Your Support Is Vital to Us
The funding we receive from the state does not begin to cover our annual costs. We depend on the financial support of individuals, businesses, and institutions to continue to meet the pressing needs of our community.
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What Your Support Has Made Possible
Last Year HKYFS:
- Hosted 90 programs with 8,997 attending
- Connected 25 students in grades K-8 with adult mentors
- Held the Holiday Giving Program for 154 HK Youth
- Provided 20 or more hours of programming to 185 youth
- Started a Community Service Website to connect HKHS students with meaningful opportunities with local non-profits
- Coordinated 1,540 volunteer hours in HK
- Provided 45 backpacks & lunchboxes for the start of school for HK students
- Hosted Drug Take Back Days in Haddam and Killingworth
- Helped families with truancy and diversion support
- Connected families to crisis care
- Provided accessible mental health support through Counseling, Therapy Dogs, and Referrals/Case Management.
- Promoted healthy choices and prevention awareness through in school clubs like Spark, and Ignite
- Promoted awareness and dialogue on critical topics through the HK Coalition, Community Conversations and offering community Narcan Training
- Empowered young people through engaging programs like Girls with a Purpose, Girls on the Run, Teen Trailblazers, and Be You at the Barn
Ways to Support Us
Whether you want to nurture the potential of children and teens through ongoing support, improve your own family’s health and well-being through participation, or would like to volunteer to help members of our community, we welcome your help to ensure a brighter future for all.
When you donate to HKYFS, you’re taking an active role in making our community a better place to live. Your contribution allows us to provide financial assistance for better programs and counseling, increase programming, and continue to improve the quality of life in our towns.
We Need Your Continued Support as We Grow
We invite you to invest in our community with a tax-deductible gift of any size as a recurring monthly donation, or a one-time gift using our secure online payment processor.
A donation of $45 can support a youth to receive a backpack & school supplies
A donation of $117 can bring more QPR and Naloxone trainings to the community
A donation of $150 can help 1 child attend our Be You at the Barn program