\n Local residents can ensure foster youth have stockings an d presents to open this holiday season\, thanks to United Way’s Women in P hilanthropy and Sacramento County’s Gifts From The Heart program. Visit ww w.yourlocalunitedway.org to sign up to bring specific gifts for children i n Sacramento County’s Child Protective Services. Local residents also can provide a $30 donation to purchase a holiday stocking for a foster youth p reparing for emancipation. All items must be received by 4 p.m. on Dec. 3 at United Way’s office\, 10389 Old Placerville Road\, Sacramento. For more information\, contact Leslie Ortiz at lortiz@uwccr.org or (916) 856-3977.
\n\n United Way’s Women in Philanthropy brings women together to fo ster the future\, preparing foster youth for a successful adulthood. A dyn amic group of businesswomen\, homemakers and community leaders\, Women in Philanthropy members raise funds\, hold drives and provide trainings focus ed on helping foster youth rise to their dreams. The group also is a partn er in United Way’s $en$e-Ability project\, helping foster youth become fin ancially self-sufficient through financial literacy courses and individual development accounts that provide a matched savings program. For more inf ormation\, visit www.yourlocalunitedway.org/wip.
\n\n Sacramento Cou nty’s Gifts from the Heart is an annual holiday gift-giving program that o perates on donations and benefits children and seniors who are in the Depa rtment of Health and Human Services’ system of care. For more information\ , call (916) 875-2027.
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