Creating Community & Connection
Creating Community
& Connection
Elevating Connections is dedicated to building sustained positive relationships for current & former youth in foster care-including those experiencing sibling separation-to use their voice & build meaningful community connections.
Here to Make a Difference
Youth who have experienced foster care are already facing a difficult road that often includes changing environments, sibling separation, and not feeling heard. Elevating Connections offers programming for separated siblings to strengthen their relationship, make memories, and just be kids together. We also provide opportunities for youth to build community and express their unique voices through the arts.
What We Do
Elevating Connections helps encourage, strengthen, and motivate youth in the foster care system to find their own confident voice in the world. There are two specific ways we help accomplish this.
Sibling Connections
We offer bimonthly sibling connecting events with arts and recreational activities, as well as a week-long summer camp for siblings: Camp Connect.
Empowering Youth Expressions
We offer arts and writing workshops, monthly community dinners, as well as an annual arts festival and poetry jam. This program is geared toward youth and young adults who have experienced foster care in general and is not sibling-based.
Events Calendar
Browse our calendar to see our upcoming events and opportunities for you to get involved!
Donate
At Elevating Connections, we rely on the generous support of our donors to impact the lives of our youth. If you would like to donate, we humbly invite you to go to our Donate page and generously give to our cause. Every donation helps positively change young peoples’ lives in our community!
Volunteer Opportunities
You can experience the joy of helping a struggling youth. We have many volunteer opportunities at Elevating Connections for you to get directly involved with our mission. If you want to selflessly give of your time and resources to help positively impact the lives of the youth in our community, then we encourage you to go to our Volunteer Opportunities page to take the next step.
Referral Process
We are always ready to connect more siblings and help youth in the foster care system find their confident voice through self-expression. If there are youth in your life who you think would benefit from the programming at Elevating Connections, we ask you to refer them to us via our Referral Process web page. Visit that page to learn more about the process for referrals.