Our Initiatives

At Speak Up for Kids, we mitigate the trauma and cultivate the self-worth of kids living in foster care. Here’s how we do it.

Life Skills Equipping foster youth with tools for adulthood and independence.

Flourishing Futures
Foster Concierge
Life Skills Portal

 Milestones & Everyday Essentials Providing what every child needs—dignity, comfort, and celebration.

Embrace Kids
Music Buddies
Gift-A-Birthday™

Hero Homes Supporting and celebrating caregivers to stabilize placements and strengthen families.

Foster Palm Beach
Healing Hearts
Parents Speak Up for Kids

Students Speak Up for Kids Student-led advocacy and peer support initiatives.

STUDENTS SUFK
Student Volunteers
Student Toolkits

Advocacy Programs Strengthening child welfare systems through support, education and engagement.

Early Childhood Court
Therapeutic Court
Guardian ad Litem

Our Programs

  • Life Skills Portal

    A comprehensive online platform provides a wealth of resources and support to empower foster kids who are aging out of the system as they transition into adulthood and independence.

  • STUDENTS Speak Up for Kids

    Empowers students with opportunities to serve and Speak Up for children in the dependency court system.

  • Embrace Kids

    Based on the concept of belonging and inclusion. It exists to lessen or remove financial and emotional barriers that hinder a child’s ability to thrive.

  • Flourishing Futures

    Ensuring that children in foster care have the tools, support, and opportunities they need to thrive at every stage of their development.

  • Foster Youth Concierge

    Ensures that aging out foster kids and have access to the support they need to overcome challenges and thrive.

  • Gift-A-Birthday™

    With every $25 card, Speak Up for Kids of Palm Beach County will help celebrate a local foster child’s birthday with a CAKE, CARD, and GIFT.

  • Parents Speak Up for Kids

    Supporting the caregivers stepping up and speaking up for foster children. Because every hero deserves a fan club.

  • Foster Palm Beach

    In 2018, we extended our impact efforts creating Foster Palm Beach to recruit more local foster families.

  • Specialty Court

    An award-winning pilot, serving the most complex cases in our county through a round-table team approach and “Early Childhood Court” works with new families toward safe, permanent placement faster.

  • Guardian ad Litem Office

    SUFK ensures 100% advocacy for kids in foster care through the funding of positions and the recruitment, training and retention of court-appointed volunteer child advocates.