Children's Home Network

Put your office skills to use! CHN is looking for a couple volunteers to help with clerical tasks at our Administrative Office. Volunteers must be able to commit to 2 hours per week, preferably on a recurring schedule, and be able to effectively assist with filing, scanning, and other projects as needed. If you are interested, please visit https://www.childrenshomenetwork.org/volunteer to provide your information and availability.

Now that school is back in session, this is a great reminder!

🚌 Just a reminder! 🚌

Mark your calendars for the 42nd Annual Golf Classic & Auction!
⛳️Monday, November 18th, 2024
📍Carrollwood Golf & Country Club
➡️For more details/to sign up visit: https://www.childrenshomenetwork.org/golf

⭐️Sponsorship opportunities available! Please reach out to [email protected]

Last week Tampa Bay Buccaneer Mike Evans and his wife Ashli came to Kids Village to host a pizza dinner for our campus youth. Mike signed autographs for the excited kids and took time to visit and take pictures with them while they enjoyed their pizza. Mike and Ashli generously also provided school supplies, including backpacks, lunch boxes and water bottles, to help our kids have a successful school year! We are tremendously grateful for the continued support and wish them all the best for the upcoming football season!

A generous donation of mulch arrived at Kids Village this week, thanks to our friends at . Their thoughtfulness will go a long way to help improve our campus landscaping.

The 2024-25 school year will be here before we know it! Please help the foster youth in our care have a successful year by donating supplies and/or uniforms for our elementary, middle, and high school students. Our Amazon wish list can be used to place an order and have the items shipped directly to CHN, and we would truly appreciate your help in giving our kids the tools they need!

Back to School 2024-2025 | Amazon Gift List

Happy Fourth of July from CHN!
Wishing you a safe and beautiful day celebrating our country's history and strength. 🦅

"Land of the free, because of the brave."

CHN honors Juneteenth and all it stands for!
"Dream like Martin, Fight like Malcom, Write like Maya, Challenge like Rosa, Lead like Harriet."

Happy Father's Day to all of the incredible Dads out there!

We have been a grateful partner of The Junior League of Tampa's Diaper Bank since 2020, and many of our programs benefit from their generosity. The Diaper Bank provided almost 61,000 diapers and pullups to our families for the 23-24 program year, filling a very crucial need throughout our organization. We cannot thank the Junior League of Tampa enough for being our primary partner for diaper needs!

May marks National Foster Care Month—a time to recognize the dedication of foster parents, advocates, and volunteers who make a difference in the lives of children in foster care.

Please join in us in honoring these selfless heroes who are the heart and soul of the Children’s Home Network's Fostering Families program.

Today, and every day, we honor and mourn the U.S. military men and women who lost their lives in service to our country.

“May we never forget that freedom isn't free.”

Caregiver Support Services (CSS) staff represented CHN at the 2024 ARCH Respite Conference in Albany NY this week!

CSS offers comprehensive support to caregivers and their families to prevent child abuse and neglect. The program serves children between the ages of 0-13 who have physical disabilities, social-emotional challenges, or developmental delays/disabilities and caregivers who are experiencing acute situational stressors leading to a strained family system. Learn more about CSS here - https://www.childrenshomenetwork.org/css

Pictured (L-R) Larry Cooper, Denise Pilgrim, Robyne Boyd Jones, Lacey Bradigan, Trisha Rogers, Stephen Foshey

CHN's Supporting and Empowering Educational and Developmental Services (SEEDS) program helps kids from birth to third grade who are behind in reading, written communication and math to get on and stay on grade level.

Check out the link to read more!

Children's Home Network plants SEEDS of learning The Children's Home Network's SEEDS program helps kids from birth to third grade who are behind in reading, written communication and math to get on and stay on grade level.

Thank you McKibbon Hospitality for volunteering your time and hearts to support CHN!

Our Revenue Generation Team rolled up their sleeves this week and showed their spirit to serve at the Children's Home Network. From organizing donations where the children shop for new clothes to cleaning up their learning center and art room, they provided their love for the community and the children in need.

