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PLEASE HELP US RIGHT NOW TO CONTINUE TO HELP
AND INFORM AND ADVOCATE FOR OUR CHILDREN AND YOUTH AND CONTINUE OUR 14 YEARS OF PASSION
AND SACRIFICE TO HELP KIDS!
Click the button below to make $10.00 per
month recurring donation thru paypal
STREETCATS FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH and its vital programs for children, youth, parents and youth workers began in 1989.
They include this web site, local Teen City and City Spirit sites, our Parentdex site, new web portals for-African-American Teens, Latino Teens and Youth Counselors Net.
Our Teen-Anon is the only national 12-step fellowship for teens and our One Heart for Kids national initiative programs.
Our acclaimed international weekly 30-minute Reaching Up! Radio and Celebrate Radio programs offer encouraging music and compelling interviews for teens and twenties and are broadcast to the U.S.,
Canada, Caribbean, Central and
South America, UK, Europe, Middle East, Russia, Australia and parts of Africa and Asia on
5 satellite radio and shortwave radio networks, are offered as podcast series (and soon
will start on dozens of AM and FM radio stations). Listeners say our programs inform,
uplift and motivate them to help do justice locally and around the world and are
'excitingly unlike anything else on the air.'
We also p0roduce national radio
public service announcements educating people about the needs of children and youth and
help in the fight against poverty, AIDS, trafficking, hunger, child abuse and teen
addiction and are made available to hundreds of radio stations. We also produce radio
specials heard coast-to-coast and around the world on the crisis in Haiti, on Compassion's
Global Food Crisis initiatives and to garner volunteers and donations for a dozen
organizations through our One Heart for Kids.
We're building further collaborations with Mercy Ships, Compassion International,Teen Harvest, Hands for Africa and Haiti, the African Childrens Choir, UNICEF and more to help the enormous unmet needs of children and youth in America and around the world.
But, as you can imagine, it is impossible to keep on with all this on a total budget of under $25,000 a year!
To continue, we need YOU, no
matter how small or large your donation!
After 20 years, we just can't
count on grants anymore, so we need to count on you for all the millions of youth,
families and youth workers (secular and faith-based) we reach through the web, on radio
and in youth groups. Our tiny budget isn't nearly enough to do all the good work we
do and help change the lives we do each year! We don't even have a third of what we
need to truly help youth in all the areas we are working in!
We need to do so much more so that we can help YOU, your kids, your teens, college youth, youth counselors and those who do youth ministry, teachers and government officials who constantly call, write or email us for urgent, life-saving help, advice and resources / referrals.
Help us with your donation, small
or big, whatever you can, to raise $50,000 more each year to continue all the projects we
do, to save or change more young lives and to be sufficient to the miracles that need be
helped along.
YOU, your friends, schoolmates, family members, co-workers and even the company you work for can help us get there… at just $5, $10, $15, $20, $50, $100, $250 at a time...ANY help will start to make a big difference!
You can send us just $1, $2, $5 or $10 a week or month in an envelope, checks made out to STREETCATS FOUNDATION to the address below or you can use your credit card or Paypal or an e-check by clicking the button below to will help us save the lives of tens of thousands of children and teens, keep our web sites up that help 5 million more a year, keep us broadcasting to more and more millions of listeners, keep hundreds of adolescents in our life-saving TEEN-ANON groups and help start more groups for teens in more cities while publicizing the needs of our children on a national radio public service announcement campaign, day in and day out, as we birth new and more beneficial local coalitions between non-profit youth groups and faith-based organizations, schools and counties.
THIS web site alone (and we have 22 more helping kids, parents, families) is accessed by 2.4 million people a year looking for help, resources and referrals. Our new 30-minute weekly Reaching Up! Youth Radio show is now reaching and helping young people across the U.S. and in 31 European countries!
We have thousands of youth in our
recovery groups to stay off alcohol and other drugs and learn to be productive adults and
we need (and parents and teens need) to get our (www.teen-anon.com) Teen-Anon program in every county, every high school,
every drug program and every juvenile hall and drug court program in the country, as it
already is in places like Anaheim California, Eau Claire Wisconsin, Chicago, Miles City
Montana, Enterprise and Ft.. Lauderdale FL, Ft.Worth Texas New Haven Ct and other towns
and cities and just beginning in Ohio in our first Juvenile Court recovery program! A
similar program, Young and Recovering, is now being birthed by us for college students
with alcohol and other drug problems (they have increased dramatically on campuses)
WE NEED YOUR HELP, RIGHT NOW!
Our National Childrens Coalition vitally helps advocate the cause of helping American children and has since 1995. Our newly-launched (www.oneheartforkids.com) ONE HEART FOR KIDS national campaign, introduced at a One Heart for Kids benefit concert in Oakland by our friend and long-time supporter Noel Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary last year, seeks to educate the public still further about childrens needs and the American tragedy of children, while starting chapters in each city to gather volunteers and raise money to fund all the grassroots youth organizations like ours around the country, that are daily sacrificing to help our kids, while funders have ignored them and us except sporadically.
Our new model Interfaith Family Resource Center project, getting churches and synagogues and secular youth organizations all working together in a community or whole county, with a hotline and drop-in centers, is something that can be replicated anywhere in the country and needs to be.
We long to restart our Street
Kids program, which, for 6 years, was the most (successful on-the-street counseling and
help program for runaways in several cities. Major organizations you may have heard of
that are supposedly helping 'teens' no longer help ANYONE under 18!
HELP US RIGHT NOW TO CONTINUE TO HELP AND INFORM AND ADVOCATE FOR OUR CHILDREN AND YOUTH AND CONTINUE OUR 14 YEARS OF PASSION AND SACRIFICE TO HELP KIDS!
We need YOUR help urgently so that we don't tragically miss helping a single child or teenager or parent or youth worker who needs our help!
Consider that:
An American child is reported abused or neglected every 11 seconds.
An American child is born into poverty every 43 seconds.
One of our children or teens is killed by gunfire every 2.5 hours, 9 kids every day, 87,000 in the past 20 years.
5,000 or more teens commit suicide every year.
581,000 children are in foster care, many thousands still being abused, while 127,000 wait for foster care.
80% of our teens who are addicted to alcohol and other drugs get NO help of any kind with their addictions, to stem the tide of personal and family heartbreak, teen violence and crime, domestic violence, unsafe sex, school disruption and poor grades...yet our TEEN-ANON program has gotten just $13,000 in funding over 3 years--less than $5,000 a year.
1.3-2 million of our children and youth run away each year, with tens of thousands becoming drug addicted, in prostitution and living on our streets in major cities.
HOW TO REACH US: Tax-Deductible
donations may be made to Streetcats Foundation, P.O.Box 72174, Oakland, Ca 94612. You can
reach us by email at helping3000@yahoo.com
You can send a donation NOW ONLINE SECURELY thru PAYPAL
Learn about our new ONE
HEART FOR KIDS Initiative and LEARN about our new REACHING UP! RADIO
