Adopt A Famiy Association In Parma For Two Years

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It’s been two years ago since the Adopt a Family Association moved its operating location to our larger location at 5753 Chevrolet Blvd, Parma, Ohio, from the city of Cleveland. Adopt a Family Association has been warmly welcomed by the City of Parma because it provides services to low income families with children and aged-out foster teens with basic needs assistance. The Adopt a Family Association is also a proud member of the Parma Area Chamber of Commerce and has participated in many area events through the Chamber.

We exist as a resource for all families who are unable to provide basic needs due to socioeconomic distress affecting their families. Our vision is that all families should have a healthy home environment where they can live in harmony without fear of physical or emotional separation because they cannot feed, clothe, or take care of their children.  

It is our belief that a healthy family stems from a healthy home environment. When that healthy home environment is threatened because parents cannot adequately provide the basic needs for its members, families begin to weaken. Our ultimate objective is to provide some relief to distressed families that have fallen victim to the recent and long standing economic downturn by helping meet their children’s needs. To accomplish this objective, Adopt a Family Association developed three programs: 1) Adopt a Family for Christmas Program, 2) Family Needs Program, and 3) the Shelter Families Service Project or Program.  

Adopt a Family began in 1996 as a Christmas holiday community service project with help from a local financial institution. The Cleveland Corporate Human Resources Department employees wanted to help the growing number of families and children living in poverty in the Greater Cleveland area, one of the nation’s poorest municipalities, and throughout Northeastern and Southern Ohio during the holiday season.   

Since the program’s inception in 1996, more than 2000 families and over 5900 children have received services through the Adopt a Family for Christmas Program. We also developed another initiative in 2007 known as the Family Needs Program after being awarded a 501(c)(3) nonprofit status, giving the organization an opportunity to provide basic needs assistance throughout the year.  

With the support from one of our partners, Parma Area Family Collaborative, we work together and our volunteers identify what is needed by the family and what is in our inventory. If the requested necessary items are not in our inventory, the Association will purchase those items from local retailers at a discounted rate to the organization and make arrangements for the item to either be delivered to the family or have the family pick up the items from our facility. The children living in this country and especially in our community should have a bed to sleep on and not on a cold floor. 

The Adopt a Family Association would like to express its sincere gratitude to the residents of Parma for their in-kind donations of clothing, household items, and furniture. We need your continued support and if you care to donate slightly used, clean furniture items, or household items, please contact us at 440-882-6600. Your donations go directly to needy families in our community.