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Schaumburg Families Get A Creative
Boost from our students
For one heartwarming week in April 2010, faculty, staff and students at The Illinois Institute of Art–Schaumburg dedicated
their time and creative energies to benefit the lives of families in need.
The effort was an ‘all hands on deck’ approach to enhancing the already fruitful work of the Children’s Home + Aid Family
Center in Schaumburg.
The Marletta Darnall Schaumburg Child + Family Center provides subsidized services to low-income, high-risk families
living in Schaumburg and the surrounding areas. The center is an early intervention program providing early childhood care
and education, enabling families to work and receive assistance to care for their children.
The programs offered through the center provide childcare, early childhood education, parenting education and support,
crisis counseling and intervention services. The center also helps low-income families obtain health insurance through
KidCare, a state program that offers health care coverage and premium payment assistance to children and pregnant women.
The college community collected various art supplies for the center’s
children, such as glitter, glue, construction paper, stickers and other
goodies that make young art projects so tactile and exciting. Basic
household items, such as paper towels, trial-size toiletries and cleaning
products were also collected for the center’s families. Activities included:
art projects with family, children and center staff, rocking babies, reading
to children and more.
The college also left a lasting impression by donating a wooden bench
and coat rack. Hand-built by the campus president and dean of academic
affairs, the useful objects also created painting projects for the children
and volunteers.
This is the second year that The Illinois Institute of Art–Schaumburg
was rewarded by working with Children’s Home + Aid in Schaumburg.
Members of the campus community are looking forward to participating
on a school-wide level again.
The campus-wide effort included volunteer time and a donation drive to benefit the center’s families.