Thank you Gulf Shield for thinking of the boys and girls we serve here at CHN, we are grateful and look forward to continuing to change lives together! 💙

“If I were asked to define Motherhood. I would have defined it as Love in its purest form. Unconditional love.” — Revathi Sankaran

Happy Mother's Day from CHN ❤

A donation of school supplies arrived today, with this lovely note included. Our young donors mean so much to us! Thank you, Kaden!

Big thank you to Primrose School of Carrollwood!

We are continuously grateful to The Junior League of Tampa Diaper Bank for supplying diapers and pullups to the families we serve. Thank you, JLT for being our primary partner for diaper needs.

As Volunteer Appreciation Month concludes, we are excited to announce Sunshine Health is CHN's Volunteer Group of the Year! Their dedicated employees accrued over 160 volunteer hours in the past year on projects such as cleaning the dining hall, wrapping presents, and staffing our golf tournament.

“Sunshine Health is honored to partner with and volunteer for CHN. We are very grateful that the wonderful work of our volunteers is being recognized with this award! We are happy to be a small part of what CHN does to give at-risk children opportunities to succeed in life.” ~Mark Barrett, Senior Vice President Network Development & Contracting.

This year's Reel Animals Classic was bigger and better than ever! 40 boats of anglers went out on the water and returned for lunch, awards, and other fun! Thanks to everyone who joined us, our friends at Hula Bay Club, and especially Captain Mike Anderson for being an incredible partner. Congratulations to the winners of the Snook, Trout, and Redfish categories, and the Grand Slam winner, Jackson Strickland.

It was a beautiful day on the water, and it could not have happened without our incredible sponsors! We are incredibly grateful for their support of last Fridays' 3rd Annual Reel Animals Classic. Thanks to Reel Animals Fishing Show,Absolutely Amazing Refinishing, Inc, Ring Power CAT, Belforgroup, Publix, Pulte Homes, Skanska USA, Elite Direct Finance, Maddskills Electric McNICHOLS CO., Think Construction Services, Replay Guitar Gallery, Coppertail Brewing Co, Service-Tech Corporation, Vigo, Ernst & Young, and Gulf Coast Property Ventures. Pictures coming soon!

The 3rd Annual Reel Animals Classic Fishing Tournament is this Friday, but you don't need to be present to join the fun! Visit http://bidpal.net/chnreel to bid on tickets to Busch Gardens, Kennedy Space Center, a stay at The Karol Hotel, and more!

As we continue celebrating National Volunteer Month, we would like to thank more of the volunteer groups that visited our campus over the past year. We are grateful for their hard work on a variety of projects and look forward to welcoming them back soon! Warren Averett, LLC, Marriott Hotels, Pulte Homes, Wetherington Hamilton, P.A., Life at PwC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Sunshine Health, Healthcare Students United (USF), and the Pre-Physician Associate Society (USF).

HUGE thanks to our great friends at the Bay Area Apartment Association, who presented a check for $25,000 from their annual Spikes for Tykes volleyball tournament, along with reps from their title sponsor Chadwell Supply. We are grateful for all their efforts to support our kids!

🌟 We are so grateful to be able to work along sides with Bay Area Apartment Association to deliver a $25,000 donation to the Children's Home Network supporting their incredible work for children in need. Together, we're making a difference! 💙

April is National Volunteer Month and CHN has the BEST volunteers! We are so grateful for those who give their time and energy to clean, organize, decorate, and so much more on our residential campus. Today we are highlighting some of the groups that helped over the past year, including: Aetna, Bay Area Apartment Association, CAPTRUST, The Michaels Organization, Bloomin' Brands, Inc, Catalina Marketing, Dex Imaging, LLC, Corbett Preparatory School of IDS and Citigroup Tampa Office.

Sweet thanks to our friends at CAPTRUST, who provided 1000 candy-filled eggs and lots of baskets for the CHN Easter Egg Hunt!! We are so grateful to them for giving our campus youth a special day!