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!
“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…
“I was contacted by a site coordinator about a family being homeless in August. I then reached out to the family and met them at a campground, where they had been living in a tent for the last two weeks. The family consists of 2 middle school children, mom, and dad. After speaking with the…
“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…
“We have a new student at our school. In her second week here she had gotten into trouble at lunch, which had prompted our vice principal to make a phone call home. Her mother expressed how much she wanted her daughter to meet with someone at the school for extra support. She immediately began working…
Brendan Evans is a larger than life figure at Richmond High School. He has a booming voice, a strong opinion, and some would say a stubbornness that just won’t stop. He has been a staple on his school’s radio and TV productions and is a born sports commentator. He has an opinion on everything and isn’t afraid…
“I was struggling a lot in school. I had no friends and little motivation to improve my grades – I just didn’t see the importance of it. To add to it all, my family situation was going downhill fast. I reached the point where my grades were slipping, my emotional state was the worst it…