Riverside High School
Parent Teacher Student Association
BATTLE OF THE BINS
December 1 - December 12
for our RHS Families Seeking Food Assistance
Presented by Riverside High School
Riverside's Red Cross Club, NAMI Club, PTSA, and SIC are partnering with Greenville County Schools Student Services to help ease food anxiety for struggling students and their families. With help from the GCS homeless liaison, school counselors, social workers and therapists, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), we've compiled a list of items that these students would appreciate on arrival to a hotel. We will use this year's Battle of the Bins collection drive to make Mental Health Kits with these items and distribute the kits to the most popular hotels in our county that house these students and their families. In the kits, we also hope to include 988 Suicide Prevention hotline cards, NAMI resource cards, affirmation cards, and coping cards.
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The collection drive will begin on December 1 and just like the rival football game over Thanksgiving weekend, you choose your favorite team to support when making your donation - Clemson or Carolina. Cash and item donations can be dropped in the appropriate "bin" each morning in the T-Mall or made online through the links below.
Your support of this program is greatly appreciated!
Last year there were over 2200 homeless students in Greenville County. They and their families are constantly navigating where they will sleep, where to store their belongings, and how to secure their next meal. Many of these families stay in hotels. For many of us, these are simple things we take for granted. But for these families, having to focus on these daily uncertainties can create significant trauma—leading to depression, loneliness, and in some cases, withdrawal in the students.
