Seniors in the Child and Family Development program recently completed their first community service project, helping homeless people throughout Rochester as the cold weather season begins. Students began collecting donations in September, after project leader Cailyn Hubbel (from Churchville-Chili) researched what to collect and where to drop off the donations. By the time the class finished, they had collected 500 donations!
Donations were primarily provided by Career and Technical Education (CTE) students and staff, with some coming in from outside donors. Students from six BOCES 2 CTE programs participated, competing to see which class could donate the most. Child and Family Development students organized the donations by checking them for quality and then sorting by product. Donations were laundered, with the help of the Personal Services class, before being assembled into kits that were dropped off to areas with high populations of homeless people.