Every year, FACS Niagara provides more than 600 families with ongoing services and supports, serves approximately 430 children in care (monthly average), and helps prepare over 150 youth for the joys and challenges of living independently.
Gift of Hope aims to bring hope to the children, youth, and families we serve, through the holidays and beyond.
Your donation to Gift of Hope helps bring the joy, magic, and warmth of the holidays to children and families being supported by FACS. It also provides valuable learning and growth opportunities for youth, empowering them to build a foundation for long-term stability.
Thank you for your support.
How does your gift make a difference?
$25
Provides a warm holiday dinner for a youth living independently.
$500
Provides food and gifts for a family served by FACS Niagara this holiday season.
$50
Helps a child move with dignity by funding a large bag for their belongings.
$1,000
Makes summer dreams come true for one child by funding a week of overnight camp next summer.
$100
Provides emergency food support to a youth living independently.
$1,500
Pays for one youth to attend a year’s worth of life-skills training sessions to learn cooking, budgeting, healthy relationships, and responsible pet care, giving them the confidence to launch successfully into adulthood.
$300
Provides household items & gifts for a youth preparing to live independently.
$2,500
Makes postsecondary dreams come true and positions youth for long-term stability by funding a Postsecondary Education Grant.
Ways To Give
Donating New and Unwrapped Gifts and Toys
We gratefully accept donations of toys and gifts for children and youth from 0-20 years old.
Donations may be dropped off at 82 Hannover Drive in St. Catharines.
We respectfully request that all donations of toys and gifts be new and unwrapped.