Giving Hope to a Family this holiday

Human Service’s, Giving Hope Holiday Program (formerly known as Adopt -A- Family/Senior)  is back for its 14th year! Last year, with your help, we raised over $60,000 in gift items and contributions to help 688 family members and seniors during the holidays, as well as 36 seniors’ pet companions. Other families and seniors in crisis were helped throughout the year. Please join us again as we work to make the Giving Hope Holiday Program more successful in 2013.

Please see flyer attached

Donations and holiday gifts from a personalized wish list will be accepted until Thursday, December 12th for the holiday fundraiser and all year for the Giving Hope Program. Each sponsor will receive a thank you letter for tax purposes in January.

The families and seniors who will receive assistance are currently being served by the Family Resource Center, the Youth and Family Counseling Center, Aging and Family Services, and Life Elder Care.

The Giving Hope Fund allows our social workers, nurses and counselors resources they can draw upon to assist families and individuals in crisis throughout the year. In the last year funds were used for the following:

• Placing a homeless family into a hotel while a care manager negotiates a space in a shelter for them.
• Providing a grocery gift card to a family in which the father or mother has recently lost their job or a senior that cannot afford food for the month.
• Providing transportation vouchers to a mother and child who need to go to the hospital.
• Helping seniors keep their utilities on during the winter and buy necessary medications, food, or health care equipment such as a walker.

Please post attached flier in your area.

Thank you for your generosity!!!

Monica Dominguez

Human Services Department

3300 Capitol Avenue Building B

Fremont, CA, 94538

Phone: 510.574.2057

Email: mdominguez@fremont.gov