Program Overview
ReFresh is a nonprofit resale store in St. Louis offering affordable, name-brand fashion for all sizes and styles. Every purchase supports children impacted by foster care, helping provide the essentials they need. Powered by staff and dedicated volunteers, ReFresh makes it easy to shop with purpose and give back to your community.
Sign Up to VolunteerOur Vision
For Every Child . . . A Place to Call Home
Our vision is for a community that embraces its most vulnerable members, ensuring that each child in foster care has an opportunity for a healthy, successful life by providing safe, nurturing homes, and a support system for foster and adoptive families as they fulfill the physical, mental, and emotional needs of the children in their care.
Our Mission
The Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition strives to create permanency in the lives of children impacted by foster care by recruiting and supporting foster and adoptive families in the metropolitan St. Louis region.
Our Values
Intention, Dignity, and Urgency: We respond to individual needs, histories, and obstacles with intention, dignity, and urgency.
Family and Connection: We are family. We are connected and support one another.
Inclusion and Empowerment: Together, we thrive by respecting and celebrating each person’s unique strengths and experiences.
Innovation and Excellence: We are intentional about knowing better and doing better.
Integrity and Transparency: We maintain a culture of trust, respect, transparency, and honesty.
Advocacy and Accountability: We stand up for each other and what is right for our clients and stakeholders.
Authentic Relationships: We develop authentic relationships and maximize the strengths of each individual.
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Join our mission to change child welfare.
Founded in 1989, the Coalition has emerged as an innovative national leader in foster care reform. You can make a difference today.
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