Support for the Kids: About Us

About Us

OVER THIRTEEN YEARS AGO...

The idea of Support for the Kids was born. Lynda Miller, a volunteer working with foster children, had a dream. Her dream was to provide tutoring and educational enrichment to more than 1,000 kids in the foster care system in Ventura County. There were hundreds of hurdles to overcome while waiting to become an official non-profit, 501 c3 organization. During this time, Lynda started holding Holiday parties for the kids at Christmas, Easter and Halloween. She gained the trust of the kids and their families, organized volunteers, grew the support group, and raised funds. Support For The Kids became an official non-profit organization in 2000.

Since then, we have been providing one on one tutoring through our program called Empowerment Thru Education - the culmination of Lynda's dream! We provide trained tutors, who have been backround checked, to meet with the foster kids in their homes for an hour, twice a week. Presently we are tutoring approximately 65 kids, using creative methods and tools, following California Academic Standards, with the goals of improving the academic performance as well as the self-esteem of these kids. We are seeing great strides made by the students not only in grades, but also attendance, attitude and behaivor.

With close to 1,000 kids in foster care in Ventura County, we have our work cut out for us! We will continue to work hard to raise the necessary funds we need to reach as many kids as we can. All funds raised by the Executive Board go directly to helping the kids. We have NO paid employees and NO overhead. We are all volunteers working 24/7 for these kids. We are proud of our work and all that we have accomplished to ensure a better future for the foster kids in Ventura County - one kid at a time!