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United for Children Cornhole Tournament Saturday, July 26, 2025 | 9:00 am - 7:00 pm Silver Dollar Fairgrounds | 2357 Fair Street, Chico, CA 95928 Children First Foster Family Agency is Proud to Partner with United Way of Northern California for United for Children Show off your cornhole skills and support two local non-profits making a positive change in this community we call home! All proceeds raised support UWNC and Children First FFA, agencies who bring hope to at-risk and [...]

As the holiday season approached in December 2024, something special was brewing at Children First FFA. We were beyond excited to welcome our community to the Sundial Garden of Lights, an event designed to bring light and warmth during the colder months—and it truly did just that. On the evening of the event, the Sundial Garden transformed into a dazzling wonderland. Thousands of twinkling lights illuminated the garden, creating a magical atmosphere that was felt by all who walked through. From families with young children to longtime supporters of our [...]

A Journey of Dedication and Growth At Children First Foster Family Agency, 2025 marks a new chapter as Shannon Pierce steps into the role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO). With over 30 years of experience in education and social services, Shannon is no stranger to the challenges and triumphs of supporting foster youth and families. Her journey from educator to social worker to executive leader is a testament to her unwavering commitment to making a difference. Shannon’s career began in the classroom, where she spent 11 years shaping young minds [...]

School can be a challenge for young people in foster care. Without a steady, stable home as a foundation, kids will often move from school to school and struggle to keep up with their peers. Keeping young children in foster care on track with their education is an extremely important part of the process that guides them to adulthood. However, not everything needed for adult life is learned in school, which is where the Independent Living Program in Shasta County can play a vital role. Through this program, foster kids [...]

A successful adult life doesn’t happen by accident. For an adult who has things like a career and stable housing in place, those pieces likely took plenty of planning and hard work to bring to reality. Unfortunately, many foster kids will never have the chance to do the work and the planning to craft that kind of life for themselves. With the Transitional Housing Placement Program in Sacramento County for support, young people who are aging out of the foster system can get a much-deserved opportunity to set the stage [...]

In addition to being more likely to wind up homeless, foster children are also at an increased risk of winding up in the criminal justice system. As a THP provider in Yuba City CA, we are dedicated to helping former foster kids find a safe place to live while they get started in adult life. If these young people are moved out of the foster system with no support, they may end up incarcerated in the near future. Stable housing is not the only piece of the puzzle that is [...]

One of the biggest challenges that faces any foster child is making the transition from the foster system into the “real world”. Starting an adult life is always difficult under the best of circumstances, so it’s easy to understand why foster children would struggle to make this jump. After all, most young adults can lean on their parents or other family members for help, but foster kids don’t often have that opportunity. This struggle is why Supervised Independent Living Placement in Red Bluff CA is such an important program to [...]

Solutions For Youth Fund | 100th Request and Giving Trees Solutions For Youth Has Fulfilled 100th Request In November, our Solutions for Youth Fund team was able to fulfill Red Bluff High School’s ONE HUNDREDTH REQUEST! This fund was created to help supply local homeless and at-risk teens with necessary items to even the playing field during their high school careers. We could not continue this mission without the help and support of people like YOU! From a 15-year-old male... “Thank you so much for the work boots, jacket and [...]

Solutions For Youth Fund |  Supporting Homeless Youth I’m a counselor at the high school and every day I hear multiple heartbreaking stories from so many students. Hundreds of kids are living with people other than their parents because their parents are drug addicts, in jail, alcoholics, dead, or unfit. Students come to school wearing the same old clothes every day, the same old shoes every day regardless of all the sadness and trauma that haunts them. One question gives so many answers, “Who do you live with?” My grandma [...]