Christmas Box International

The christmas box rooms: our twenty-three christmas box resource rooms serving 16 utah counties are stocked with new donated child and youth items, including clothing, bedding, baby items, school and hygiene kits, books, household items, and toys. These resources serve children and teens: staying at the christmas box houses, slco youth services shelter group home and milestone transitional living program homes, youth currently in foster care and aging out of foster care, children receiving in-home services, children being raised by relatives, and children being serviced internationally through partnering nonprofits. Volunteers and community members support the christmas box resource rooms (cbr). Resource rooms served 2,214, help ease the financial costs on foster families, kinship placements, and at-risk young adults starting their journey into adulthood. International outreach efforts through partnering children's charities where our cbr resources were shared with children in haiti, india, kenya, mexico, ecuador, peru, and colombia. Children served through international partners: 1,603 the christmas box resource rooms provide resources to more than 104 partnering child welfare agencies, and children's charities and organizations.

Transition to adult living (ttal): the ttal program serves young adults 14-22 years who either age out of foster care or face homelessness. This at-risk population has little or no support in their lives. This program assists them in accessing community resources, provides household items for move-in kits as they transition to adulthood to their first apartment on their own, and supports recreational and youth leadership activities aimed at fostering a community of inclusive support with positive peer-to-peer interactions. Ttal youth served: - salt lake metropolitan: 1,182 - ogden/weber county: 26 - utah county: 360 - southwest area: 5 total young adults served: 1,573

Project elf: each holiday season project elf helps to stock santa's sleigh for children, teens, and young adults who experience abuse, neglect or homelessness in our communities, as well as help stock the christmas box resource rooms for months to come. In addition, project elf offers fun and meaningful opportunities for businesses, individuals, families, neighborhoods, schools, scouts, and church groups to assist those in need. Project elf youth served: - salt lake metropolitan: 1,613 - ogden/weber county: 306 - utah county: 591 - grand county: 499 - washington county: 59 total children served through project elf: 3,068