Oklahoma Change for Children partner organizations

Baking Memories 4 Kids

Baking Memories 4 Kids provides children with life threatening and /or terminal illnesses and their families an all-expense paid vacation to ALL the theme parks in Orlando, Florida. For one week, these courageous families can focus on each other in a positive, uplifting environment instead of beside a hospital bed. We recognize that having a loved one who is ill affects more than just the person afflicted, it encompasses the world of everyone around them. We give them the opportunity to create amazing, lifelong memories that may be a form of comfort for their journeys ahead.

Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma

Their mission: Lead a network that provides nutritious food and pathways to self-sufficiency for people facing hunger.

Their vision: An Oklahoma where no one goes hungry.

Change for Children funds are designated to their Food for Kids Programs, which include:

  • Backpack Program: Chronically hungry elementary school children receive a weekly backpack filled with nutritious, kid-friendly, shelf-stable food.

  • School Pantry Program: Pantries within middle and high schools allow chronically hungry students to get the food they need to sustain them after school and over weekends.

  • Kids Cafés: Provides meals and snacks at programs that provide tutoring and mentoring services to students after school, during breaks and over the summer.

  • Summer Feeding Program: Provides nutritious meals and snacks to students 18 and under throughout the summer when school is not in session.

Lillyfield

Their Mission: Lilyfield is focused on providing healthy families for at-risk children and youth. We serve families through a variety of services designed to ensure that children in our community have safe and healthy homes where they can be nurtured and grow to their full potential. We know that some families might need only a little bit of support while others need more intensive help and regardless of where families find themselves, we are here to help. 

Their Approach: Lilyfield’s  two  generation  (2Gen)  approach  focuses  on  family  well-being  by working  with the  whole  family,  providing strategic  and  simultaneous  support  to children  and  their  caregivers.  Our  specific  service  areas  include mental health counseling,  parent  support  and  education,  mentoring, preschool programs,  after school programs, pregnancy support services, and foster care.