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, with locations in Waukesha and West Allis.

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

6751 W. Greenfield Ave, West Allis, WI 53214

Thank you to our recent Family Closet grantors and large donors!

We couldn’t do this work without you!

The Edge Contracting, LLC: Waukesha operations donor.

IAG Wealth Partners, West Allis Rotary Club, Knights of Columbus (West Allis), ROS Foundation, Forest County Potawatomi Foundation, Brewers Community Foundation, Green Bay Packers Foundation, Jockey Being Family, Meijer, Walmart, and The Christ Foundation.