Speak Up for Kids
Speak Up for Kids
We champion best-interest child advocacy. Through effective advocacy, the cycles of abuse, violence, and crime are being broken one child at a time, and children’s futures are being rewritten.
Our Programs
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STUDENTS Speak Up for Kids
Empowers students with opportunities to serve and Speak Up for children in the dependency court system.
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Foster Palm Beach
In 2018, we extended our impact efforts creating Foster Palm Beach to recruit more local foster families.
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Flourishing Futures
Ensuring that children in foster care have the tools, support, and opportunities they need to thrive at every stage of their development.
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Guardian ad Litem Office
SUFK ensures 100% advocacy for kids in foster care through the funding of positions and the recruitment, training and retention of court-appointed volunteer child advocates.
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Specialty Court
An award-winning pilot, serving the most complex cases in our county through a round-table team approach and “Early Childhood Court” works with new families toward safe, permanent placement faster.
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Gift-A-Birthday™
With every $25 card, Speak Up for Kids of Palm Beach County will help celebrate a local foster child’s birthday with a CAKE, CARD, and GIFT.
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Music Buddies
Foster kids are provided with music lessons with the hope that some of these children will go on to settle into a permanent place in a school band or become a member of a musical team.
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Parents Speak Up for Kids
Supporting the caregivers stepping up and speaking up for foster children. Because every hero deserves a fan club.
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Embrace Kids
Based on the concept of belonging and inclusion. It exists to lessen or remove financial and emotional barriers that hinder a child’s ability to thrive.
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Life Skills Portal
A comprehensive online platform provides a wealth of resources and support to empower foster kids who are aging out of the system as they transition into adulthood and independence.
GETTING READY TO
UNWRAP THEIR SMILES
2023/2024 ANNUAL REPORT
2023/2024 ANNUAL REPORT
THE PROBLEM
On any given day in Palm Beach County, OVER 1,300 CHILDREN are displaced due to abuse, abandonment, and neglect in their home. More than half are under age 5. Spanning from newborn to teenager, these children have unique physical, social/emotional, educational, and normalcy needs. Children typically remain in the foster care system for a year or longer and cannot return home to their parents until the court allows. While childhood is fleeting, each day feels like a lifetime to a child waiting to go home. These children need community, caregiver, and peer support to know their value and reach their full potential.
OUR SOLUTION
Speak Up for Kids champions child advocacy. We create engagement pathways for our community to promote positive youth development in Palm Beach County. We equip students, caregivers, ambassadors, social workers, and volunteer advocates to SPEAK UP for KIDS and ignite transformative IMPACT. Through key partnerships, we design intentional opportunities to serve and support the children and caregivers involved in the foster care system. Our solution teaches pure reciprocity in giving, builds upon unique talent and leadership skills, and ultimately fosters a cohesive community of compassion and support for all children.
As a vehicle for change since 2008, Speak Up for Kids connects Palm Beach County generosity with local children who desire and deserve to have a ‘normal’ childhood while waiting to go home.
OUR EVENTS
