Engaging the community to provide for the basic needs of children and teens in foster and kinship care.

In 2009, Arizona foster families experienced a 50% reduction in basic needs financial assistance as well as an influx of children in need of their care. Difficult financial conditions on a national scale and the high cost of caring for children forced many families to foster fewer children or to close their doors to new placements entirely. Helen’s Hope Chest was created to reduce the financial burden on foster and kinship families while creating a safe, welcoming, and dignified space for the children in their care.