In no particular order 🙂 here are 26 ways you can get involved with Orphan Care Alliance in 2026:
1. Become a Life Coach: Mentor a youth (12+) with foster care or adoption experience for about an hour a week, helping them build life skills and healthy relationships.
2. Life Coach Events: Teach a class or life skill and/or host an event for Life Coaches and their mentees.
3. OCA Care Closet Volunteer: Organize donated items at the care closet
4. Serve as a Gateway Advocate: Recruit people to join OCA Gateway to meet physical needs of vulnerable children and families in your community.
5. Family Preservation Volunteer: Partner with biological families to help keep children safely with their parents.
Give, Advocate, Learn, and Share
6. Become a Hope Builder: Give to OCA once a month
7. Serve as a Family Advocate in Your Church: Equip your church to understand and support foster, adoptive, and kinship care.
8. Participate in Foster Care Training: Learn about foster care and support families.
9. Host or Support a Foster/Adoptive Family Event: Help organize community gatherings for OCA Connect groups.
10. Become a Foster or Adoptive Parent: Explore fostering or adopting through OCA’s pathways and partnerships.
Give Rest, Encourage Support, Raise Awareness, and Volunteer
11. Provide Respite Care Support: Offer flexible breaks or care for children when foster/adoptive parents need support.
12. Employer Matching Gifts: Ask your employer if they match charitable contributions. If they do, you can select OCA as the recipient to double your impact. Encourage your co-workers to do the same.
13. Host OCA Trauma Training in Your Church: Share valuable trauma-informed care training with your church’s children or youth volunteers.
14. Volunteer at Community Events (e.g., Engaging Hope Community Rally): Support OCA’s public awareness and engagement events.
15. Host a Connect Group: Organize church members to provide child care and offer a place for foster parents to meet and support each other.
Seasonal Volunteering, Meeting Needs, and Share with Your Network
16. Give Christmas Gifts: Sponsor an OCA child or family preservation parent for Christmas.
17. Share OCA Content on social media: Boost awareness by sharing posts, stories, and resources.
18. Host a wrapping party: Wrap gifts for OCA kids and families around Christmas time.
19. Donate tickets or gift cards: Sponsor an event or activity for a life coach and his/her mentee to enjoy together.
20. Collect items for the Care Closet: Provide tangible items for foster, kinship, and biological families.
Six More Ways to Get Involved, and There Are More
21. Organize a life coaching event: Host an event to encourage life coaches in your area or have a home party so that others can learn about life coaching.
22. Sponsor a Table at an OCA Banquet: Provide funding through one of our three dinner events. For more information on becoming a business partner contact Quincy via email quincy.burt@orphancarealliance.org
23. Host a fundraising event at your Home: Gather friends together to share the impact of Orphan Care Alliance
24. Support Through Community Reward Programs (e.g., Kroger Community Rewards, iGive): Shop and turn purchases into donations for OCA.
25. Gather gift cards for Life Coaches: Restaurant gift cards will enable life coaches to take their mentees out for meals.
26. Invite an OCA staff member to speak to your church or group: We have multiple staff members who would love to share our work with your people. Email quincy.burt@orphancarealliance.org
There are other ways too. Connect with Orphan Care Alliance by calling (502) 498.4765 or via email info@orphancarealliance.org