This year, we continue focusing on our Kid’s Enrichment Fund — a special fund designed to bring joy, growth, and opportunities to local foster youth. While many programs in the county provide funding to cover essential needs, our Kid’s Enrichment Fund goes a step beyond. It ensures that these kids can experience the same joys and growth opportunities as their peers, giving them access to activities and items that support their unique interests, talents, and dreams.

How Your Gift Will Help: The Kid’s Enrichment Fund empowers foster youth with experiences and items that most other programs cannot cover, including:

Extracurricular Activities: Sports classes, music lessons, and art programs that build skills and confidence.
Essential School Items: Yearbooks, graduation photos, and school event fees that help them feel part of their community.
Personal Essentials: New shoes, sports gear, and other items that make them feel seen, valued, and prepared.
Even better, the Rick and Marcie Sexauer Foundation will match all gifts up to $5,000!

Presented by Greater Richmond SCAN Community Programs
his training will provide a brief review of trauma and its impacts as well as introduce the 7 Cs of building resilience. Participants will learn about adverse and positive childhood experiences as well as strategies for building individual and community resilience.

CE Hours: 2

Presented by Foster and Kinship Care Education
Instructor: Dr. Judy Sullivan Osterhage
Come back to the heart of play in the age of technology! Recognize all the true potential that's lost in the confinement of technological distractions. Then, discover the benefits that different forms of play bring to a child's development through their years of growth. This includes ideas you can introduce and take part in, whether its outdoor or indoor play. Build the foundation of benefits that come from play!
Your Instructor: Dr. Judy Sullivan Osterhage is a Parent Coach Consultant with Parenting Matters & an Early Childhood Specialist. She holds a Doctorate in Elementary Education, and with that, has brought educational trainings to foster and adoptive parents for over 30 years!

CE Hours: 2

Presented by Greater Richmond SCAN Community Programs
This training provides a foundational learning experience around the topics of trauma and trauma-informed care. We will define trauma, discuss the many types of trauma/adversity, explore the impact of trauma on the brain and behavior, introduce resilience, and discuss SAMHSA’s 4 Rs of trauma-informed care. Throughout the presentation, we will share useful tools and techniques.

CE Hours: 2