For most families, back to school time brings excitement and anticipation. But for others, it brings anxiety about the cost of school supplies and other back to school expenses. You can help change that.
Become a Backpack Hero to ensure the children in Youth Villages programs will be ready to learn, with the supplies they need. A new backpack full of school supplies will put them on the path to a great education. Donate backpacks, school supplies or financial support for a child in your community.
Make a difference in a child’s life.
Select your state or region below and become a Backpack Hero today.
For donors outside participating states, we invite you to make a financial donation to the region of your choice.
Select a region below to participate in the campaign:
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Positive results are the root of why we do what we do: help children and families lives together successfully. Congrats to Lisa and her children for overcoming and succeeding!
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Lisa gets her boys backJun 5, 2019 From rock bottom to reunification in seven months Lisa, a young mother of two boys – Christopher, 8, and Tyler, 2 – made bad decision after bad decision. Then, she hit rock bottom. Her boys were taken into the custody of Tennessee Department of Children’s Ser...Our Backpack Heroes fundraiser is in full swing, but we still need your support. Consider making a donation or finding a school supply drop-off location near you!
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It’s that time of year again! Our Backpack Heroes school supplies drive helps prepare the youth in our programs by equipping them with the supplies they need! Help us give the necessary supplies to as many youth as we can! Click below to find out how you can donate!
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It is amazing when you meet someone like Sahar, who aged out of foster care with no family supporting and expecting a little one of her own, but thanks to the YVLifeSet program she recently graduated from college at MTSU with a degree in Psychology. Sahar balanced working, going to school and being a mother while maintaining a 3.8 GPA and graduating Magnum Cum Laude. Her next goal is being a counselor with Youth Villages to help kids like her!
It is amazing what our young people accomplish every day in the YVLifeSet program. Sometime accomplishments are graduating college and other ones are getting their first job. For many of these youth who age out of foster care without support, things can turn out very differently for them, but with the help of the YVLifeSet program, nearly 300 Middle Tennessee youth will have access to services as they transition into adulthood.
Please consider making a gift to the YVLifeSet program and help more young people like Sahar reach their goals, because these kids are worth it!
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Ali is a shining example of the amazing outcomes achieved by participating in the YVLifeSet program. Ali aged-out of foster care, at age 18, and with the help of the YVLifeSet program, graduated from Austin Peay, and recently accepted a position with the Department of Children’s Services! She truly is “defying the odds!”
Help more youth, like Ali, “Defy the odds” and reach their milestone moments in the YVLifeSet program.
Your support will ensure services to more than 300 Middle Tennessee youth in the YVLifeSet program.
Consider making a gift today…because these kids are worth it! -
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