CIS helps keep families in their homes with $750K relief grant
Harris County COVID-19 Relief Fund CIS grant beneficiaries Caden (center left) and Caleb Adams are pictured at CIS of Houston's Gala in March with (L-R) CIS Student Support Managers Porter Renfro (Holub Middle School, Alief ISD) and Derrick Bryant (Olle Middle School, Alief ISD), and CIS supporter Nathan Lee. (Photo by Roswitha Vogler)
“If you’re hungry, you can’t learn. If you’re being evicted from your home and the stress is that great, you can’t count on doing any schoolwork," Communities In Schools of Houston Director of Development Donna Wotkyns told the Houston Chronicle’s Memorial Examiner newspaper.
The Harris County COVID-19 Relief Fund has helped CIS of Houston support families in their times of greatest need—families like the Adamses in Alief Independent School District, who “are one of the 506 families that CIS helped as part of the nonprofit’s $750,000 grant from the Harris County COVID-19 Relief Fund. From March 15 through the end of July, CIS has helped around 15,000 students in the greater Houston area, whether virtually or in-person,” the Examiner reports.
Learn more about the Adams twins and their mom, and how Harris County grant funds from CIS helped support them at the height of the pandemic: