Giving back has never been sweeter. Pick up a treat at any participating Sugarfina location in Pasadena, Arcadia or Glendale on June 28, 2019 and they’ll give 15% of the proceeds back to Five Acres. Come by for a tasting and leave knowing you’ve done something good for kids in need in LA!
BLUE is the color of Foster Care Month and a fun way to celebrate the sweetness of family! Bring your loved ones out for a special treat and try the Five Acres Blueberry Bar ice cream at Mother Moo Creamery in Sierra Madre on May 17â19 and theyâll donate 100% of proceeds back to our programs supporting foster youth and at-risk families âĽ
BLUE is the color of Foster Care Month and a fun way to celebrate the sweetness of family! Bring your loved ones out for a special treat and try the “Five Acres” ice cream float (gourmet Dads cream soda, taro ice cream and rich whipped cream) at Float Pasadena any time during May 2019 and they’ll donate 15% of proceeds back to our programs supporting foster youth and at-risk families âĽ
Five Acresâ Desert Oasis Gala Sponsorship Committee â (front row, left to right) Mimi Carter, Shoshana Puccia, Chris Selak, Katie McDonald; (second row, left to right) Chelby Crawford, Kelly MercadĂŠ, RenĂŠe Chang, Michele Doll, Jennifer Berger, Trish Gonzales; (back row, left to right) Don Boline, Sue McGuirl, Matt McIntyre, Natalie Bazarevitsch, Nicole Rasic.Â
Event to support foster youth, mental health for at-risk families in Southern California
Five Acres invites the community to join them for a spectacular evening in support of vulnerable children at their Desert Oasis Gala on Saturday, June 2, 2019 in Pasadena. Hosted at the home of Jennifer and Shawn McCreight, this yearâs event spotlights the Southern California we call home and will include a cocktail reception, gourmet meal, live DJ, tempting auction items and special touches like the â5A Lemonade Standâ with unique raffle prizes.
The gala follows on the heels of National Foster Care Month this May, with more than 20,000 children in Los Angeles alone in need of loving, permanent families. All proceeds from the evening will fund Five Acresâ critical work in foster care, adoption and mental/behavioral health services for more than 9,700 kids and families served annually by the nonprofit.
All six of Five Acresâ 2018 gala sponsorship committee chairs have resumed their roles with Kirsten Hansen and Matt McIntyre as co-chairs; Natalie Bazarevitsch and Don Boline as opportunity co-chairs; and Shoshana Puccia and Kris Ordaz as auction co-chairs. Actor and director Sarah Drew (âGreyâs Anatomy,â âEverwoodâ) will lend her support as guest emcee.
Guests at Desert Oasis will also have a chance to win a chance to see more of the world with fantastic live auction items including stays in Cabo San Lucas, Mammoth, Paris and even a private yacht trip in Ventura. Sponsors for the event include an anonymous Palm Springs Sponsor; Wells Fargo and Rusnak Auto Group as Paradise Sponsors; Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger and Comerica Bank as Indian Canyon (Tech) Sponsors; and Outlook Newspapers and Pasadena Now as print and digital media sponsors, respectively.
Individual tickets, sponsorships and underwriting opportunities for the gala are available now. Visit 5acres.org/gala or contact Five Acres at events@5acres.org | (626) 773-3776 to learn more.
In May 2019, in honor of National Foster Care Month, Five Acres launched our #Seen campaign to spotlight the nearly 20,000+ children growing up in LA without a permanent family. Without help, most of these children will age out of the system at high risk of becoming homeless, incarcerated or unemployed. Together with Five Acres, you can help prevent family separation and safely reunify foster youth with their families or connect them with loving adoptive parentâbut we have to act now.
Huge thanks to Matt Nix, Matthew Lillard, Justice Hardy and Andrea Briceno for your help with this film!
⢠Visibly post a free “Seen” poster in your place of work, worship or community
⢠Attend a foster parent info session or request Five Acres to come share with your sphere of influence. Don’t forget to follow us @fiveacresorg on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter!
⢠Resolve to act on behalf of these deserving children by filling out the form below
Join Five Acres’ young professionals guild for our first mixer as we eat, drink, network and explore how to support kids living in foster care right in our own backyard. Expect door prizes, fun auction items and music, too!
