Our Chapter
We started out in 2003 as Royal Family Kids’ Camp, serving Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay. As our parent organization, and the area we serve, has expanded over the years we have now become For The Children Central Coast.
We are excited to continue providing camp our annual one week summer camp for abused, neglected, and abandoned foster kids from the Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, and Monterey counties of California. Local volunteers, with a heart for hurting children, work to make this camp a thoroughly uplifting springboard to enable foster kids to rise above their current situation and have hope for tomorrow.
At the beginning of their summer vacation the children are warmly welcomed to a place where they are treated with love and respect and also well fed in body, mind, and spirit. Swimming, hiking, arts and crafts, drama, music, tea parties, and camp fires are all part of this camp experience. Wednesday at camp is “Everybody’s Birthday Party” where each child is given a birthday box, and they can enjoy a birthday party filled with games, bounce houses, and cake!
But most importantly, they learn about God’s unconditional love and seeds are planted for healing to take place.
Katie Cramton,
Chapter Director
Meet the Directors
All of our staff are volunteers, including our directors. They both are grateful to have the opportunity to serve children in our community.
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FounderIt all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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Design DirectorIt all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
390,000
Children in Foster Care Nationally
770
Children in Foster Care in Santa Cruz, Santa Clara and Monterey Counties
21
Years In Operation
Same Heart, New Name, Bigger Impact.
We are now For The Children and here’s why.
For 30 years, volunteers, churches, businesses, local municipal partners and Royal Family Kids staff have dedicated their time, talent and treasures to help transform the lives of vulnerable children across the US, and world.
While RFK has formally overseen our camps and mentoring programs, the breadth of our work has evolved far beyond these two programs. Today we provide direct trauma intervention, advocacy, fostering, adoption, support to parents, and other crucial wraparound services.
While we acknowledge the expansion of our work across our 252 chapters, COVID-19 has profoundly increased the needs of children and families. Extreme gaps in fulfilling these needs cannot be overstated.
In order to address the systemic issues surrounding child welfare today, our organization must respond.
Consequently, as of November 2020, Royal Family KIDS, will officially be renamed For The Children. This transition will bring clarity to new opportunities, from providing laptops and shoes to needy children, to assisting overburdened social workers, to providing temporary shelter.
The teaching and example of Jesus in caring for “the least of these” will remain our motivation. As For The Children, we are also eager to focus on the systemic issues facing children, around the globe.
