Chapter #417 Maugansville, MD
Mission
It is our desire for every child to experience unconditional love, hope and safety.
Values
At FTC Maugansville, our core values are dignity, courage, safety, transformation, prevention and belonging.
For the Children Chapter #417 is a local non-profit dedicated to advocating for foster children or children from hard places in Washington County, Maryland. We are proud to be supported by different organizations in the community, including Maugansville Church and the Maugansville Ruritan Club. Summer 2024 will be our inaugural Camp and we are excited to have the opportunity to bless children in our community who have faced hardships with the love of Christ.
Our Camp Director team consists of Tommy Hogue and Lisa Hogue. Collectively, they have a passion to give the children we serve a fun and safe environment, where they can enjoy the childhood they deserve. We desire to show them that there is a God who loves them and that they have a community that cares about them and will support them.
Working with our Board of Directors, For The Children - Maugansville, Inc. is excited to support our Camp Director Staff and work together to bring Royal Family Kids Camp to Washington County! Please consider supporting us financially or joining our team to make camp a wonderful experience for the children in our community who need us the most!
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Stat #1
The reported number of children in foster care in Washington County Maryland alone
541
Stat #2
The reported number of homeless children in Washington County Maryland alone
1
Stat #3
Only 1 camp exists in the state of Maryland prior to FTC Maugansville. They were able to serve 7 children. We can not accept this number.
Same Heart, New Name, Bigger Impact.
We are now For The Children and here’s why.
For 30 years, volunteers, churches, businesses, local municipal partners and Royal Family Kids staff have dedicated their time, talent and treasures to help transform the lives of vulnerable children across the US, and world.
While RFK has formally overseen our camps and mentoring programs, the breadth of our work has evolved far beyond these two programs. Today we provide direct trauma intervention, advocacy, fostering, adoption, support to parents, and other crucial wraparound services.
While we acknowledge the expansion of our work across our 252 chapters, COVID-19 has profoundly increased the needs of children and families. Extreme gaps in fulfilling these needs cannot be overstated.
In order to address the systemic issues surrounding child welfare today, our organization must respond.
Consequently, as of November 2020, Royal Family KIDS, will officially be renamed For The Children. This transition will bring clarity to new opportunities, from providing laptops and shoes to needy children, to assisting overburdened social workers, to providing temporary shelter.
The teaching and example of Jesus in caring for “the least of these” will remain our motivation. As For The Children, we are also eager to focus on the systemic issues facing children, around the globe.
