1. Like Home for the Holidays
The Space Coast chapter of GE
Volunteers made the Holidays special
for Children’s Home Society and
Hacienda Girl’s Ranch. The residence is
a home for girls that have been placed
in protective care as result of being
removed from their homes due to
abuse, neglect or abandonment.

2. Toy Drive
We received 40 ‘Wish Lists’ from Children’s
Home Society for local foster kids. We
decorated a Christmas tree in our cafeteria with
the wish lists. Employees selected a child’s wish
list and brought in their gifts

3. Hacienda Girl’s Ranch
We met at Hacienda Girls Ranch before
Thanksgiving to make it feel more like home for
the girls. We hung Christmas lights on two of
the buildings and cooked sides and desserts for
their Thanksgiving meal.

4. Celeste created the wish list
decorations
Celeste cre
ated the wish list decorations

5. We decorated the Wish List Tree

6. Candy Canes

7. Collecting the gifts

8. Home-Cooking for Thanksgiving

9. Happy Cooks!

10. Pies!

11. Spreading the Light of the Season

13. How many volunteers does it take to
hang a light bulb?

14. Children’s Home SocietyBrevard Division History
1902: Children's Home Society of Florida was founded in
Jacksonville, amidst a nationwide effort to find safe homes and
loving families for children orphaned by industrial and farm
accidents and epidemics such as tuberculosis.
1920: CHS began expanding
to meet the needs of Florida's
growing population, opening its
first division office in
Pensacola. Eleven more
divisions were established over
the next 80 years.
1991: Brevard Division was
established

15. Children’s Home SocietyBrevard Division Programs
• Protective supervision to ensure the safety of children who have
been removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect
• Safe shelter for abused or neglected teen girls at the Hacienda Girls
Ranch
• Transitional living home to provide young women ages 18 and over,
who have recently aged out of the foster care system or who are
homeless, with a safe, affordable place to live as they begin their
adult lives.
• Healthy Start, to assist pregnant women with healthy birth
outcomes and help new mothers learn proper care for their infants
• Mental and behavioral health care services for children and their
families

16. What would grant funds be used for?
• Create an internal dry pantry to address emergency food
and essential needs for client families
• Build an outdoor meditation area that would serve as a
haven for the girls residing on campus
• Add an additional staff member which would allow CHS to
expand the Independent Living Program to leverage and
administer community support (to coordinate volunteer
services such as mentoring, transportation, community
involvement, enrichment classes, personal finance classes,
nutrition training)
• Purchase maintenance equipment to maintain property,
providing a safe and pleasing environment for the kids

17. GE Volunteers - Making a Holiday
Difference for Brevard County’s
Most Vulnerable Children!

18. Continued Support
GE Volunteers hope to serve Children’s Home
Society and Hacienda Girl’s Ranch for many
more years.
• Yearly Holiday Toy drive
• Yearly School Supply Drive
• Landscaping and maintenance as needed
• Serve at fund raising functions
• Cooking!