Local agencies work together to ensure the needs of everyone in our community are met over the holiday season. Several organizations provide holiday support to residents in the Foothills region. Please contact them for details on how to donate, what you can give or how you can volunteer. Please donate early!

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Holiday Support Programs
Where to Donate?
Oilfields Food Bank: 403-612-1291
Christmas Meal Hampers. Donations of food and cash are gratefully accepted.Okotoks Food Bank: 403-651-6629
Christmas Meal Hampers. Donations of food and cash are gratefully accepted. You may also choose to Adopt-a-Family.
Baby It’s Cold Outside: 403-660-3648
Christmas Meal Hampers to nominated residents. Donations of food and cash.The Salvation Army: 403-652-2195
Christmas Meal Hampers. Toys & gifts for children (18 and under). Donations of new, unwrapped toys and gift cards are gratefully accepted. Financial donations welcome. Volunteers needed!Seniors Secret Service: 403-257-8339
Supporting isolated seniors throughout the Foothills. Donations of cash or gift cards.Magic of Christmas: 403-921-0588/403-803-3085
Christmas cheer and gifts to referred residents. Donations of cash and gift cards are appreciated or donate new, unwrapped toys at:OKOTOKS: ATB, Fountain Tire, Village Lane Dental, Monkey Mountain, Papillon Medical Clinic, Fisher Crescent Retail, White Bull.
HIGH RIVER: Dance Tech, Ward Tires
BLACK DIAMOND: ATB, Focus Fitness, Western Financial
My City Care: mycitycareoko@myvictory.ca
Toys & gifts for children, teens & parents. Drop off a new unwrapped toy or stocking stuffer at one of these drop-off locations: Trident Auto Wash, Momentum Physical Therapy, Eyes 360, Alberta Dance Academy, Sector Six Supplements, The Park, Bliss, McFarlane Agencies, Loop Okotoks, McMan Family Resource Network, Thrive Family Chiropractic, Mainstreet Market.
Volunteers Needed!
Okotoks Family Resource Centre: 403-995-2626 E: familyresources@okotoks.ca
Help residents facing financial challenges the other 364 days of the year. Donations will fund emergency gas and grocery cards.Rowan House Emergency Shelter: 403-336-6405
Help bring holiday joy to families affected by domestic abuse. Donate at www.rowanhouse.ca or contact Kaylee at: housing@rowanhouse.ca.High River FCSS: 403-652-8620
Donations of gifts, gift cards and cashfor single/senior adults.Christmas 2020
New, unwrapped gifts for children 18 and under in the Foothills can be dropped at the following locations *teen gifts, gift cards and lego are always in short supply
Please donate early (by Dec 4th preferred) to allow agencies time to inventory and distribute gifts
Salvation Army
BLACK DIAMOND: Pharma save
BLACKIE: TraXside Studios
DE WINTON: Heritage Point Fire Station
HIGH RIVER: Boston Pizza, Calgary Co-op, Canadian Tire, CIBC, Coco Lux Beauty Bar Spa & Tanning, High Country Chevrolet Buick GMC Ltd, Dairy Queen, Home Hardware Building Centre, High River Library, Pet Valu, Bob Snodgrass Recreation Complex, No Frills, Shoppers Drug Mart, Scotiabank, Sobeys High River, Western Financial Group
OKOTOKS: CIR Realty Okotoks, Okotoks Today (Western Wheel), Okotoks Family Resource Centre
TURNER VALLEY: Sheep River Library
Magic of Christmas
OKOTOKS: ATB, Fountain Tire, Village Lane Dental, Monkey Mountain, Papillon Medical Clinic, Fisher Crescent Retail, White Bull
HIGH RIVER: Dance Tech, Ward Tires
BLACK DIAMOND: ATB, Focus Fitness, Western Financial
My City Care Shop of Wonders
OKOTOKS: Trident Auto Wash, Momentum Physical Therapy, Eyes 360, Alberta Dance Academy, Sector Six Supplements, The Park, Bliss, McFarlane Agencies, Loop Okotoks, McMan Family Resource Network, Thrive Family Chiropractic, Mainstreet Market
Christmas Support Programs
If you need help to get through the holiday season, please contact one of these local agencies for support.
Assistance is available for residents of Black Diamond, Turner Valley, High River, Okotoks and Foothills County.
Families can choose to register with one of the following services:
Christmas Food Hampers:
Contact your nearest foodbank
Oilfields Food Bank, Register at: www.oilfieldsfoodbank.com, 403-612-1291
Okotoks Food Bank, 403-651-6629
The Salvation Army Foothills County Ministries, 403-652-2195
Baby it’s Cold Outside, 403-660-3648
Toys and Gifts:
The Salvation Army Foothills Community Ministries
(Children 18 & under), 403-652-2195
My City Care, 403-606-6812
Register at: myvictory.ca/shopofwonders
Baby it’s Cold Outside, 403-660-3648
Emergency Assistance Program
The Okotoks Family Resource Centre recognizes that families may need help the other 364 days of the year, and runs programs to subsidize recreation fees, provide emergency gas or grocery cards, and help with back to school supplies. Consider making a tax-deductible donation to help fund these programs.