What can you, your organization or those in your profession do?

Click on Contact KARA for personal help in creating a community-based program that supports at-risk children:

Creating a Community Based Program

KARA will work with your board to access needs, develop appropriate programs and build community support for at-risk children. KARA partners with communities to bring positive change into the lives of at-risk children through tried and proven programs. With our model, civic leaders can track results and build on established success with programs that work. Child-friendly programs strengthened by KARA will be championed in the community as word of success based on measurable results is broadcast.

Getting Started

To begin, board members partner with KARA to create a working board in a temporary model that will eventually achieve permanency. Board members are an assembly of 12 to 15 persons with common values who committed to formalizing a board and moving into Phase I. The Phase I time frame optimally will be one to three months, depending on the energy and time commitment of board members. Board members will contribute a small agree-upon contribution to achieve economic stability and corporate non-profit status. Board communications with KARA will occur through phone, email and in person during Phase I

Phase I - Building the Board

• Establish a strong, sustainable board that can fulfill the organization’s mission
• Find the right candidates to build and train the board
• Locate and educate program champions

  Phase II – The Learning Curve

• Train the board

Service and manage the board

Become an effective grassroots advocate for abused and neglected children:

• Spread the word and share resources and ideas. Work to discover more effective approaches to solving our nation’s problem with the fair and ethical treatment of abused and neglected children.
• Use this site to find others of like minds.
• Copy important pages from the KARA web site to mail, fax and email to legislators, public officials, teachers, and social workers.
• Abused and neglected children cannot contact their senators to have laws changed that affect them. We all need to do our part to help win the war that is being waged against the youngest and most vulnerable among us.