My students need a backpack full of the basic supplies needed for the school year- including a backpack, pencils, markers, colored pencils, notebooks, folders, erasers and glue sticks.
$597 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My students attend a large urban bilingual K-8 school, with a ninety-four percent poverty rate, twenty-four percent special education population and fifty-seven percent English Language Learners. We average 15-20 students per year that are identified as Homeless- and those are just the ones we know.
Despite these statistics, our school is exceeding expectations on the state report card and have maintained a ninety-five percent attendance rate for more than five years straight.
We get high marks on our climate ratings by staff, students and families due to our trauma-sensitive focus, ability to go above and beyond in meeting our students and families' basic needs, and use of strategies to help students cope.
My Project
As the school social worker, I am the school liaison for our homeless program. Last school year, I was able to get laundry detergent, hygiene kits and feminine hygiene products through a DonorsChoose project.
This project is to start where I left off- getting the students who are identified as homeless what they need to be successful in school.
Of course, I am referring to school supplies!
We are required (as a public school) to provide students identified under McKinney-Vento (the Homeless Act) with basic school supplies, which can get expensive depending on the number identified every year. This project will get a backpack filled with all of the needed basic supplies- notebooks, folders, pencil pouch, pencils, erasers, markers, colored pencils and glue sticks to our first 10 identified students for the school year. This will help our students complete learning tasks despite the obstacle of homelessness.
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