On November 8, 2018, local leaders gathered together to celebrate the recent successes of CIS Wayne County and to consider how we might work to make Wayne County an even better place for students to learn and grow. Thanks to all who attended!
Thanks to the generous donations from LifeSpring Church, CIS Wayne County was able to provide Thanksgiving meals to 171 Wayne County families! Here’s a story showing the impact these boxes have on our families: “One of my families was overly excited to receive a Thanksgiving box and voucher. The mother works extremely hard to take…
“A team of 20 volunteers meets monthly at First English Lutheran Church to assemble bags of food for Wayne County elementary students. We assemble and deliver food bags to 400 children in all 5 Wayne County school corporations. In addition to the individual food bags, boxes of snacks are distributed to the secondary schools in…
“‘Lucy’ was in desperate need of a new pair of shoes. She came to me and asked if I could help! I told Lucy yes I would love to get you some shoes, I will just need to order them and it could take up to a few weeks to come in. From then on,…
“There is a family with two sons at Lincoln High School, and they started off the year doing online learning by joining classes through Zoom. Their grandma had some health issues, and their mom had to go stay with her in Kentucky for a while, so she left her sons in the care of her…
“Prior to becoming a CIS Site Coordinator, my background was in the care and education of very young children – preschool through kindergarten. That was my wheelhouse. In the beginning, I naturally felt drawn to the younger students on my caseload. I found myself feeling a bit apprehensive about working with older children. Enter my third-grade…
“Students come and go from every school. Communities In Schools can be especially helpful for those students who enter a classroom midyear. Often when our families move, it is out of necessity. Recently, we welcomed a family of four who relocated to Fairview from a very rural school in another county. None of the four…