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The chapter serving Cowlitz & Wahkiakum counties in Washington closed their doors in July 2025. For more details, including a listing of other worthy local organizations to volunteer with and donate to, click here.
OTHER LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS SERVING CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE
For The Children – Royal Family KIDS Camps – You can still serve at camp with other chapters each summer! Click here to find other chapters world-wide!
Fosterful an on-call volunteering opportunity for qualified individuals to sit with and entertain children in the Department of Children, Youth & Families Office, while their caseworkers make arrangements to find them a new placement home.
www.Fosterful.org
info@fosterful.org
(360) 828-1842
Cowlitz County Child Advocates (formerly CASA: Court Appointed Special Advocates) is a powerful voice, advocating for the best interests of abused and neglected children in the Dependency Court system in our community.
volunteer@ChildAdvocatesCC.org
www.ChildAdvocatesCC.org
(360) 414-5212
Children’s Justice & Advocacy Center – serve children and families affected by child abuse and provide a collaborative and compassionate community response. The Multidisciplinary (MDT) Team Investigation is the heart of CJAC’s response to allegations of child abuse. The MDT allows for a prompt, sensitive, interagency response to reports of alleged child sexual abuse and serious physical abuse, as well as child witnesses to violence. The MDT also provides extensive supportive and follow-up services to children and their families.
edcjac@cowlitzcjac.org
www.cowlitzcjac.com
(360) 353-3933
Young Life‘s mission is to introduce middle and high school adolescents to Jesus and help them grow in their faith by going to where kids are and building personal relationships with them.
YoungLives (teen parents) – YoungLives is an outreach and mentoring program for pregnant and parenting teenagers, up to age 21.
Young Life ONE is a ministry that focuses on reaching kids experiencing homelessness, foster care, incarceration, and trafficking.
Amber Moats
Director of Lower Columbia Young Life
503-522-4260 call/text
amberDmoats@gmail.com
www.younglife.org
www.younglives.younglife.org
www.younglifeone.org
Janus Youth Programs – Serving youth who are living on the streets or in other high-risk situations, have experienced abuse and neglect, are young parents supporting children with little or no resources, are incarcerated, have no access to higher education by providing shelter and housing, teaching young parents positive parenting and child-development skills, connecting youth with college scholarships and more.
www.JanusYouth.org
feedback@janusyouth.org
(503) 233-6090
Children’s Discovery Museum – a free, child-friendly space in Cowlitz County where children and their families can engage in imaginative, interactive hands on learning of the arts, science, and social play. Exhibits include the nature niche (microscopes, bugs, and other cool science stuff), a farm to market equipped with fruits, vegies, a kitchen to “cook” in, and a dining area for serving up whatever their imagination has created! We have giant building logs, a doctor and dental office, dress-up, a bowling lane, our famous ping-pong shower, and much more!
www.cowlitzcdm.com
childrensdiscoverymuseum360@gmail.com
360-353-9682
Thank You…
for helping the neglected, abused and abandoned children of Cowlitz and Wahkiakum counties enjoy a week of unconditional love and acceptance. Your gift of time, talent or money can help change the lives of these hurting children. No donation of time or financial support is too small to make a difference!