Give Kids Safe Shelter, Inc. is an organization of volunteers dedicated to helping the children of the Osceola County community. The non-profit organization was founded in response to the needs of our children. The businesses and local community with interests in Osceola County have banded together to help The major focus of Give Kids Safe Shelter is to provide support for the organizations shown on the right side of this page under "Whom We Support". 
If you are interested in becoming a volunteer with If you are interested in becoming a volunteer with any of our agencies, please click on the agency logo on this page to contact that agency directly. Guardian AD Litem Receives Funds from
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Give Kids Safe Shelter We'd like to thank everyone for donating to our "Be an Angel Program" in December 2011. Thanks to your generous donations, over 200 children in need received gifts during the holiday season. We will repeat the program in 2012, please click below for information on how you can participate. If you are a retailer who might be interested or if you have a suggestion for a retailer we might contact, please e-mail GKSS “Be An Angel” Program Coordinator Valerie Sewell. Click for information on our
Over 1200 Osceola County school children are classified as "homeless", meaning they are not living in stable, sustainable housing. Many are living in hotels and motels along U.S. Hwy 192. In June 2010, more than 40 non profit, faith based and governmental agencies saw and served over 1,000 people in need. This one day event enabled 77 children and their family to gain entry back into typical housing accommodations. In other cases, evictions were stopped and utility services maintained. No family left without food. One mother of 3 small children, living in a tent, moved into an apartment, had a job and the children in day care and pre-school within a few days following the event.
All told, it was a successful event but it was just the first step...as there is much more to do. Following this event, Give Kids Safe Shelter, a volunteer 501(c)3 organization that for 11 years has supported 6 local children's agencies, was asked to lead the movement to focus on this issue facing so many in our community. See our goal and plan below .
How you can help: * Make a donation to Give Kids Safe Shelter's Project 192 Outreach fund - click here and reference "Project 192 Outreach" in the note section of your donation.
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Project 192 Outreach Partners include: Businesses, chambers of commerce, local churches and non profits, civic groups, social service providers, law enforcement, the local school district, utility & transportation companies, state and local government agencies and concerned citizens.
Project 192 Outreach's Goal is: To facilitate the movement of families residing in U.S. Hwy 192 hotels and motels, tents, RVs and cars to suitable and sustainable housing AND the return of the use of the tourism related accommodations back to their intended use.
Project 192 Outreach's Plan includes: 1 - Identifying the school bus stops located at non residential areas along U.S. Hwy 192 and working to eliminate them, one stop at a time, by outplacement of children/families from the hotels and motels back to housing that is sustainable.
2 - Holding additional “target” Outreach events for 200 to 300 “in need” based on geographical location.
3 - Working with hotel/motel owners who presently house families and eliminating the revolving door syndrome that returns kids and families to non residential facilities.
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Give Kids Safe Shelter, Inc.
P.O. Box 420596
Kissimmee, FL 34742-0596