Eligibility:
AFFCF can consider funding for supplemental clothing and shoes. Requests for special event clothing or prom-related clothing are considered separate types of requests.
Documentation:
No documentation required beforehand.
Payment:
Once a request is approved, an email will be sent so that the purchase can be made and receipt(s) submitted for payment.
AFFCF can consider one application for supplemental clothing and shoes per child per year. We can process one reimbursement, so all the purchase receipts for the clothing and shoes must be provided to AFFCF at one time. As funding for supplemental clothing and shoes is once per calendar year, AFFCF must receive the receipt(s) within 60 days of request approval and by December 15 to have a check issued and count towards the current calendar year.
Ages 0-13 – $200
Ages 14+ – $250
Frequency: 1x per year
Other Resources:
- A Mighty Change of Heart – A Mighty Change of Heart will drop off a bag with the youth’s name sewn in. The bag contains clothes, books, and toys. As long as a family has a notice to provider and lives in AZ the child qualifies.
- ASA Now – Can give clothing to youth in foster care up to age 22
- Aviva Children’s Services – Provides gently used and new clothing at their resource closet in Tucson
- CASA Council Helping Children in Mohave County, Inc. – Able to provide emergency clothing for youth adjudicated in Mohave County only. Youth does not need to have a CASA.
- CASA Support Council for Pima County, Inc. – Clothing and shoes for youth adjudicated in Pima County only. Youth needs to have a CASA.
- Cochise County Council for CASA, Inc. – Emergency clothing for youth. Funding is limited and is for youth whose case was adjudicated and has an open case in Cochise, Graham or Greenlee county only. Youth do not need to have a CASA.
- Coconino CASA for Kids – Clothing to youth adjudicated in Coconino County
- DCS – DCS funds $150 in emergency clothing per year and $100 for extra-emergency clothing (Ex: fire, flood, theft).
- Helen’s Hope Chest – Provides new and used clothing from their location in Mesa, AZ
- Jessie’s Closet Foster Children Resource Center, Inc. – Clothing closet for youth in foster care in Yuma. Must have NTP or EFC documentation and child/young adult needs to present 1st time for picture and ID card created.
- Jose’s Closet – Clothing closet in Mesa, AZ
- Navajo County Friends of CASA – Able to provide emergency clothing and back to school clothing for foster youth adjudicated or placed in Navajo County (don’t need to have a CASA).
- Spreading Threads Clothing Bank – Provides clothing and emergency clothing for foster, adopted, guardianship and tribal youth
- The Foster Alliance (Phoenix and Flagstaff locations) – Able to provide clothing and diapers once every 60 days. Also able to travel to give items. (Tucson, Kingman, Flagstaff, Prescott, Tuba City, Window Rock, Show Low, Casa Grande, Yuma, & Globe)
- Yavapai County CASA for Kids Foundation – Provides bi-annual clothing supplement for all youth in foster care under the jurisdiction of the Yavapai County Juvenile Courts in the form of a gift card provided to DCS to distribute in the Spring and Winter.
