Supporting Students From Poverty 2024 by Dr. Pearl Garden

Community Food Banks

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Community in Schools

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Lion's Club

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They helped fund and provide glasses for low socioeconomic students.

Individualized support in the form of academics (intervention, enrichment) and behavior/discipline

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partner with community businesses to donate supplies and snacks

Keep snacks in my office.

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CIS, counseling

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Food 4 Kids

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Getting students and parents connected with our campus social worker to make sure they get access to the resources they need.

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Food Pantry

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Families are provided access to the North Texas Food Bank and others.

Weekly meal packs that are sent home on Fridays to students

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Food4 Kids, district wide list of community resources, local churches that have programs

Free breakfast/lunch (district provides)

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Food 4 Kids program with NTFB

Provide free lunch and breakfast for all students. Counseling services for families that need food over the weekends, clothing bank for students, school supplies, etc.

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Food 4 Kids/North Texas Food Bank

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Helping Hands

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Connect Families with shelters, food and resources.

Embedded SEL days

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Providing meals during school holidays and the Summer.

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Summer meals

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Snacks in the counseling office

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Our counselor provides community resources for families we know are in need. Our district does a free back to school fair in August for families that qualify for free and reduced lunches. Students receive all supplies specific to their grade level as well as they can get a haircut

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Supporting students emotionally

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Listening to students problems, and providing them with quality advice.

Food bags (sent home on Fridays)

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Food Pantry at school

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Network

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Network of Community Ministries - food truck/van on campus weekly

Food 4 Kids

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Community Partners (Churches, Home Depot, Office Depot). Food 4 Kids

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weekend backpacks

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We work with local food banks/organizations to provide non-descript backpacks to students with non-perishable food on Friday afternoons and then they return the backpacks on Monday to refill for the next weekend.

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Afterschool tutoring with snacks provided

Our local churches and businesses offer free resources.

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Building relationships with families and connecting them with community resources

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Metrocare

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Referrals to metrocare plus in school social worker for services

Backpacks and school supplies donated by community partners and local businesses

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weekend meal bags

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Parenting/Health Fairs

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Operation Christmas

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Partnership with Toys for Tots and use of local grant funds to provide gifts to students.

would love to explore grants that could provide free breakfast for all kids

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Community Resources

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Check-in with Student and Family Services to see what specific resources are available in the district. Mini's Pantry, Love Pacs, local stores, and PTA.

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Free breakfast and lunch.

Intervention services through Panorama data.

Care Clinic

Individual conversations and help them connect to appropriate resources and/or points of contact

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Explore additional resources

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Weekly food bags & campus pantry

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Angel Tree Xmas Program

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Families apply for their low socioeconomic students to be "adopted" by community members, who in turn purchase presents or donate from paycheck to provide presents for the holiday/Christmas season.

Grayson County Area Districts

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We're too far away from DFW to regularly access resources. Looking for local, resources and services in the surrounding communities...

Community Well Website

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List of community resources available in our rural area.

Texoma Community Resource Guide available to all families

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I have snacks in my office. Also buy lunch for random students one day a week.

Counselors, CIS

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Counseling services for students of parents that need support

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Our counselors have access to support nets and resources for families in need.

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Counselors are providing families with information and resources that may provide assistances depending on their needs.

Food Pantries, District "love packs", Emergency Funds as needed

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Food 4 Kids, Parent Trainings, Mental Health Resources

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Community Partnerships

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Partnering with area churches and companies for needed resources

Grant opportunities available?

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Operation Warm

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Provided coats for the entire student body

Available resources

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Shelters for homeless kids/families

Community outreach for families/kids

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partnerships with community businesses

Identifying Poverty based students

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We are actively identifying students in poverty and brainstorming the support they need (e.g., food, shelter, transportation, etc.).

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Mobile glasses supply bus for students.

Operation Warm

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Manna House, Salvation Army of Ellis County, HOPE Clinic, North Ellis County Outreach, Workforce Solutions, STAR Transit

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Irving ISD

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The resource fair is held at the beginning of the year. Irving School Foundation provides weekend food bags to students and families. District has a contract with Children's Health to assist with medical needs. Project Pass assists our Homeless population. The TAPPS program provides baby resources and child care for student pregnancy (mothers and fathers). District provides all students free breakfast and lunch.

