Each season we provide holiday meals and Christmas gifts for youth and families carrying a hard stretch.
This holiday season
Signups are open now until November 25.
Get in touch to sign up.
What seasonal support is
Mentoring sits at the heart of our work. Seasonal support makes sure the holidays are covered too.
A meal for the table and gifts to open, given in a way that brings some hope and joy back into the holidays. That is the whole of it, and it is the one part of our work that runs on a calendar rather than on a relationship alone.
It sits alongside mentoring and practical support, and it’s offered the same way: with dignity and genuine care.
We walk alongside people. We don’t do things for them.
See everything we doOur mission: Help, hope, and healing for our community through practical service and genuine care.
A registered 501(c)(3) public charity. Gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
What we provide
Holiday meals and Christmas gifts. What each one looks like shifts a little from season to season, so here is the honest shape of both.
A holiday meal for the table, so the day isn’t one more thing to get through.
Christmas gifts for the children in your family.
Seasonal windows
Signups for seasonal support follow the calendar, and the dates move from year to year. Giving is open all year. Here is the shape of a season, and what each part means depending on why you’re here.
Signups close November 25. Get in touch to sign up.
See how to sign upWho this is for
Seasonal support is for youth, young adults, and families in the middle of a hard stretch, whether the holidays are the hard part or just the latest thing in a long year. You don’t need the right words, and you don’t need a plan before you get in touch.
If you’re in a mentoring relationship, or we helped with something practical earlier in the year, you’re already known here. Just say the word.
You don’t have to have asked us for anything before, and you don’t have to be in crisis. A first conversation is enough.
If you know a family who could use a hand this season, you can ask on their behalf.
Big family or small, new to us or not, it’s fine to ask.
We don’t publish rules about who counts as needing help. If your family could use it, ask.
How to sign up
Three steps, none of them complicated.
Email, call, or send a message from our contact page and choose “Seasonal support” as the topic.
In your own words: who’s in your household and anything you’d like us to know.
We’ll let you know what happens next. If something else we do fits better, we’ll point you to it.
Call
(513) 537-4951Hours
Mon–Fri, 9:00am–5:00pm
If someone is in immediate danger, call 911. For a mental health crisis, call or text 988.
Let us know whether the family knows you’re getting in touch, and how best to reach them.
Christmas assistance
If you’d like to ask for Christmas gifts for your children, send us this request. It goes straight to our team.
Our team will reply. We’ll be in touch about what we can do this season, and what comes next.
Open until November 25. That’s the last day to send a request for this holiday season.
Rather talk it through? Call (513) 537-4951, Mon–Fri, 9:00am–5:00pm.
Youth, young adults, and families in a hard season. Some are already in a mentoring relationship with us, some we helped with something practical earlier in the year, and some we’re meeting for the first time.
This holiday season, signups are open now until November 25. Get in touch to sign up. We’re in the office Mon–Fri, 9:00am–5:00pm. Giving is open all year.
What we can provide varies from season to season, so it’s best to ask us about this year.
They support every part of our work, holiday meals and gifts included. If you’d like yours to go toward the holidays, let us know when you give. Gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Yes. Monthly giving helps carry the seasonal work, and one-time gifts help just as much. Both go to the same campaign, which is open all year.
Yes, those are welcome. What’s needed changes each season, so ask us first.
The same way volunteers do. Businesses come alongside this work through the whole year, not only at the holidays, and we’ll talk through what makes sense for you.
How to give or help
A season costs something before it begins. Both of these are how it gets paid for: in money, and in people.
Giving goes through our Givebutter campaign, which is open all year and supports mentoring and the practical help alongside it, including seasonal support. Monthly giving helps carry the holidays too.
Gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Whether you want to give your time or sponsor part of what a season needs, it starts the same way. Volunteers and local businesses both come alongside this work, and we’ll talk through what fits.
Food and gifts are welcome as well. What’s needed, and where to bring it, changes each season, so ask us first and we’ll tell you what would actually help rather than have you guess.
