Want To Know How To Adopt a Family?
Our adoption process is easy to understand.
- Provide us by e-mail or phone the size family you wish to adopt and your fax number.
- We will send you a fax of the chosen family’s wish-list.
- Bring wrapped presents or to be wrapped gifts to our gift wrap party.
Dec. 7th @ Wilbur Avenue Elementary School - Unable to attend?
E-mail us or plan to make it to the alternate gift drop off location. Dec. 6th. @ Plaza Park, Irvine
We have families provided to us by a family services agency that have all filled out holiday wish lists. We are looking for some nice folks to adopt these families and fill their wishlists. Families range from a single mom with a single child to a mom with six or seven kids.
If you or your parents/family members/office are interested in taking any number of families please contact via email or phone call and we will then arrange a family to be adopted! Please be ready to provide us with your fax number if you have one.
Also, we have a holiday stocking program. We will be filling about 3000 holiday stockings to be delivered to foster care centers all over California and in New Orleans. Click on the stocking on the top of any page in the Friends and Helpers website.
We will be having a huge wrapping party at Wilbur elementary on Dec. 7th to get all the gifts wrapped, stockings stuffed, boxed, and ready to be shipped to the families they belong to. Catered by the In n Out truck
The 17th Annual Friends and Helpers Holiday Party! will be held at
Sunday, December 7th from 11:00am-6:00pm
Wilbur Avenue Elementary School
5213 Crebs Avenue, Tarzana, CA 91356
on Wells Drive between Reseda and Vanalden
Unable to attend the wrapping party? Email us to make other arrangements.
We have coordinated with Orange County residents to come up with another opportunity to dropoff wrapped gifts for this year’s families. If you have a chance to make it to the Orange County Dropoff, please come to the alternate dropoff location on Saturday December 6, 2008 anytime between 10:00am - 1:00pm.
Alternate Dropoff Location @ Orange County
Saturday, December 6th from 10:00am-1:00pm.
Plaza Park, Irvine
610 Paseo Westpark 92606
Feel that holiday spirit.
17th Annual Holiday Gift Drive
Happy Holidays! The season of giving has come upon us again. This is the chance to help those in our community that are survivors of domestic abuse. Many of these survivors are forced to leave their homes without any money or a place to stay, only the clothes that are on their backs. This holiday season we can make sure that these less fortunate souls know they don’t have to do this alone. We can help to put smiles on the faces of women and children who need it most! Don’t forget to save the date for our annual wrapping party.
December 7th from 11am-6pm at Wilbur Elementary, details to follow. Thank you! We have a list of over 500 families and 1000 teens in Los Angeles, as well as 1000 teens in Orange County and New Orleans that will receive stockings.
With the number of people we help each year growing, we thank you so much for your support and generosity. We will get together and try to give back to those who are in need. With just a little help from you, we can make these women and children have a holiday season that is filled with love and happiness.
We cordially invite you to attend The 17th Annual Friends and Helpers Holiday Party! Sunday, December 7th from 11am-6pm
Wilbur Avenue Elementary School
5213 Crebs Avenue, Tarzana, CA 91356
on Wells Drive between Reseda and Vanalden
Please bring the gifts for your adopted families wrapped and ready to go on the truck or you can wrap them with us. We will have wrapping supplies or you can bring your own. (We always need more!) It?s a great day for the whole family. We will have our elves doing cookie decorating and art projects. Great
food all day with ice cream from Donny Don’s and burgers from In n Out. There will be people who need help wrapping, and it’s just so much fun for everyone. There is still time to adopt a family, a
sponsor, a stocking, but don’t wait, give us a call at 818-757-1905 or email us at info@friendsandhelpers.org. We will be having our amazing raffle again this year, which you won’t want to miss!
Sincerely,
F&H
While on our website, there are different ways that you can help.
- Find all the information you need about the donation process. click here
- Make a cash donation on the website. click here
- We also hope that you can
fell A Friend about our website.
Happy Holidays!
HOLIDAYS ARE HERE!
Our list of families for adoption has arrived and we need your support right away!
