You Provide The Care. We Provide Tangible Support.
It's okay to ask for help. TAK is here to remove barriers to caring well for the children in your home — whether that's new bunk beds and working smoke detectors, backpacks stocked with comfort and essentials, or a spot in the Christmas Parade — whatever your family needs, we're here for it.
Meeting Essentials Needs of Kids Impacted By Foster Care
Until Every Need is Met for Tennessee’s Children
Every Need Met Helps a Child Thrive
Whether your kids are at risk of entering care, you've just welcomed kids into your home, or you're working to reunify.
Bedding & Furniture
A comfortable place to rest and feel safe, at home or in a new one.
Child Safety
Car seats, cribs, and gear that help kids stay safe and families stay together.
Clothing
New clothes and shoes that fit, for whatever the season or the moment calls for.
Education & Development
School supplies, technology, and support that help kids keep learning and growing, wherever they are in their journey.
Groceries
Food on the table for families working toward stability and youth navigating adulthood.
Housing Assistance
Help with rent, utilities, and move-in costs so a child can stay safely at home, or a young adult can take the first step into a home of their own.
Support in Any Season
TAK meets essential needs for kids in any season of foster care, from at-risk to reunification and anywhere in between.
Kids at Risk
Meeting a family's most urgent need can be the difference between kids staying together and entering care.
Kids Entering Care
Even in the chaos of entering care, meeting a child's needs eases the transition for everyone involved.
Youth Aging Out
Meeting the practical needs of youth aging out to empower them for adulthood.
In Kinship Families
Meeting the needs that come with stepping up for family makes kinship care possible.
In Foster Families
Meeting the everyday and unexpected needs of foster families lets them focus on the child, not the cost.
Kids Reunifying
Meeting a family's needs during reunification helps clear the path back home.
Contact Your Social Worker For Assistance.
All FosterLove and TAK PAK needs are submitted on your behalf by your Agency Partner Contact.
Currently, TAK meets needs requested by the Tennessee Department of Children's Services, Tennessee Baptist Children's Homes, Jonathan's Path, Viable, CASA Nashville, and CASA Williamson. If you're working with one of these agencies, notify your agency that you'd like TAK's assistance to meet a need.
Not part of a partner agency?
If your social worker is outside of these agencies, let them know about TAK so they can apply to be a new agency partner.
Stuck? Contact us, and we'll do our best to help how we can.