Lessons in Life Begin at Houston’s Kids Program

The Houston Chronicle’s Alief Community Newspaper highlighted Glenn E. Donaldson this week. The 16-year old junior attends Hastings High School and participates in Houston’s Kids employment program. CIS Houston is proud to be part of the Houston’s Kids project, a collaborative effort supported and initiated by America’s Promise, the United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast, and the Houston Joint City County Commission on Children.

What began as a summer program to provide evacuee students with activities and enrichment has grown into an after-school program that serves more than 500 students from elementary through high school. The unique collaboration between the Alief Independent School District, the Houston YMCA, CIS Houston, and the Houston Children’s Museum works because each organization focuses on the same thing: helping children.

by Melissa Simon, CIS Director of Development