Adopt a Family

We are committed to helping families through parenting education and support services, and by providing families with year-round resources and donations from the community. Take a look at our sponsoring programs below for more information on ways that you and your families, businesses, and agencies can help.

Sponsor a family year-round

Often, families need help throughout the year with feeding, clothing, and providing small items to their children, such as birthday gifts, Easter baskets, Halloween costumes, as well as safe, fun, family experiences!

YOU can help by donating new or gently used children’s clothing, toys, books and games! We will collect the items and distribute them to the families in our programs, based on their needs.

You might also consider donating gift certificates to safe, family activities, such as UH games, miniature golf, the movies, waterpark, iTrampoline, Hawaii Raceway, etc., or creating baskets for a picnic in the park or a day at the beach, and including normal items needed such as sunscreen, snacks, arm floaties, or other blow-up beach or park toys.

All of these items will promote safe, positive, fun activities that families can do together, year-round, in our beautiful islands!

For questions, or to donate items, please contact our Executive Director at:

Joshua Gaoteote, joshua@hawaiiparents.org, or (808) 235-0255

Sponsor a family for Christmas

Interested in spreading holiday cheer and making sure that one of our local families has an AMAZING Christmas and New Year? Consider adopting a family this holiday season!

Here’s the process:

1️⃣ Complete the sign up form with your contact information

Sign up

2️⃣ Early December, we will collect all of the information from our families that want to be adopted

3️⃣ We will try to match you to the family of your choice

4️⃣ You can provide in-kind donations to that family for Christmas/New Year

5️⃣ You will receive a receipt for your donation, and if the family agrees, a photo of the family with the gifts donated

Frequent questions

Why this program?

  • The goal of this program is to help families provide Christmas gifts or experiences for their children, and to let families know that both PARENTS, Inc., and members of the community, care for them and that they are not alone.

What sort of gifts/in-kind donations can I provide?

  • Gifts requested by the parents and their children typically reflect needs and smaller wants, rather than large, expensive items. Families often request items such as clothing, shoes, or other essential items, as well as things like Christmas trees or holiday meals.

Can I offer tickets for a game or an event?

  • Of course! Experiences also make great gifts! These include attending an event together, such as a UH game, or tickets to an activity, such as miniature golf. At each type of event, families are able to bond with one another by talking, laughing, and playing. In this way, you are promoting healthy, positive interactions between family members, and taking the focus away from the materialism that often surrounds holidays such as Christmas.

Can I stay anonymous?

  • You are welcome to forge bounds with that family, or stay anonymous.