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.
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Macomb county provides

• Vouchers for
• coats
• scarves
• mittens

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Oakland County Program

• Fund-raisers Provide
• Food
• Clothing
• Supplies

• TC Credit Union Provides
• Backpacks
• Pencils

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• 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

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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
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Presentation created by Heather McMaster