A Letter From The President

Dear 4KIDS Friends,

Thank you for the heartfelt friendship and support you have offered to children and families this year through 4KIDS. As volunteers, foster parents, Defenders, or supporters, you propelled life-changing work in our community.

As I look back at this year it is impossible to ignore the ways COVID-19 continued to impact child welfare, but it is also impossible to not notice the tremendous ways this 4KIDS community persevered and offered unparalleled hope in even the darkest moments. Whether it was a baby coming into care with 17 broken bones, a sibling group that needed a foster home who could keep them together, or a teen in desperate need of therapeutic resources, 4KIDS was there, because of you, continuing to provide our paradigm of hope, homes, and healing despite this year ’ s unique challenges. We were even able to expand our services by launching our strategic partnership with CarePortal to help families in crisis through preventative care that keeps children from entering the foster care system.

This past year as a team at 4KIDS we adopted the theme “We Go Together ” – and you are an integral part of that movement. As an entire 4KIDS community we have continued to go together, to pursue greater outcomes for kids in crisis, working endlessly until every child has a home. Time and time again we hear, from people like the Secretary of the Department of Children and Families, that our unprecedented model and outcomes are desperately needed in other communities across our state and beyond. I look at this diverse community made up of people not just across South Florida but across the country and the world, and I see our unstoppable passion for God’ s children - drawing us to expand to reach and impact many more lives together.

As we continue to go together I pray that you will continue on in this journey to change lives. I hope that this year ’ s annual report will touch your heart and encourage your spirit to keep going. Lives are being changed, hope is being renewed, the story is being re-written.

Until Every Child Has A Home,

Kevin Enders 4KIDS President