Archangel Holiday Boutique

About

  Archangel Holiday Boutique is an event to raise funds in support of local foster children and to spread awareness of the current need for more volunteer mentors. There are over 1,600 foster children in Santa Clara County and only a fraction of them are blessed to have Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs), who provide them with emotional support and guide them to lead healthy lifestyles. These children were abused and neglected by their parents, who are often incarcerated, addicted to substances, or otherwise unavailable to take care of their children’s essential needs. As a result of not having a stable home, these children often grow up with low self-esteem and hopelessness.

 

  CASAs mentor foster children by providing them with the emotional support that is vital to the healthy growth of young minds. CASAs also guide there children through their education and advocate for them at their dependency court hearings. While only 35% of foster children attend pre-school and 58% complete high school, with CASAs these numbers drastically improve to 73% that attend pre-school and 93% that complete high school. Many of them go on to community college and some even transfer to 4-year universities.

 

  CASAs clearly make an enormous difference in the lives of foster children by providing them with stable, dependable adult figures while their parents are unavailable. CASAs help these children discover hopes, dreams, and goals in their lives, and support them to become healthy-minded young adults.

 

  At present, Child Advocates of Silicon Valley provides advocates to only 46% of Santa Clara County’s foster children. Archangel Holiday Boutique aims to support the efforts of Child Advocates of Silicon Valley so that every single foster child will have a CASA. We hope that you will join us in our mission to make it possible for Child Advocates of Silicon Valley to recruit, train, and support enough CASAs so that no foster child in our county will have to struggle alone.