Change is in always in the air.
Particularly after a storm.

For the children of Rainbows, change has already come. The storm has already raged and left them reeling from its fury: Mom has lost her battle with cancer; Dad left for real this time; Daddy’s overseas trip turned into heroism as he lost his life for our country; Or mom was checked into rehabilitation again.

These sad realities for kids bear serious consequences for us all. When kids are left in pain, confusion or angry they are vulnerable to behaviors and patterns that impact our shared community. They use drugs to mask their hurt, act out violently in desperation or suffer silently never to realize their true potential.

Rainbows remains dedicated – for over 27 years – to these children. We are committed to restoring hope and fostering emotional healing among boys and girls who experience painful realities too early.

And Rainbows works. Independent evaluations, parent assessments and our children’s personal feedback confirm that our program helps children move beyond a crisis to place where they do not survive, but learn to thrive after adversity!

Rainbows works as we witness six-year-old Meave become animated and boisterous after participating in our program for eight weeks. Previously, Maeve spent months reverting to thumb-sucking and bedwetting after her father’s sudden death.

Rainbows works as we learned from a volunteer about a suicide note entrusted to him by a teen who claimed at their last meeting, “you can have this, I don’t need it anymore.” This teen, Jason, had struggled for four years after his parent’s divorce. Rainbows gave them a chance to vent, to connect, and to breathe again.

Rainbows works as each year more than 150,000 kids enroll at their local school, faith community or social service agency to participate. Each year, more alumni of our program return to share the impact it had on them last year, ten years ago, twenty-two years ago…many still keepers of the original journal we gave them to work through in program.

And so, it is just for those same journals that I write for your help. The Rainbows organization is in the midst of significant change too. This change will help us continue in our tradition of compassionate response, while ensuring we have a more profound impact on each child we reach.

It is time to revise the core journals our kids use during the course of our programs. Our kids deserve a fresh, relevant face to greet them at each Rainbows meeting. So it is a pleasure to introduce Kera, Tamika, Juan and Bill. These characters were designed exclusively for our journals and each have a unique narrative of loss and healing that Rainbows’ children can relate to as they work through our program. Then, it is in these journals where our kids will capture their own stories of loss and rewrite their future of hope!

To produce new journals for our kids and print the hundreds of thousands who use them each year, I need your help. Please send a gift of $15 to help bring these characters to life for a child. Your gift will create one new, hope-filled journal for a child in need.

Of course, if you can help an entire Rainbows group, consider sending $75.

Or a gift of $375 helps one local community site bring the program to life for their kids.

P.S. As you read about Rainbows kids, perhaps you realize you were just such a child yourself. Or a child you love is in such a situation currently. I ask you to please consider how Rainbows could have helped you or can help a child you know right now! We can and do help… with your support.

P.S.S. A gift of a new journal today means you join us as a compassionate steward of hope… sharing our umbrella with kids caught in the storm of life. Share your umbrella. Spread hope.