In 1981, the A. Miriam Jamison Children’s Center was established in response to the growing number of reported child abuse cases in Kern County. The Jamison Children’s Center is a 24-hour Temporary Shelter Care Facility, operated by the Human Services Department of Kern County. As the only emergency shelter in Kern County for abused, neglected […]
For over 40 years the Westchester Kiwanis Club of Bakersfield has provided a Christmas Shopping Spree including breakfastfor approximately 60 underprivileged children in ourcommunity. Many times these are the only Christmas gifts andcelebration the children will receive. The Club provides $150 foreach child to purchase gifts for their family and themselves.
The Bakersfield Ronald McDonald House is a place where the families of Kern County pediatric or NICU patients can go to take a break from the hospital environment. It serves as a "home away from home" that gives the non-hospitalized part of the family a sense of normalcy in a time when their world is […]
