Adopt-A-Family
The “Miracle on McClay"
A supplement to our integrated services, the Adopt-A-Family program assures that parents with children and the elderly will have Christmas by providing them with food and gifts and is available to those being provided assistance through other programs.
For the annual event, the Care Service coordinates the adoption of more than 350 families in need by neighbors, local organizations, social groups, churches, schools and businesses. The process begins in the fall by signing up families who request to be adopted. In October, we begin matching the families with those individuals and groups who wish to adopt them.
All families and adopters are matched by Thanksgiving and the event takes place over a weekend in December.
Want to Adopt-A-Family?
If you choose to adopt a family, you will be provided with the first name of each family member as well as their age and wish list. You will be asked to provide at least three gifts for each family member or as many as you would like in addition to that. All gifts should be wrapped and individually marked with the name of the family member for whom it is intended. You may choose the size of the family you wish to adopt, ranging in size from single persons to families of twelve.
You will also be asked to provide Christmas dinner, which should include a gift certificate for the dinner or a gift certificate for meat plus your choice of boxed side dishes that you think would make for a nice Christmas dinner. In addition, staple foods, paper products, cleaners, and personal care items are always in need if you have the means to provide them. These suggestions are necessities that many of our families cannot purchase with food stamps and therefore go without.