Volunteers

You Can Make A Difference
Free Arts depends on the time and talent of volunteers, who bring love, creativity and healing to the children and families our programs serve. Free Arts for Abused Children recruits, trains, places and effectively supports its large corps of volunteers who work hands-on with victims of abuse. With your help we can protect our ultimate investment – future generations.

The Population You Can Help
Free Arts reaches children, infancy to eighteen years of age, who have been removed from their homes due to abuse, abandonment or neglect, and families determined by the court to be “at-risk”. Most of the children served by Free Arts have been placed in a care facility by the Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of Probation or the Department of Mental Health. Free Arts volunteers provide our programs directly to this population where they live or receive services: residential care, outpatient and shelter care facilities, foster care agencies, emergency shelters, and the Edelman Children’s Courthouse.

The children and adolescents served by Free Arts include dependents of the state as well as victims of abuse and family violence who are not under the protective custody of the courts. This population includes children who have been sexually abused or who have drug or alcohol dependencies. Depending on the specific case, a child could be in protective custody anywhere from as little as 72 hours or through their eighteenth birthday at which time they are “emancipated” from the system, unless they are still attending school.

A residential care facility can range in size from a small six-bed group home to a care facility that houses several hundred children.

Outpatient facilities treat children and/or adults while the family resides together. Such facilities intervene and educate the families in an effort to prevent and treat child abuse.

An emergency shelter will take care of the child for up to 72 hours until another placement is made.

A foster family agency provides umbrella services for individuals wanting to become foster parents as well as families who already take care of children in the foster system.

A domestic violence shelter provides temporary housing for a parent and their children who have fled from a dangerous home environment.


Thanks, any questions call us at (310) 313-4278 or email info@freearts.org

Make a Difference—Volunteer



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