The Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County is expanding its holiday Adopt-A-Family program in response to a surge in need due to last winter’s devastating storms and floods.
The Adopt-a-Family program provides gifts to hundreds of individual low-income children and teens. Here’s the warehouse where gifts are wrapped.
More than 500 families, including an estimated 1,500 children and teens, need support this holiday season. This is the largest number in the program’s history. Many more are on a waitlist.
The Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County is calling on the community to help meet this unprecedented demand.
Adopt-a-Family provides gifts, necessities, and grocery gift cards to program participants, ensuring each family member has a gift and enough food for a holiday meal.
The program also provides individual gifts to hundreds of individual low-income children and teens.
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For details, donors and volunteers can contact the Adopt-A-Family Hotline at 831-457-9834 or through email at AdoptAFamily@scvolunteercenter.org.
More opportunities to help are in the Volunteer Center’s Holiday Volunteer Guide at www.scvolunteernow.org/holiday.
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TOP PHOTO: The Adopt-a-Family program provides gifts, necessities, and grocery gift cards to participants, ensuring each family member has a gift and enough food for a holiday meal. To help, call 831-457-9834.