Fort Bend Community Partners Rainbow Room

In 2024 rainbow room served 395 school-age children. The back to school project provides school supplies, uniforms, school clothing, etc. For school-age children identified as open cases within the tx dept. Of protective and regulatory service(cps). All caseworkers are given questionnaires for identification of open cases of school-age children. Caseworker completes questionnaire detailing the age, sex, school supply list provided by the childs school district, school districts uniform requirements (if school requires uniforms) such as clothing sizes, type/color of uniform/shirt/pants/skirt/tie/jacket/etc., and type/color/size of shoes for each child. Volunteers purchase the items detailed on the completed caseworker questionnaires. No names are ever identified-only identifying numbers associated with the respective caseworker. The cps caseworker collects all items purchased by the rainbow room and distributes the items to the appropriate childs parent.

In 2024 the rainbow room provided emergency needs, such as toiletries, food, diapers, clothing, bed & bedding, etc. To 3272 children/adults. The rainbow room has a room at the fort bend county cps/aps office located in rosenberg, tx stocked with all items for emergency needs by caseworkers. Caseworkers go to this room when they need any normal goods for the well being of any child, adult, or family within fort bend county, tx. The rainbow room provides these emergency goods through donations from the public via their website: www.fbrr.org. The caseworker fills out a form showing the items needed and taken from this emergency needs room. This allows the rainbow room knowledge of what is needed to assist the caseworkers and for maintaining an inventory of items needed on a daily basis.