Youth Highlight

(Pictured top: Sacred Heart Parish Youth Group. Bottom left Girl Scouts from St. Mary's Catholic School and Bottom right, Boy Scouts from St. Mary's Catholic School. )

PREPARES Family Center and PREPARES Ministry is blessed to have youth from various Catholic Schools, as well as youth and scouting groups; pour their time, energy and talents into serving vulnerable families.

Girl and Boy Scout groups from St. Mary's Catholic School helped gather essential baby care items through donation drives where they collected and organized goods to donate to the families we serve. Baby wash, diaper cream, diapers and wipes, pacifiers, bottles, along with clothing and other items are always in high demand. We are so grateful for their hard work in organizing the donation drives for Lamb's Closet, a PREPARES Ministry location located at St. Mary's Parish in Spokane Valley.

Recently we had Sacred Heart Parish Youth Group and students from All Saints, Assumption on Cataldo Catholic Schools volunteer at PREPARES Family Center. They helped sort through donations, fill baby/toddler clothing requests, bundle diapers and help us with cleaning and organizing our space.

Thank you to these amazing young people and those who helped schedule and transport them to serve at PREPARES.



Family Resource Coordinators

UPDATE: March 2025

Recently PREPARES Family Center made a change to our protocol with human service professionals, (care coordinators, case managers, home visitors, resource coordinators, peer support specialists, etc.) who place clothing/item/diaper requests on behalf of clients.

We are requiring parents to contact us with their request and if they are unable to pick up their requests, they can give the name of the person who will pick up on their behalf.

This means if you have a parent you are serving with a schedule or transportation barrier, please have them call or email us and have them give your name as the pick up person. If it's after hours or we are on the other line, parents are welcome to leave a voicemail as well. Email is great mode of communication since busy parents can send a quick email anytime, day or night, with their concrete goods request.

For clients with a language barrier, they are welcome to email us and we can use a translating app to communicate.

This must be done every time they want you to pick up diapers, clothing or a large item for them. The GREAT news, is that we no longer need completed client consent forms on file, since we will be hearing from parent directly about who will pick up for them.

We made this change because we were missing opportunities in engaging with parents served through a third party and our desire is to be more aligned in our mission statement of creating hope, strengthening families and transforming generations.

Thank you for your support and understanding!

Family Resource Coordinator update letter: CLICK HERE