Welcome to the Family Closet!
The Family Closet provides support to Wisconsin families with current foster placements, as well as adoptive, kinship, and guardianship families facing financial challenges due to their placements. It serves as Chosen’s primary resource, offering essential tangible goods for their children.
Generous community donations allow foster and adoptive families to shop at no cost for gently used clothing and shoes (newborn to teen) and other new items, including baby essentials (diapers, wipes, bottles, pacifiers, etc.), toys, baby equipment, and adaptive equipment for special needs. This program serves families in Southeastern Wisconsin in Waukesha and soon through our Mobile Family Closet!
All family shopping visits are by appointment. Please see below for details on scheduling appointments.
Getting Started at The Family Closet
New to Chosen?
Foster, adoptive, and kinship parents or guardians can complete our online intake form. You will be contacted shortly to schedule your first appointment.
Are you a Case Manager?
Please complete the electronic intake form or have the family do so.
Emergency Situations:
If you are facing an emergency placement or need, please email amalie@choseninlove.org or call 262.724.6736.
take a virtual peek at the Family Closet
See what The Family Closet is all about; click here.
How Do Donations Work?
We accept donations of gently used clothing and shoes for newborns through teens. Click here for more information and specific donation hours.
We also accept new items, including toys, school supplies, baby items, socks, underwear, and toiletries, which are stocked at The Family Closet. Our Amazon page provides an easy way to donate the most needed items for The Family Closet.
Volunteers Needed!
We are always in GREAT need of small volunteer sorting teams. Click here to complete our Volunteer interest form.
Waukesha Family Closet
400 Travis Lane #30, Waukesha, WI 53189
West Allis Family Closet
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IT ALL STARTED WHEN…
Amalie Bowling, Chosen’s Executive Director, began brainstorming ways to make life easier for Chosen families and reach more families in our community.
The Mobile Family Closet will allow us to bring “pop-up” closets to events attended by foster and adoptive families, as well as set up in strategic neighborhoods by partnering with local churches, businesses, and organizations. This initiative will enable us to schedule appointments closer to where families live, fostering more direct relationships and enhancing our support for them.
THANK YOU!!
Thank you to our Family Closet grantors and large donors!
We couldn’t do this work without you!
The Edge Contracting, LLC, Waukesha County Foster Care, Norris Beyond Fostering, Wellpoint Care Network, IAG Wealth Partners, West Allis Rotary Club, Knights of Columbus (West Allis), The ROS Foundation, Forest County Potawatomi Foundation, Brewers Community Foundation, Walmart, The Christ Foundation, The Catholic Community Foundation, Jockey Being Family, New Berlin Women’s Junior Club, Greater Delafield Community Foundation, Pick Charitable Trust, The Eaton Charitable Foundation, O’Rourke Family Foundation
