Parent Care Collective

11/01/2026

💜 Domestic violence affects more than just the person experiencing it. Children are watching, listening, and trying to understand.

Every child deserves to know:
💜 It is not your fault.
💜 It is not your job to fix it.
💜 You deserve to feel safe.
💜 You deserve to be heard and believed.

At Parent Care Collective, some of the families we serve are escaping domestic violence or rebuilding their lives afterward.

We’ve created these educational resources to help families and trusted adults navigate difficult conversations about domestic violence, boundaries, and healthy relationships.

You don’t need to have all the answers. You just need to be someone safe enough to ask.

Please read, save, and share. You never know who might need these words today. 💜

For our neighbors. Always.

10/27/2026

❤️ Sometimes, the people carrying the heaviest burdens need a little extra love.

A mother in our community is facing the unimaginable. Her teenage daughter is facing deportation, and this family is living with fear, uncertainty, and heartbreak.

We can’t take away her pain. We can’t promise everything will be okay. But we can remind her that her community sees her, cares about her, and stands beside her.

Parent Care Collective is putting together a special self-care basket just for this mom. We’re looking for donations of cozy blankets, lotions, candles, chocolates, comforting treats, or anything that might bring her a moment of peace.

No mother should have to carry this kind of fear alone.

If you’d like to help us wrap this mom in a little extra love, please reach out. ❤️

For our neighbors. Always.

10/27/2026

Parent Care Collective is sending out craft kits with this week’s deliveries!

We can’t wait to see what creative masterpieces our kiddos come up with! 🌈✨

Sometimes a little glue, a few crayons, and a big imagination are all you need to make som**hing wonderful. ❤️

For our neighbors. Always.

10/27/2026

⭐️August Volunteers of the Month: Kat & Jordan⭐️

There are some people you learn very quickly you can count on. For Parent Care Collective, Kat and Jordan are those people.
Week after week, they show up as Conductors and make sure our families get what they need. They have delivered food, resources, tables, chairs, and honestly, who knows what else at this point. When we ask for help, their answer is almost always “yes,” and then they figure out how to make it happen.
Even when one of them isn’t available, they don’t simply say they can’t make it. They find their own substitute and make sure the job still gets done. That level of dependability means more to us than we can adequately express.
But Kat and Jordan do much more than deliver things. They put the safety of their neighbors above everything else. They have sat at tables and talked with people about Parent Care Collective, advocated for families and their needs, stepped into other roles when needed, and represented our mission with kindness and care.
They don’t just help Parent Care Collective, they believe in what we are doing and actively help us build it.
Kat and Jordan, thank you for every delivery, every “yes,” every problem you’ve figured out along the way, and every neighbor you’ve helped feel a little safer and a little more supported. You make a difference every single week, and we are incredibly grateful to have you with us.

10/27/2026

⭐️Volunteer of the Month September: Vicki⭐️

Not every person who makes Parent Care Collective work is someone you see on a Wednesday night. Some of the most meaningful work happens quietly, from home, when no one else is watching. Vicki is one of those people.
Vicki is the person behind our handwritten thank-you cards. She regularly checks our spreadsheet, keeps track of who needs to be thanked, writes each card by hand, makes it personal, and lets us know when it has been sent. It is a job that could easily become a quick email or a generic note but Vicki makes sure it never does.
In many ways, Vicki is one of our invisible partners. She may not always be physically in the room, but her impact is felt throughout Parent Care Collective. She makes sure the people who support our mission know that we noticed, that we are grateful, and that their contribution mattered.
Those small, personal touches are part of what makes Parent Care Collective feel like a community rather than just an organization.
Vicki, thank you for every card, every handwritten message, and every person you have made feel appreciated. Your work may happen behind the scenes, but the difference you make is anything but invisible. We are so grateful for you.

10/26/2026

🦃🧡 We’re on our way to Thanksgiving dinner for EVERY family!

Our community has already raised $250 toward our $2,400 Thanksgiving goal!

That’s enough to put a full Thanksgiving meal on the table for 6 families, with a little left over!

But we’re dreaming bigger.

We want EVERY family served by Parent Care Collective to have a Thanksgiving meal without worrying about how they’re going to afford it.

🦃 Our goal: $2,400

🧡 Raised so far: $250

🥧 Still needed: $2,150

At just $39 per family, every donation brings another household closer to a holiday meal.

Can we make this happen, neighbors? We think we can!

Donate here:
https://www.mightycause.com/story/ParentCareColletive

For our neighbors. Always. 💜

To ensure that every family has access to food.

10/22/2026

My friends, family, and neighbors,

Thank you so much for your deeply valued partnership, continued support, and steadfast dedication to our community. Thanks to your remarkable generosity and kindness, this past month we achieved several meaningful milestones together:

- Helping a local high school student receive brand-new tennis shoes and sweatpants.
- Providing a young elementary school student with new hijabs so she no longer has to wear the same one each day.
- Continuing to support our Sunflower family so they feel truly embraced, comforted, and cared for as they settle into their new life here in Minnesota.

Additionally, we continue to need volunteers on Wednesdays anytime between 10am and 8pm. There is always som**hing to do for every skill level.

As Thanksgiving approaches, our heart and central focus is ensuring every single family we serve can gather around the table and enjoy a warm holiday meal through the $39 Aldi Thanksgiving meal campaign.

So far, we have raised $220 toward our total campaign goal of $2,400. We would be immensely grateful for your ideas, insight, and support on how we can bridge this gap and make this vision a tangible reality for our families. Whether by sharing our campaign across your network, connecting us with potential sponsors or donors, or contributing directly, your active involvement makes a profoundly meaningful difference.

Thank you again for every single thing you do to wrap your arms around our community.

Warmly,

Robin

10/22/2026

A young man in our community needed sweatpants and shoes. We put out the call, and our donors delivered!

Not just shoes and sweatpants, but socks and a little extra love, too.

Sometimes the smallest things make the biggest difference.

Neighbors helping neighbors. That’s what it’s all about.

10/21/2026