Educational boards have been donated to Hillcrest Transitional Housing for the Life Skills meeting space and playground area in St. Joseph.

The St. Joseph School District McKinney-Vento Program was awarded a sub-grant that allows them to provide for the needs of children at local shelters. The grant allows them to support shelters by providing them with recreational books or educational materials. Kristin Glick & Kim Siela contacted community shelters that provide for the needs of children, to find out the needs of each shelter.

They found that Hillcrest was in need of a large white board for Life Skills classes for residents and for their children to use in the meeting space. They provided the white board and also decided to purchase a new chalkboard for the

playground area for children to be able to draw.

“We are so thankful for the white board and chalk board that the McKinney- Vento Program chose to purchase for us.” says Shannen White, Affiliate Director of Hillcrest Transitional Housing of Buchanan County. “This is going to improve the ability for our residents to learn in our life skills classes and allow the children of Hillcrest to be creative. Our children will now have a place to learn both inside in the meeting space and outside in the playground area.”