The Christmas Box International

The Christmas Box houses support services: The Christmas Box houses (cbh) in salt lake, ogden, and moab, ut, were created and built by The Christmas Box International to partner with Utah's state and county child welfare agencies in providing services for traumatized children entering state's custody, including emergency shelter care, assessment, health, therapeutic, educational and recreational services, and book nooks and blanket rooms stocked with new books cozy blankets for The children. 826 children in total were served at these locations. These facilities offer a safe place for children who need to be removed from their homes due to abuse, neglect, trafficking, or facing homelessness. Cbh's serve 39 sibling groups each month between all three shelter facilities. Children with special medical needs and children with more severe behavioral issues until a longer-term placement can be found in kinship or foster care are also served at The three locations. - 119 total children were served at The moab Christmas Box house - 501 total children were served at The salt lake Christmas Box house - 360 total children were served at The ogden Christmas Box house volunteers: - moab Christmas Box house: 163 - salt lake Christmas Box house: 135 - ogden Christmas Box house: 60 - board members: 7 - project elf: 173 total volunteers: 531

The journeyup project: The journeyup project serves young adults ages 14-22 years who either age out of foster care or face homelessness. This at-risk population has little or no support in their lives. The journeyup project assists them in accessing community resources, provides household items for move-in kits as they transition to adulthood to their first apartment on their own, and supports recreational and youth leadership activities aimed at fostering a community of inclusive support with positive peer-to-peer interactions. Journeyup project youth served: - salt lake metropolitan: 233 - ogden/weber county: 97 - Utah county: 460 - southwest area: 3 total young adults served: 793

The Christmas Box rooms: our fourteen Christmas Box resource rooms are stocked with new donated child and youth items, including clothing, bedding, baby items, school and hygiene kits, books, household items, and toys. These resources serve children and teens: staying at The Christmas Box houses, slco youth services shelter group home and milestone transitional living program homes, youth currently in foster care and aging out of foster care, children receiving in-home services, children being raised by relatives, and children being serviced internationally through partnering nonprofits. Volunteers and community members support The Christmas Box resource rooms (cbr). Resource rooms ease The financial costs on foster families, kinship placements, and at-risk young adults starting their journey into adulthood. Children, teens, and young adults served through The cbrs: - salt lake county: 300 - ogden/weber county: 360 - grand county: 119 - salt lake shelter group home: 201 - milestone tal: 32 - sandy dcfs: 284 - provo dcfs: 264 - american fork dcfs: 56 - tooele dcfs: 46 - orem dcfs tal: 40 - salem dcfs: 18 - ogden dcfs tal: 24 - st. george dcfs: 173 - ogden dcfs: 33 - brigham city dcfs: 26 - bountiful/clearfield dcfs: 43 - beaver dcfs tal: 3 - west valley dcfs: 15 - total children, teens and young adults served by cbr's: 2,037 International outreach efforts through partnering children's charities where our cbr resources were shared with children in haiti, india, kenya, mexico, ecuador, peru, and colombia. Children served through International partners: 200 The Christmas Box resource rooms provide resources to more than 60 partnering child welfare agencies, and children's charities and organizations.

Project elf: each holiday season project elf helps to stock santa's sleigh for children, teens, and young adults who experience abuse, neglect or homelessness in our communities, as well as help stock The Christmas Box resource rooms for months to come. In addition, project elf offers fun and meaningful opportunities for businesses, individuals, families, neighborhoods, schools, scouts, and church groups to assist those in need. Project elf youth served: - salt lake metropolitan: 1,368 - ogden/weber county: 522 - Utah county: 688 - grand county: 224 - Washington county: 71 total children served through project elf: 2,873