Network of Community Ministries

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Getting Ahead Program

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Six week training program using Bridges out of Poverty to teach skills and connect to resources to rise above poverty.

District social workers

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Rental/Mortgage Assistance in Dallas County

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Will be available again in January

Safe Landing

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After school program at our school providing dinner and school support to students.

Title 1

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Parent Family Engagement, tutoring, training for staff, etc.

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Trusted World

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Community Food Banks, partnering businesses, partnering churches.

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Daily Care Time, supplies, snacks, extra counseling, tutoring,

Healing Hands Ministries

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Free/sliding scale medical clinic

Light of Hope Immigration Law

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Next steps being considered are:

Identify funding sources.
Identify more community resources.
Talk to Food Service central office personnel to determine logistics to keep free and reduced lunch in place.

Gateway of Grace

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Refugee services

Mentors and Volunteers

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weekly mentoring, reading with students

The Concilio

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Kids University

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White Rock Center of Hope

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Interfaith Family Services

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Wilkinson Center

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Clothing drive, clothing closet, canned goods, encourage teachers to have healthy snacks in their rooms.

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On campus care closet

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PTA clothes closet

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Link

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Adding links to our web site (school and church) to help our families help themselves. We have very few in poverty, but situational is a very real thing for many.

St.Philip's School and Community Center

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As a School and Community Center we strive to be impactful to Community we learn in. We have a pantry that operates more like a grocery strore and brings integrity to the experience of our community members we service. We serve over 750 households and distribute over 700,000 pounds of food annually. We would love the opportunity to expand our collaborative efforts.

As a School and Community Center we strive to be impactful to Community we learn in. We have a pantry that operates more like a grocery strore and brings integrity to the experience of our community members we service. We serve over 750 households and distribute over 700,000 pounds of food annually. We would love the opportunity to expand our collaborative efforts.

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Food Bank and Pantry

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Education for me

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Look into these sites and others like it to education myself on the different services and grants available.

Put support systems to work

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The counselors in our school can inform families about the supportong resources they may have access to.

How to Help

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Maintain High Expectations

Foster a campus culture of the effects of poverty and how to help

Create an easily accessible list of resources

St.Philip's Food Pantry Contact

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Ametria Maryland

crosswinds

angela_small — 2025-08-04 19:54:38 UTC

personal contributions, pregnancy services, food housing, ebt, foster card, DFS, donations from businesses, etc.

luannrose1 — 2025-08-04 19:55:22 UTC

I keep snacks for my students. My students find out quickly I keep community numbers at my desk and can help refer them, when needed.

*A BIG ONE*

I give grace, I'll meet you where you are. Together we go forward.

Crosswinds

angela_small — 2025-08-04 19:55:35 UTC

We have many services available to us. Thank you.

Providing snack, personal hygiene kits, snack packs for kids, access to social worker.

gracielajensen — 2025-08-04 19:56:14 UTC

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Food banks and the HUB

luannrose1 — 2025-08-04 19:57:47 UTC

We can implement a school pantry to give students access to food, snacks, cheap clothing, toiletries, hygiene products, etc.

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Volunteer Work and modeling expected behaviors.

Current - Free breakfast

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All students get free breakfasts

Salvation Army

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cathyadelcastillo09 — 2025-08-04 19:59:08 UTC

Snacks for afterschool practices.

charities, district social work hub, and community closet, and mental health services.

gracielajensen — 2025-08-04 19:59:17 UTC

Partnering with dollar store for food donations.

gracielajensen — 2025-08-04 19:59:58 UTC

Help look up resources

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Week - community theater fundraiser

Month - build trust and model behavior expectations

School Year - have list of resources ready and available

Resources

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Food Pantry - not just NTFB, but also local religious groups offer them

Helping Hands - food and other resources

Angel Tree and Santa Cop at Christmas - presents for kids

Library - free online tutoring

Help with job application

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Access to gently used uniforms & school supplies

pariesaaltman1 — 2025-08-04 20:01:05 UTC

Distribute library card forms to students

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allow students to ask parents to complete the forms so we can take the forms to the library and enable students to have access to library resources, not just books!

Providing resources from the district Liaison.

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