Tickets: $25 for single
DISCOUNT: Bring a friend and get $5 off for each of you!
Open to anyone 21 years or older. All food, drink and good times included in cost of ticket!
Want to learn more about The Alliance, Five Acres’ Young Professionals Volunteer and Advocacy Guild? Email Emily Peters at epeters@5acres.org for details.
Five Acres has received its fourth gift from the generous S. Mark Taper Foundation in support of its programs for vulnerable children and families.
[Altadena, Calif] January 29, 2019 â Family and child services nonprofit Five Acres has received a generous $100,000 grant from the S. Mark Taper Foundation. The unrestricted grant will be used to support Five Acresâ operational programs supporting safety, well-being and permanent family solutions for abused and neglected children.
The grant was awarded in December 2018 and will be applied over a one year period. Programs supported include foster care, adoption, short-term therapeutic residential treatment for foster youth and mental and behavioral services for vulnerable families in Southern California. The grant directly impacts the 9,700 children and families Five Acres serves to prevent family separation and to secure loving, permanent homes for the more than 20,000 children in Los Angeles living in foster care today.
The S. Mark Taper Foundation, founded in 1989, is a private family foundation dedicated to enhancing the quality of people’s lives by supporting nonprofit organizations and their work in our communities. This gift is the fourth awarded to Five Acres by the S. Mark Taper Foundation, totaling $375,000 in support since 1997.
About Five Acres
Five Acres is a child and family services agency ensuring every child has a safe, healthy and permanent family solution through advocacy, prevention and evidence-based services. Established as an orphanage in 1888, today Five Acres offers programs spanning a full continuum of care including community-based counseling and support services, intensive residential care for foster youth, and foster care and adoption services. In 2018, Five Acres served approximately 9,700 children and their families across five counties. Visit 5acres.org for more information.
There are currently more than 50,0000* homeless children in L.A.âmany of whom are current/former foster youth. As this crisis grows, we couldn’t turn a blind eye to the many children and families we serve who are visibly at high risk of becoming homeless.
You can help stem the tide of L.A.’s raging child homelessness crisis by preventing it before it happens. Your gift of $25, $100, $500 or more will fund our Giving Tuesday Homelessness Initiative to provide multiple families with:
*KPCC October 2017
Click the Donate button to visit Five Acres’ #GivingTuesday 2018 Crowdrise campaign page to make a donation.
The good people of Cathay Bank have donated $10,000 towards this year’s campaign to inspire you to give as well! Thank you Cathay Bank for caring for children in our community 
Chinling Chen, LCSW will re-join Five Acres as their Chief Program Officer of Prevention to keep families together and help prevent children from entering foster care.
[Los Angeles, Calif] October 9, 2018 â Five Acres is proud to announce Chinling Chen, LCSW, as the nonprofitâs new Chief Program Officer of Prevention. Chen will lead Five Acresâ programs in community-based mental and behavioral health care and help pioneer partnerships with other healthcare providers to help prevent family separation.
âIn 2017, Five Acres split the Chief of Program Officer role to include a Chief Program Officer of Prevention,â said Chanel Boutakidis, Five Acres CEO. âWith Chinlingâs impressive background in preventative care along with the operational stability and fiscal vitality weâve achieved this year, the timing is right to trailblaze more growth opportunities within our community to keep even more children and families together.â
Chen, who began at Five Acres in 2005, previously served as Five Acresâ Director of Community Based Specialty Programs and brings 17 years of experience in the child welfare and substance abuse treatment industries to her new role as CPOP. Before re-joining Five Acres, she served as Regional Vice President of Youth Services at Phoenix House, overseeing their California and Texas programs. She holds a Masterâs degree in social work from the University of California, Los Angeles and a B.S. in psychology from the University of California, San Diego.
About Five Acres
Five Acres is a child and family services agency ensuring every child has a safe, healthy and permanent family solution through advocacy, prevention and evidence-based services. Established as an orphanage in 1888, today Five Acres offers programs spanning a full continuum of care including community â based counseling and support services, intensive residential care for foster youth, and foster care and adoption services. In 2017, Five Acres served over 8,700 children and their families across five counties. Visit 5acres.org for more information.
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