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Title: Schools help to dress and feed kids they teach


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Schools help to dress and feed kids they teach
  • Health care, legal aid also provided

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Detroit and many other suburban schools are
helping children and families meet basic needs.
3
Macomb county provides
  • Vouchers for
  • coats
  • scarves
  • mittens

4
Oakland County Program
  • Fund-raisers Provide
  • Food
  • Clothing
  • Supplies
  • TC Credit Union Provides
  • Backpacks
  • Pencils

5
  • Waterford does fund-raisers for field trips for
    the needy students
  • 11 million spent on after-school and emergency
    assistance programs in 66 Detroit schools last
    year

6
Student Assistance Services Inc. (SASI)
  • Spends 50,000 a year on
  • Clothing
  • Eyeglasses
  • Hearing aid repairs

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SASI also gives
  • 50 per child to certain stores
  • To neediest families
  • Families whose things were destroyed by fire
  • Families who have been evicted
  • Screens the families to make sure neediest get
    the help

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Reasons Schools Are Helping
  • Children do not come to school ready to learn
  • Jobless rate is increasing in Michigan
  • 379,000 Michiganders unemployed in September

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The Schools Say
  • They do not want people to loose their children
    because they cannot provide some things
  • These children come out of some serious
    situations

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Credits
www.freep.com/news/education/fam11_20031111.htm
For more news from the Detroit Free Press visit
www.freep.com
Presentation created by Heather McMaster
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