Foster care & outreach

A seat at the table, paid for before she gets there.

A child in foster care does not need to be told she is welcome. She needs the seat already bought, the materials already on the table, and nobody in the room knowing which seat was funded. That is the whole programme.

Fund a seat Refer a child

What a Corner Seat actually is

A defined, funded experience. Not a vague promise of a year.

A seat is one specific thing, chosen before a single dollar is taken: one four-session creative workshop series, one eight-week Kindred Table reading season, one week of day camp, one starter book bundle plus four guided sessions, or a set number of studio open hours with a materials credit. When it ends, it ends honestly. An extension needs a new sponsor, a grant, or a host's own scholarship allocation — it is never assumed and never quietly dropped.

Who it is for

Children in care, the homes that take them, and the families holding on.

Children in foster care

  • Referred by case management, a school counsellor, a social worker, a church, a community nonprofit or a guardian.
  • No child joins a programme without the right guardian or agency authorisation. That is a hard rule, not a preference.
  • The seat is the same seat every other child has. Same table, same materials, same take-home piece.

Foster homes

  • Sibling groups are funded together wherever a format allows it — splitting them up to fit a seat count is not done.
  • A foster home can host a session in its own living room with a travelling kit instead of bringing children to a studio.
  • Placement changes mid-season do not void a seat. The seat follows the child.

Foster and adoptive families

  • Family formats put the adults at the table too, because a shared skill is worth more than another appointment.
  • Respite-friendly scheduling: sessions are structured so a missed week can be caught up, not written off.
  • No obligation, ever, to buy a product, join anything, fundraise, or be photographed for the programme.

Where the money sits

Ten cents of every programme dollar is reserved before anyone is paid.

This is the planning allocation the programme is built on. It is a template, not a marketing claim, and it moves only when real cost data says it should.

55%Local delivery — the person actually teaching the class
20%Curriculum, platform, support and payment administration
10%Materials and fulfilment
10%Corner Seat outreach reserve, tracked separately
5%Veterans and mission pledge, quarterly ledger

Refer a child, or ask for a seat

Four steps, and none of them ask a child to explain herself.

Someone refers

Case management, a school counsellor, a social worker, a church, a nonprofit, a parent or a guardian. Email kristen@bornbetween2generals.com with the format you have in mind and the age of the child.

Authorisation is checked

The right guardian or agency signs off before anything is scheduled. Photo and video consent is separate, opt-in, and never a condition of the seat.

A seat is matched

Against sponsor funds, a host's local scholarship allocation, or a grant. If nothing is available that season, you are told that plainly and put on the next list.

She just turns up

Same table, same kit, same finished piece to take home. The funded seat is not announced in the room and is not marked on any register a child can see.

Safeguarding, plainly

  • Background-checked adults, two-adult rule in every session with children.
  • No child's name, photograph, story or foster status is published to prove impact. Aggregate totals only.
  • Incident reporting and a written safeguarding policy exist before a first session, not after one.
  • Anything involving care, custody or supervision of children in Florida may fall under state child-care, foster-care, camp or school licensing. A curriculum licence does not solve that, and the local operator is responsible for it.

What outreach never does

  • It does not create an obligation to buy anything.
  • It does not enrol a family into a network or ask them to recruit.
  • It does not ask a child to be a fundraising story.
  • It does not promise a whole year it cannot fund.

Lease a corner

Run the classes yourself — and reserve up to 10% of your paid seats for local outreach.

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Get your own corner

Your name over the door, your causes, the same programme underneath.

Try the name picker →

The catalogue

Every piece carries the exact percentage that goes to giving and the exact cause that receives it.

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