Project Success helping homeless students in Decatur

The conference room at Project Success is piled high with kids’ coats, warm pajamas, and backpacks.  And even with all of that, there are more kids in need than clothes to go around.

Project Success identified 259 homeless children during the 2009-10 school year. This year, they’re seeing almost twice as many.

“Homeless,” as Project Success defines it for their program, are families who have no primary residence of their own and are doubling up with relatives; living in a motel; forced to stay somewhere other than their residence because utilities have been turned off or due to a house fire; living in a car or a shelter or children in temporary foster care; and unaccompanied minors, usually teens, who have been thrown out or locked out by parents or guardians.  Click here to read more of this article from Herald & Review…