“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 45 years. Low income families with children, Geauga County foster children, and low income seniors are given first priority. Churches, civic groups, organizations, businesses, and individuals participate 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. Last year, the program served 1,716 people in Geauga County.
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 19th.
If you wonder whether the Sponsor-a-Family Program makes a difference, this is one of many thank you notes received last Christmas,
“Words cannot express our sincere gratitude for our generosity of gifts for our children. Your gifts helped put a big smile on our children’s faces as they opened them Christmas morning. Thank you for supporting our family after a difficult year. Without your help, we would not have been able to provide them with Christmas. From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you and hope we can one day do the same for someone
else.”
If you would like to make a donation, sponsor a family, volunteer time, or if you have any additional questions, please call 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.
