Forever R Children (FRC), is a local non-profit serving Akron Summit County, Ohio communities. Forever R Children’s provides mobile services and connections for the economically insecure who are not adequately supported by existing services and systems. Founded in 2019 by Robert P. Ford Jr., a Lead in Akron’s Goodyear Final Finish Department and a recipient of the 2022 Jefferson Award. Rob saw the immediate, observable, and undeniable need for basic human necessities among mainstream at-risk youth, adults, veterans, and children with disabilities and began working to eliminate the disparity he witnessed. While serving the community, he encountered citizens without homes who simply wanted the ability to take a shower. Consequently, he launched the campaign in March of 2022 to develop a mobile hygiene unit (SHOWER BUS). The Akron Metro Regional Transit Authority donated a transit bus to Forever R Children it as a shower bus for the unhoused population in the Greater Akron area. The bus began its retrofit process in May of 2023. Since its establishment in November 2019, Forever R Children has achieved significant milestones such as setting up food pantries in local schools, organizing monthly food giveaways in underserved communities, arranging trips for youth with disabilities, expanding to provide clothing, shoes, toiletries, and household items, assisting veterans with transportation needs, and offering mentoring and support to at-risk youth in Ohio. Forever R Children collaborates with Project Rise, Akron Street Card, and Summit Medina County United Way 211.