Sisterhood members will lead the morning service and connect with each other and the wider community through ritual and prayer. This year’s speaker is Rob Scheer, co-founder and CEO of Comfort Cases, which supports youth in foster care by replacing trash bags with backpacks filled with comfort items and essentials — restoring dignity and hope during a child’s first days in care.

There are two ways to support this mitzvah:
• Make a donation — No supplies needed! Contribute directly to help cover the cost of providing 200 backpacks and the items that will go inside them.
• Join the Packing Party — Register to help fill backpacks for local foster children. 

About our speaker
Rob Scheer is the proud father of five children from the foster care system who arrived at his home with trash bags. Growing up in foster care himself, Rob remembered feeling disposable as a child carrying a trash bag to his foster home, and he wondered how this could still be happening 30 years later. In 2013, the Scheer family set out on a mission to eliminate the use of trash bags in the foster care system and provide children entering the system with brand new essential and comfort items. To date, Comfort Cases has impacted over 200,000 children in the foster care system. Rob is currently the CEO of Comfort Cases, traveling the country to share his story and advocate for youth in foster care. He published his memoir in 2018: A Forever Family: Fostering Change One Child at a Time. Rob’s partner Reece cares for their five children at home.