Material Goods-All male clients 7 to 18 years old

Clothing Needs:

  • Wal-Mart Gift Cards
  • Boys' and men's socks
  • Jeans, especially size 34-inch waist and large sizes 40 to 44
  • Belts (34” and larger)
  • Boys' medium and large t-shirts
  • Boys' and men's pajamas/pajama pants
  • Boxers youth size 10 or larger including men’s sizes
  • Gloves
  • Winter hats
  • Winter coats
  • Shoe strings (extra long because they are often put in high top tennis shoes)

Personal Care Needs:

  • Bed Pillows
  • Fitted twin-size mattress pads
  • Full Sized Bath Towels
  • Shampoo
  • Hair gel
  • Deodorant
  • Antibacterial liquid soap
  • Deodorant soap bars
  • Disposable Razors
  • Shaving cream
  • Brush/combs
  • Laundry soap
  • Band-aids/Triple antibiotic ointment

Epworth Village Learning Center Needs:

  • Markers (for dry erase boards)
  • Markers for student use
  • Lined Paper/Composition notebooks (no spiral)
  • Washable paints
  • Folders
  • Snack food items
  • Bulletin board design materials

Art Equipment Needs:

  • Colored pencils
  • Markers (both permanent and non-permanent)
  • Paint Brushes
  • Chalk
  • Sketch pads

Physical Education Equipment:

  • Basketballs
  • Baseball mitts, left and right-handed
  • Soccer balls
  • Frisbees
  • Softballs
  • Footballs
  • Volleyballs
  • Board Games

Treasure Box Items

Treasure Box Items are the fun items that are dispersed to clients at the Epworth Village Learning Center and in the Residential Treatment facilities as they move up the “level system.” These items are those special “extras” that make the clients’ time at Epworth more rewarding and fun!
  • gel pens
  • mechanical pencils, (lead for the mechanical pencils)
  • big erasers
  • pencil erasers
  • decorated pencils
  • sugar free candy
  • mints
  • Sports cards
  • Stickers
  • art supplies
  • matchbox cars
  • miniature stuffed animals
  • action figures (no violent or sexually explicit)
  • animal figures
  • little games
  • marker sets
  • colored-pencil sets
  • single-color packets of construction paper
  • note books (no spiral notebooks)
  • journals
  • fast food meal certificates
  • Wal-Mart gift cards
  • craft sets
  • fancy scrap booking paper

The “Great Paper Challenge”

To meet the paper product needs of Epworth Village, Inc. for one month we need:

  • 150 boxes of Kleenex
  • 300 rolls of paper towels
  • 300 rolls of toilet paper
  • 8,000 napkins

To run our agency and school we also need white copy paper and lined notebook paper (no spiral notebooks).

The Epworth Village Shoe Fund

Consider donating to the Epworth Village Shoe Fund. Due to health code regulations, we cannot take used shoes. As a result, monetary donations help us purchase new shoes that fit the diverse sizes and ages of the children we serve. Gift cards to Wal-Mart designated to purchasing shoes is also a great way to help this portion of our needs list!

Designated Giving Programs

The Epworth Village, Inc. Designated Giving Program is a great way for supporters to help with our array of needs in each department.

Donate online or send a check. Please indicate in the “memo line” of your check which of the following areas you would like your donation to go to:

Therapy Department

Ten Masters Level therapists are employed by the agency. Monies collected for the Therapy Department may go towards:
Donate online or send a check. Please indicate in the “memo line” of your check which of the following areas you would like your donation to go to:

Supplies for "Play Therapy", Library resources for therapeutic techniques, bringing in presentations to enhance therapeutic skills in the areas of Cognitive and Dialectical Behavioral Therapies, Expansion projects to provide adequate space to conduct therapeutic services to children and families

Epworth Village Learning Center

Approximately 25 teachers, para-professionals and support staff serve students at our school. Monies collected for the Education Department may go towards:

New textbooks for students, broader curriculum resources to be used by teachers, art materials, computer technology that will allow students to utilize interactive learning tools and physical education equipment

Residential Facilities

Our Unit Managers and Life Skills Trainers are dedicated to giving children tools to use to live better lives. Monies collected for our six, residential facilities may go towards:

Kitchen utensils, art equipment needs, curriculum materials for Life Skills classes, cottage health equipment needs, cottage sports equipment needs or purchasing new appliances such as washers/dryers/stoves

Checks may be mailed to:

Remember to indicate on the memo line of your check whether you want the donation to go to the: Therapy Department, Epworth Village Learning Center or Residential Facilities.

Epworth Village, Inc.
2119 Division Ave.
York, NE. 68467

For more information on ways to volunteer or become partners with
Epworth Village, Inc. in a variety of ways contact:

Kerry Hoffschneider
Director of Community Relations
(402) 362-3353 ext. 1144
kerry@epworthvillage.org