Please contact us if you are interested in adopting a family or click on the link above to make a donation or adopt a stocking. Write to us at info@friendsandhelpers.org for any questions regarding adopting a family and help us fill those stockings!!!
We are currently getting underway with our Holiday program. We’re in the process of recieving families that have filled out holiday wishlists and it is up to us to find people to adopt these families to make their holiday wishes come true. If you are interested in adopting a family please contact us at info@friendsandhelpers.org for more info.
We also have thousands of stockings that we need to stuff with Target or Toys R’ Us gift cards, candy, toys, CD’s, and DVD’s for several foster care agencies all over California and in New Orleans as well. If you check the link on the top right corner of our homepage it will direct you to our Adopt-a-Stocking donation link.
For any interested volunteers, we will be getting together on Dec. 7th at Wilbur Elementarty School to have our giant wrapping party. We’ll be putting together all the gifts for the adopted families and stuffing all the stockings to get them ready to be delivered to the families. Feel free to bring the whole family. The In n’ Out truck will be there along with an ice cream sundae bar. The day is a lot of fun and its all for a good cause so come and help make a difference in these families lives this holiday season!
About Friends and Helpers
Friends and Helpers was started in 1992 in Southern California. Our Founder herself learned during her first marriage that being abused robs you of self-esteem, and often those closest to you don’t have any idea what you are experiencing. There are no glamorous events or celebrity-attended dinners to raise money for those abused. Survivors of abuse are often forgotten and they are left alone to somehow tear themselves out of that situation without help.
Abuse can strike anyone and anywhere; spouses, parents, children and teens can fall victim to abuse. When the survivors do get brave enough to finally leave their abusive situation, many flee with their kids and the clothes on their backs to counseling centers and shelters. We work with many of the centers and help provide love and support for those people and help them remember that they DESERVE to be loved. They are provided with a safe place to stay, clothes, food, love and support to help get them back on their feet.
That first year we started with providing a happy Christmas and Chanukah for mothers and their children who had no money, and no way of getting necessities, let alone gifts for their children. We had a small Christmas tree in our home and invited all our friends over to help us. On the tree we placed small cards with the exact gifts that those families wanted, provided to us by a counseling center. Each of us picked a family and immediately went shopping for the families. When we returned home, everyone wrapped their gifts and got them ready to be delivered to the center. The counseling center made it possible for the mothers to pick up the gifts, and on Christmas morning, or for Chanukah, their children smiled as they opened gifts from Santa or from their own moms or dads. Our Holiday program is still our biggest event of the year.
Since that day, we’ve provided a Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah for thousands of families!
We’ve also added many new programs including a Back-To-School program to help underprivileged kids, a teen support program, a Mother’s Day program, and an Easter program. In addition we also support various churches and synagogues, and we do our best to respond to individual requests throughout the year.
Charity of the Month: Friends and Helpers
Friends and Helpers is a great charity founded in 1999, who provides relief for abused woman
and children. Founded by Melissa and Kevin (of KROQ’s Kevin and Bean Show), F&H is able to bring celebrity power to good use. This year Flea (from the Red Hot Chili Peppers) was on the radio promoting their Back to School Program. The year before Chester and Mike from Linkin Park brought attention to this grass roots charity by handing out backpacks to children still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
Tammy, Megan and Lindsey Knickerbocker joined their Holiday Program by participating in their Adopt-a-family event. With over 10,000 people in their program, volunteers provide each family with holiday cheer. Each October the families in the program compose their “wish list” (yes, sometimes kids ask for XBOX 360, but I’ll never forget the 9 year old who asked for “ham and turkey” and a toothbrush). You can see the Knickerbockers at the Holiday Gift Wrapping event that just took place.
Friends and Helpers is a tool so that the generosity of others can directly benefit those in need. One hundred percent (100%) of the money and gifts donated go directly to those who need it.
The Founders of the organization pay for all overhead costs, and the volunteers donate countless hours of service to ensure every dollar goes directly to the families and teens that
need it.
F & H supports counseling, promote job training and encourages education. The strength that they need to change their lives comes from self-esteem, positive reinforcement and the support of you and me. You, too, can make a difference by visiting www.friendsandhelpers.org and make a donation today.
