The Christmas Box International (CBI) partners with Utah’s child welfare agencies and charities to serve over 10,400 children, teens and young adults annually who experience abuse, neglect or face homelessness. In 1998, New York Times best-selling author Richard Paul Evans founded CBI with the motto that every child deserves a childhood. CBI strives to reduce children’s trauma, provide meaningful resources and community activities, and to help them thrive long-term. The Christmas Box Houses in Salt Lake, Ogden, and Moab, Utah provide about 900 children removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect with emergency shelter care, health, therapeutic, educational, and recreational services. Our ten community-based Christmas Box Resource Rooms provide about 5,200 at-risk youth statewide with hundreds of thousands worth of new children’s items each year. JourneyUP Project serves about 820 young adults 14-22 years old who age out of foster care or face homelessness with little or no supports, by providing in-kind items, household items for move-in kits, community activities, and connections to community resources. Project Elf distributes holiday gifts annually to about 2,600 at-risk children and youth statewide.