Nevada Egg hunt raises awareness of foster care

LAS VEGAS (KLAS)— It’s a hunt for a very good trigger and dozens got here out Saturday morning in assist of SAFY’s Easter egg hunt.

SAFY which stands for ‘Specialised Alternate options for Households and Youth’ offers therapeutic care to foster children within the system who want psychological well being assist.

Caitlin Johnson from the group stated this occasion is all about elevating consciousness for that trigger.

“We determined we have been going to cover one egg for each youngster and teenage that has been impacted by foster care in Clark County over the past decade,” defined Johnson. “In order that totaled 60,000 Easter eggs and we additionally actually wished to drive house the purpose of our children are everywhere in the county, so we selected 30 parks throughout like Henderson, Mountains Edge, all the way in which as much as North Las Vegas and in all places in between.”

Every egg accommodates a QR code and when scanned offers extra info on the group, how one can volunteer and donate, and way more.

Jennifer Chassereau, alongside along with her 2 children stated the egg hunt highlights an essential situation all whereas having some enjoyable on the identical time.

“It means loads to us as a result of truly Gwendolyn and Jack each bought donations to stuff the eggs they usually did just a little drive and we volunteered to stuff the eggs,” stated Chassereau. “We truly went out and hid all of the eggs this morning, so it’s good to see them do one thing good for the group.”

In case you weren’t capable of come out to the occasion, Johnson stated there are many methods to nonetheless assist our foster youth.

“Whether or not that’s offering donations, cash or gadgets or volunteering even with issues like this, we all the time have volunteer alternatives out there on our web site,” added Johnson. “So you may examine that out at safy.org. Or you may turn out to be a foster mum or dad or respite mum or dad. A respite mum or dad is short-term foster care and foster mother and father are wanted on a regular basis.”

For extra info, you may try www.safy.org/nevada/las-vegas/