In-Kind & Other

You can support Kinnect through donations of materials, office supplies, furniture, or your time and talents! As we continue our mission to enhance the child welfare system, professional services are always welcomed. As you can see above, in-kind donations made possible our move to new offices in 2017!

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What’s the Good Word? Scrabble!

The Waiting Child Fund is now Kinnect—a name that represents our core practice of engaging kin to help children in foster care to find permanent, loving homes in the shortest time possible. “Kin” includes biological family, friends, and other close connections who help every child grow up amidst the support …
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Latest Blog

The Sawyers

In the days and weeks after Kayden, Kylee, and Shawn Sawyer* were taken into child welfare custody, the teenagers repeatedly asked if they could live with their maternal uncle, Jesse. However, based on previous legal charges, child welfare workers quickly discredited Uncle Jesse’s ability to provide support, and the siblings …
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Latest Blog

Samantha

Ten-year-old Samantha* came to live with her dad in Ohio five years ago, after being removed from her mother’s care by a children services agency in her home state of Vermont. With a complicated history of sexual abuse and the painful experience of being separated from her mom, it was …
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