Kingswood Youth Center in Wolfeboro provides a safe, positive environment in which youth may grow, learn, and develop important life skills critical to their success in the adult world. The KYC provides free out-of-school programming to 7-12 grade teens in the seven Eastern Lakes Region towns comprising the Governor Wentworth Regional School District. Free programs include afterschool, evening, school vacation, and mentoring programs.

For over ten years End 68 Hours of Hunger, Wolfeboro Chapter has put nourishing food in the hands of children in Pre-K through Grade 6 in the Wolfeboro, Tuftonboro, Ossipee, Middleton, Brookfield, and Effingham communities, Ossipee Headstart, and the OCC Children’s Daycare Center, who experience hunger for the approximately 68 hours that occur between school on Friday and Monday morning. We feed an average of 150 children per week.

Since 2020, Restoration Acres Farm in Meredith has reduced food insecurity in and around the Belknap County area by providing free meals as well as meal bags so people can cook at home. Restoration Acres Farm has a community garden and this year is erecting a greenhouse to grow more for the community and supply more local sources of food for our meals. We have a farmstand open 7 days a week that also has dry goods & household needs for anyone who needs them.

Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of NH provides a voice for abused and neglected children and youth by empowering a statewide network of trained volunteers to advocate on their behalf so they can thrive in safe, permanent homes. CASA is the only nonprofit with this mission in the state, with 7 offices throughout NH to provide critical advocacy services for victimized children. Over the past 34 years, 2,000 trained CASA volunteers have served over 12,000 court-involved children and youth from birth to 21 years of age who have been abused and/or neglected by their parents or primary caregivers.