Rainbow Room
The Rainbow Room is our 24/7 supply center located within the CPS offices. Caseworkers can come here to get whatever they need to support the children in their care, whether it’s formula, a bed, a coat, or a backpack. You can make sure these supplies are in stock when a child urgently needs one.
Learn more about how you can donate or host a drive.
Holiday Wishes
Holiday Wishes is a program that helps create positive, magical memories of the holidays for children in the care of CPS. When you fulfill one or more of the three wishes they give us, you can make their holidays a little brighter.
Learn about the different ways you can help fulfill those Holiday Wishes.
NextStep Mentoring
NextStep Mentoring connects older youth in foster care with a caring adult mentor, job readiness preparation, and opportunities to explore careers of interest to them. Volunteer NextStep mentors serve as life skills coaches, mentors, and support career shadowing opportunities for youth to explore their interests.
NextStep Mentoring aims to mitigate the elevated risk of unemployment and homelessness youth who have aged out of the foster care system.
Learn more about how you can support.
KING Mentoring
The Kids in a New Groove (KING) mentoring through music program provides Central Texas youth who have had experience with the child welfare system with a committed one-on-one mentoring relationship through free weekly, private music lessons, giving students the ability to transform their lives through connection and support.
Kids in a New Groove combines the proven effects mentorship can have on youth, with the evidence that learning music at a young age improves reading, language, and problem-solving skills to produce notable improvements in students' grades, behaviors, and attitude.
Learn more about how you can help.
Heart Gallery
The Heart Gallery is a portrait exhibit and community education/outreach initiative that brings to life the beautiful personalities of children who are waiting to be adopted. Even if you’re not in a position to adopt a child, there are other ways for you to support this program and make an extraordinary impact on the life of a child.
Learn more about hosting portraits and other ways to help.
Foster Community exists to support communities and strengthen families. We are a network of nonprofits, government agencies, and community leaders dedicated to enhancing community support for families involved in, or at risk of involvement, with the child welfare system. Our vision is to see all communities come together to keep kids safe, secure, and as close to home as possible.