Keeping Kids Connected Helps
Military Children
Stay Connected With
Their Families!
Send a military child a personalized story for
a Full Year with a Parent or Family Member!
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About US
Keeping Kids Connected helps the unsung heroes of our military: The 1.5 million children who didn’t choose to serve but make the greatest of sacrifices.
Military children are seriously affected by the separation from their parents, grandparents, and their extended families. In an attempt to help children deal with these issues and stay connected with their families, KKC was formed as the non-profit arm of F & S Industries LLC and The Adventures Of Series (www.AdventuresOf.Kids).
Our objective is to improve communication between military children and their parents and extended families. Long-distance relationships can kill a relationship, we don’t want that to happen to our military children. It’s extremely important to their development to stay connected with their families.
Our Mission
It’s KKC’s mission to help the 840,000 military children ages 3 – 11 stay connected and build a solid relationship with their families. By sending each child a personalized yearlong story and a toy, a special bond will grow and solidify. Each child will receive the following:
- A yearlong PERSONALIZED serial book where children and adults are the main characters and illustrations of a story
- Each story contains 68 8” x 10” Full Color Pages
- 17 Chapters received every 3 weeks for a FULL Year
- The adult(s) receive an electronic version to follow along
- A special book to place the pages and read the chapters as they arrive
- It’s like sending a child a gift every 3 weeks for a year
Military Children Suffer
The effects of service on children are significant, here are just some of the sad facts:
- Military families relocate 10 times more often than civilian families, approximately every 2years.
- Outpatient mental health visits provided to children of active-duty parents doubled from one million to two million.
- Total days of inpatient psychiatric care for children of active-duty personnel 14 and under increased from 35,000 to 55,000.
- Children in military families experience high rates of mental health, trauma, and related problems. About 30% reported feeling sad or hopeless almost every day for 2 weeks during the past 12 months. Nearly 1 in 4 reported having considered suicide.
- Negative effects reported included changes in school performance, lashing out in anger, worrying, hiding emotions, disrespecting parents and authority figures, feeling a sense of loss, and symptoms consistent with depression.
- Academic problems occurred in one in five children.
It’s these little ones who suffer the most from being separated from their parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Regrettably, some children lose those connections forever.
You Can Help
KKC is committed to fiscal responsibility, efficiency, and low overhead in all we do. We are proud to report that 100% of every dollar contributed to KKC is applied directly to sending military children personalized stories, books, and toys. All costs, story production, and delivery of the stories and toys are provided by F&S Industries.
Every $100 donation sends one military child a personalized story every 3 weeks for a Full YEAR!
Keeping Kids Connected is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt public charity, Federal Tax ID #: 92-3354282.
All contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowable by law.
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