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Richmond Community Schools highlights care closet, family liaisons and free health services for students
Summary
District officials updated the board on expanded wraparound services: nearly all family liaison positions filled, a semi-open care closet, partnered flu clinic and mobile dental screenings and donated shoes distribution.
District staff told the board Sept. 24 that Richmond Community Schools has expanded student-support services this fall, filling most family-liaison positions and beginning distribution from a care closet stocked with donated shoes, clothing and school supplies.
Bridget Case, director of communications and student support, said family-liaison positions are filled at all but one building, and liaisons have distributed more than 1,500 donated items to families. The district also said it had arranged a free flu-shot clinic (Oct. 9) at Richmond High School in partnership with Meridian Health, and that mobile dental screenings had already reached more than 50 students at Starview at no cost to families.
Case said the district is coordinating coat and jacket drives (with local partners), is working with Richmond High students to fulfill care-closet requests for schools and teachers, and is exploring ways to replace some tutoring services whose funding was cut. The board acknowledged the community and nonprofit partners — including a donor identified in the meeting as Rita, who supplied 335 pairs of shoes — and thanked staff for expanding wraparound supports.
A retired teacher and other community volunteers also described participation in a poverty simulation and a “challenge day” at Dennis Middle School that family liaisons attended to better understand barriers families face. Board and staff said they will continue efforts to bundle services so families avoid multiple trips to access health or social supports.
