A Fun Friday can be held at Saint Edward Church

A group gathering and useful resource truthful will happen at Saint Edward Catholic Church on Friday, July 25, from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. 

The Kennedy and Cummings Neighborhood Family Councils hosts the occasion, known as Fun Friday, which can function video games, free meals, and varied useful resource cubicles. 

“Our families need resources,” mentioned Eduardo Angulo, director of the councils. “We are bringing 45 community organizations and agencies to the families of those two neighborhoods.”

Although the occasion targets households from the Kennedy Elementary and Cummings Elementary neighborhoods, anyone can attend.

Among the useful resource cubicles can be Catholic Community Services, which gives reasonably priced housing, foster providers, and extra. 

The council will serve dinner at no cost beginning at 5:30 p.m. The council will raffle off prizes for kids, together with toys, bikes, and helmets.

Families can full an nameless survey in the course of the occasion, describing their household’s wants. The neighborhood household councils use the survey outcomes to develop motion plans.  

“They get to tell us what’s really going on,” Angulo mentioned.

The councils companion with 9 sponsors to make the occasion occur annually. Angulo mentioned that Fun Fridays are designed to assist low-income households who lack fundamental wants.

“All that translates into a lot of stress in the parents, and high levels of depression in the children, preteens, and teens,” he mentioned. “Maybe in three or four years we can say, with all these events that we do in the schools and in partnership with the schools, that all the schools, families, and children are thriving.”

The Community Business and Education Leaders handle the councils. Founded in 2019, the collaborative seeks to construct group resilience, which strengthens households and helps world-class training in Salem-Keizer.