Ensuring At-Risk Children are Ready for School

It is difficult to start writing about anything else with the backdrop of last week’s horrific devastation in Haiti. While our life goes on and our work continues, it is sobering to realize that not that far away, a country and a people struggle to regain even the most basic necessities while facing the overwhelming loss of everything they once knew. This human tragedy does not diminish the challenges we face here in the United States. But it does provide a sobering reminder of how fortunate many of us are and the role we can play in helping others, whether in Haiti or here at home, who lack access to the privileges that we can easily take for granted.