community that need your support.

Your Impact

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Impact Stories

Meet Matthew and Kelly—a couple who always knew they wanted to foster and open their hearts to children in need. In this heartfelt story, they share the emotional journ
Meet Matthew and Kelly—a couple who always knew they wanted to foster and open their hearts to children in need. In this heartfelt story, they share the emotional journey of welcoming twin girls into their home, the challenges and joys of being first-time parents, and how foster care has transformed their lives.
When Liam and Mateo entered foster care in 2024, their world had been turned upside down. The brothers were placed with Ms. Parker, a caring foster parent who immediate
When Liam and Mateo entered foster care in 2024, their world had been turned upside down. The brothers were placed with Ms. Parker, a caring foster parent who immediately made it her mission to provide them with the safety, structure, and love they needed to begin healing. At first, the challenges were significant.
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