Laraway School hosts a holiday store each December containing new and gently-used items donated by staff and community members. Items are creatively displaced as they would be in a traditional retail space. Laraway "Elves"---teachers wearing holiday caps---stand at the ready to help students choose and wrap presents for members of their family. There's something for everyone...a doll for a little sister, new socks for a caregiver, a coffee mug for grandpa. Each youth leaves school with an assortment of beautifully wrapped presents for family members.
Holidays can be a particularly challenging time for young people who've experience trauma and/or loss. What is supposed to be a happy time can conjure memories of sadness. At Laraway, we celebrate the holiday season in a quieter, low-key sort of way...shining a small light as winter, the time of less light, approaches.
The taste was so great that cannot be say a word to complain about the food. After taste that great food, we went back to my grandmother house. CFA study material
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