Kingfisher Community Collaborative, and the Kingfisher Police Department and its newly-formed auxiliary are teaming up to ensure no county child is left out this holiday season.

The collaborative is the new sponsor of Santa’s Toy-land, a more than 30-year-old all-volunteer project unique to Kingfisher County, which provides gifts to families in financial crisis.

The police department and its women’s auxiliary is sponsoring a new program called Christmas with Cops, in which select children will be taken on a squad car shopping spree to buy presents for their family and then returned to the police station for a gift-wrapping party.

Police Chief Dennis Baker and his wife Lora, a member of the auxiliary, met with Kingfisher Community Collaborative at its Monday meeting to discuss how the groups can work together to ensure that services are not duplicated and as many children and families as possible can be served.

For the first time in its decades-long history, Santa’s Toyland will be conducted outside the auspices of the Kingfisher County Department of Human Services.

The program solicits donations to buy a selection of gifts for each of its qualifying children and then invites parents for a day of “shopping” to select presents to take home and wrap for each of their children.

Organizations, individuals, businesses and churches also will be able to “adopt” entire families to provide gift items, clothing and even holiday food, if they choose.

While Christmas with Cops and Santa’s Toyland will have separate applications, the two programs will consult with each other to make sure their services are not duplicated to the same children or families.

Applications for Toy-land will be available beginning next week at city hall, DHS and online on the Kingfisher Community Collaborative Facebook Page.

Applications must be returned by Dec. 6 and Toyland shopping day will be Wednesday, Dec. 18, at the Kingfisher County Fairgrounds Exhibit Building.

Families must meet an income guideline, based on their size, to qualify for Toyland participation.

Families applying are asked to attach proof of income, such as pay stubs or a letter from employers, for the previous 60 days, organizers said.

Familes can apply for Christmas With Cops by completing an application available now at the police department as well as on the KPD Facebook Page.

The deadline to apply is Nov. 29 and the shopping date, when qualifying children will be paired with a police officer and auxiliary volunteer, is Dec. 14.

Both Toyland and Christmas With Cops are entirely organized on volunteer time and are dependent on community contributions.

The police department or city hall can be contacted for more information.