Entrepreneurs and CCH launch school supplies drive
The Entrepreneurs Foundation of Hawaii is again partnering with Catholic Charities Hawaii to collect backpacks and school supplies for disadvantaged children. The cost of school supplies can be a major barrier to the financial well-being of a young family. Children in these families face many challenges in school. Help give these children a good start in the 2010-2011 school year by sending them back to school with the backpacks and supplies they need to succeed.
Supplies will be collected for 226 disadvantaged children in the following programs:
> Comprehensive Counseling & Support Services – provides counseling, crisis intervention, and other services to families with a history of child abuse and neglect
> Enhanced Healthy Start – provides home visiting and support services through a team approach that works with biological families as well as foster parents to promote and enhance healthy child development, increase healthy family functioning, and decrease the risk factors for child abuse and neglect
> Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children – monitors and ensures safe and stable placement of children in foster or relative care across state lines
> Housing Placement Program – provides one-time emergency financial assistance for families at risk of homelessness
> Case Management – provides advocacy, case management, counseling, and assessment of needs for low-income families
This year additional supplies will be collected for 50 underserved children in the Learning for a Lifetime program at Palama Settlement. Learning for a Lifetime provides homework help and other educational activities for children who have nowhere else to go after school.
Suggested donations include:
- Backpacks for grades K-12
- Thick and thin colored markers
- Colored pencils
- Crayons (24/box)
- #2 pencils
- Erasers
- Pencil boxes
- Scissors
- Composition books (wide- and college-ruled)
- Rulers
- Glue and glue sticks
- 1” and 1-1/2” three-ring binders
- Folder paper (wide- and college-ruled)
- Folders (portfolios with pockets)
- Black, blue, and red ballpoint pens
- Sharpie pens (black – fine and extra-fine point)
- Highlighters
- Compasses
- Protractors
- Facial tissues
- Paper towels
- Hand soap and sanitizer
Learning for a Lifetime also provides small rewards to kids in their program who have done well, treated others nicely, made good choices, or showed improvement in any way. They would appreciate donations of:
- Snacks
- Juice boxes
- Simple toys like bubbles, jacks, and stickers
- Mechanical pencils
- Coloring books
Cash donations are also welcome. Checks may be made payable to Catholic Charities Hawaii, or contributions can be made on the CCH website, http://www.CatholicCharitiesHawaii.org – please include a note that the donation is for the School Supplies Drive.
Contact Leigh-Ann Miyasato, leighann@efhawaii.org or (808) 546-2288, to participate in the Backpack & School Supplies Drive. Donations are needed by Friday, July 16 to assemble the supplies for the children before the school year begins.
