Santa’s Helpers, Inc. is a 100% volunteer-based non-profit organization serving St. Louis’s under-resourced and seriously ill children and their families since 1968. Santa’s Helpers touches the lives of over 3,000 children and their families every holiday season by purchasing, wrapping and delivering gifts for Christmas and Hanukkah to deserving children whose names are provided by local schools and social service agencies.
Family Submission Criteria:
- All social workers/referring agencies must register at santashelpersstl.com using your work email. Referrals will not be accepted from private email accounts. You will receive an email confirming your submission and another email when you applications is accepted or rejected. You may begin referring families after you receive your acceptance email
- New or unfamiliar organizations and individuals may receive a phone call before being accepted as one of our vetted referrers.
- Please list all persons on the referral form residing in the home, including all adults. Only list clothing sizes if the child, children, or teen is in need of clothing.
- To qualify for Santa’s Helpers, families must be in need of help and not able to provide gifts for the children. Families should also be under the federal guidelines for poverty or be part of the working poor.
- Please include a detailed rationale for the family being referred. Provide information of any special circumstances the family is experiencing. Low income and Covid are not valid reasons for us to accept a family into Santa’s Helpers.
- There is a 2 year limit for families to receive gifts from Santa’s Helpers.
Every Social Worker or Referral Agent must be registered in order to refer families to Santas Helpers Stl. The registration process consists of 2 parts. You can find the registration screen by going to User Login and then clicking on Register.
Registration
- Fill out the user registration form in its entirety, please do not leave items blank as that may lead to delayed approval.
- We do not accept email addresses that are not associated with an organization (@gmail.com, @hotmail.com, @yahoo.com as an example are not accepted).
- Please ensure that there is a valid phone number for us to contact you.
- Once you have completed the registration form and clicked on submit, a Santas Helpers Board Member will accept/reject or contact you if further information is needed.
** For new or unfamiliar organizations which are registering for the first time, please expect a phone call for further information about your organizations charter.
Family Referral Process
Each year around October, we open our registration to St Louis Local Schools and Social Service Agencies. In an effort to meet the needs of the families that are being serviced, we have automated the referral process through our website which has helped speed up the process for the submission and approval. The referral process steps below are a guide to help those Agencies complete the registration form and provide a user interface to check the status of those referrals. The following section provides details around how to login, create/complete the referral form and also use the portal to check the status for all of your referrals.