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Since February I’ve been working with a team of social workers, faith communities, and child care professionals to create an organization called Skookum Kids that would care for children in their first 72 hours of foster care.

There’s a huge need for this nationwide, but here in my home of Bellingham Washington it’s particularly acute.

When children enter the foster care system, social workers often struggle to find a place for children to stay. A sustainable solution to this problem has already been created in next-door Everett, Washington. A facility called Safe Place receives children as they enter foster care, taking pressure off social workers and giving the children entering foster care a much softer landing. Through divine appointment I met the director of Safe Place in Everett. And when I expressed interest in building an extension in Bellingham, he was incredibly supportive and encouraging. He shared both his business plan and a huge amount of hard-earned wisdom. We are starting now with the benefit of his experience and his full support.

I am optimistic that we could be caring for children as early as the first quarter of 2015, and I’d love to have your support. Our biggest needs right now are visibility and donations.

You can give through our crowdfunding campaign, and choose from a variety of perks only available to our startup supporters.

And I’d love your help spreading the word through email, facebook, twitter, smoke signal, carrier pidgeon—any means necessary. We need your help!

For convenience, feel free to use these links to share quickly:

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(sorry, no link for carrier pigeons)

If you’d like to stay connected with Skookum Kids as it develops, you can subscribe to receive email updates, and I’ll be sure to keep you informed as things develop.

Thank you in advance,

Ray Deck III

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