Resources- CFC

DCS is involved with two parents who are currently living in their vehicle with no air conditioning, no way to store meals, and no way to warm their meals. Their children are not in their care and they are trying to find employment and housing. These parents do not have supports through their family or friends to help them with their needs or their condition of living. The mother has a lot of medical needs and is not able to work at this time. The father has been trying to find odd jobs to pay for food and gas for their vehicle until he can find steady work. They have a tent, but have not been able to afford to pay the fees to camp at local campsites. The parents would really benefit from receiving a straight talk card to help them be able to access text messages and phone calls so that they can maintain contact with DCS, service providers, potential employers and other resources. The parents would benefit from a cooler and a small mini propane tank when camping to cool and heat up their food. Both parents are only able to reach a once-a-month food bank in their county due to them having car trouble and are unable to make it further into the Evansville area so any assistance with groceries would be welcome. Helping with any of these concerns would be greatly appreciated so that these parents can maintain basic needs until they can find employment and housing and work toward having their children back in their care.

Single mother of three children. Mother has previously in a long-term relationship with the children's father that included bouts of domestic violence, substance abuse, and consistent homeless. Mother has been sober since December, has employment, and has obtained housing in the last two months to prepare for the children to eventually come home. However, she is struggling to save in order to afford furniture and appliances for her new apartment due to her being all on her own for the first time in a decade.

Family's landlord does not provide appliances, and family is need of a stove and a stackable washer and dryer. Single mom with 2 children with a disabled family member in the home.

Good morning, I am reaching out to help a family on my caseload. The children were removed from their biological mother and placed with their biological father. The biological father has been utilizing every resource in the community to obtain the housing that he finally received this week! Up until now, father and the children were residing in a hotel until father could find housing. The children are very excited about moving into their new home with their father.

At this time, father is the one that is needing help. Father is needing dressers for the children. Father stated that he didn't want anything specific, just dressers that are able to open and close. Once this need is met, father will be able to store away the children's clothes appropriately instead of having the clothes put in a trash bag in the corner of the room.

The children have been placed with the same foster family for the past two years and are in need of two twin mattresses and bedding. The children are 9 and 11 year old girls. The family cannot afford to purchase new beds and bedding on their own right now. Receiving assistance with this need would allow the girls to sleep comfortably and would allow the family to put money towards the family's other immediate needs.

Mother of seven children. She has section 8 housing and consistent employment to provide for the children. However, her washer has recently broke and she does not have the means of transportation to make trips to the laundromat in order to get the children clean clothes and additionally lacks the funds to do so.