“Sponsor-a-Family” is the holiday program that provides food and gifts to low income families, Geauga County foster children and seniors in Geauga County.
Geauga County Job and Family Services has coordinated the Sponsor-a-Family Program during the holiday season for more than 40 years. Churches, civic groups, organizations, companies, and individuals participate in the program by choosing to either “sponsor” a family for the holidays, or they can help us collect needed items which we pack and deliver to families not matched with a community sponsor.
Sponsor-a-Family is a unique program supported solely through donations and would not be possible without the generosity of community members. Volunteers are essential to the success of the program and spend time sorting food and gifts. Once the sorting is completed, bags of food for the families and gifts for the children are packed and delivered. Deliver day this year is December 21, 2015.
The program received this note after the holidays last year from a grandparent raising her grandchildren:
“To all the kind people who made it possible to give my grandchildren a wonderful Christmas…I felt embarrassed to ask for help but knew I had to for my grandchildren. Words cannot express how grateful I am that this program exists. The people who went out of their way to help me confirmed to me what Christmas is all about. From the bottom of my heart I thank you.”
If you would like to make a donation, sponsor a family, volunteer time, or if you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact Rex Brobst at 440-285-9141, ext. 1263.
Monetary donations are accepted. Checks must be made payable to Special Services of Geauga County and may be mailed to P.O. Box 309, Chardon, Ohio 44024. Please indicate Sponsor a Family in the memo portion of the check.
