Adopt a Family at Ozone House

Families in need of “adoption” around the holidays are varied in composition and reason for the need. Times are tight and the current economic situation hits most of our Ozone families extra hard.

Many of our clients are young parents of infants &/or toddlers, struggling to continue their education while maintaining housing and basic household needs. Others are not doing as well, and are dealing with homelessness. These youth come to Ozone House for counseling and help building their independent living skills.

Still others are families with a teen who come to Ozone House for counseling. Some of these folks are facing economic challenges due to job layoffs, death or illness of a family member, mental health or substance abuse of one parent in the household, domestic violence that causes the family to separate, and homelessness.

Whatever the reasons for the economic struggle, the stress and expectations of the winter holidays pose a very difficult and seemingly insurmountable challenge to some of the families in situations described above.

When you Adopt a Family at Ozone House, you'll have the opportunity to provide basic needs support in the form of warm clothing, household essentials and other basic needs supplies for a family in your community. You also will have the opportunity to provide our families with some rarely received “wants” from their holiday wish lists. We hope you'll have fun with this and know that you are really making a difference!

For more information, please contact:

Karyn Boyce at (734) 662-2265 or kboyce@ozonehouse.org.

Andrew Swain, Peer Educator
with David Plouffe, Barack Obama's Campaign Manager