Touch-A-Truck Salinas '26

 Join us on Sunday, September 13, 2026, from 12 PM to 4 PM at the Salinas Rodeo Grounds! 

Each year, Coastal Kids provides 5500 home visits to 660 medically fragile children and provides more than 1,000 counseling sessions for 130 children and teens. Each day, our team of nurses, therapists, and social workers travel across four counties to bring quality in-home care to children. Thanks to our grants, events sponsorships, private donations, and tireless hours from staff, Coastal Kids Home Care has provided more than 80,000 nursing and therapy visits to over 11,000 children coping with illness and disability since 2005.

For over a decade, Coastal Kids has put on Touch-A-Truck in Salinas -- the signature fundraiser for Coastal Kids Home Care. The event includes vehicles, food trucks, entertainment, and more. Children and adults can climb into a fire engine, explore a bulldozer, and get behind the wheel of a big rig. They can learn about CPR, build a toy truck, and enjoy carnival games all while enjoying tasty treats. The event has grown from a small grassroots effort to an eagerly anticipated community event attracting over 1,000 kids and kids at heart. And some of our most special patients have enjoyed the event year after year. 

Proceeds from TOUCH-A-TRUCK have always benefited Coastal Kids Home Care--our area's only provider of in-home medical, social service, and therapy visits to children living with illness in our community.