Time for Kids helps disadvantaged children and young people by matching them with volunteer carers or mentors on a regular part-time basis, usually one weekend or day a month, or during school holidays.
We aim to give children access to opportunities, positive role models, useful lessons for later in life, acceptance, respect and care. Children have a much needed break from what can often be a stressful home life.
Since 1960, we have helped more than 4600 South Australian children and their families. Today, the need is greater than ever and our waiting list continues to grow.
Can you help?
Time for Kids needs people of all ages to open their hearts and homes to children in need. Just one day or one weekend a month, or sharing some school holiday time, will make a world of difference to a child’s life.
If you have time, skills, resources or financial donations to share, please contact us.
'Research has shown that caring, mentoring relationships can result in children at risk of delinquency deal better with adolescence and developing into more self-reliant and responsible adults. This is essentially what Time for Kids has been doing for more than five decades.'
Professor Mark Halsey
Criminal Justice Program, Flinders University
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Time for Kids launch 2012 'First Friends' appeal
“During life we make various friends. Some endure and some we lose sight of, but all add warmth to our lives and develop our confidence. So a Sponsor may be a temporary friend or he may be a permanent one, but whichever he may be, he has often been the first friend to help some child up the ladder of life, the first to show that child he is of value.”
William Scales AM, Founder of Time for Kids
A Senior Magistrate in the Adelaide Juvenile Court, William Scales made this observation in 1962, just two years after establishing the Society of Sponsors in South Australia. His aim: to prevent children and young people from appearing in his Court due to a lack of positive role models and opportunities.
The Society of Sponsors became Time for Kids, and after 51 years of helping more than 4600 children and their families in South Australia, it is as true today as it was then.
In 2012 our goal is to find volunteer carers and mentors who can be positive role models for all of the children currently on our waiting list. This takes skill, patience, time and resources.
These generous First Friends provide the opportunities and care that give disadvantaged children and young people the chance to thrive.
With your help, we can find and support the 124 volunteer families and individuals who can be a ‘first friend’ to a child in need.
Thank you for investing in the future of South Australian children and ensuring that every one of them has the opportunity to thrive.
