Employees from the Greater Wyoming Valley Chamber of Commerce volunteered at Luzerne County Head Start, Inc. (LCHS) as part of the United Way of Wyoming Valley’s 29^th annual “Day of Caring.” 

The “Day of Caring” is when representatives from several businesses and organizations across the community join other private citizens to come together as volunteers, roll up their sleeves, and set to work helping nonprofit and charitable organizations throughout the Wyoming Valley. 

This year, nine volunteers from The Chamber of Commerce, including LCHS’s Board of Directors member, Ahmad Ali, completed outdoor projects including washing windows, raking leaves and plating flowers at LCHS’s central office building in Wilkes-Barre. 

LCHS would like to all those who participated in this volunteer effort.

Luzerne County Head Start, Inc. will provide its summer learning experience to upcoming Head Start children in the summer of 2022, thanks to a golf tournament sponsored by Navient, a loan management, servicing and asset recovery company. 

The annual event held at Blue Ridge Trail Golf Club in Mountain Top raised approximately $25,000 for LCHS’s Jump Start program.  The program is a 4-week-long summer learning experience that offers comprehensive services for 30 eligible 3 and 4-year-old children who will attend LCHS in the fall. 

This year marked the 15^th year for the tournament that supports early learning experiences for children.  In addition to the tournament, several businesses provided sponsorship and gift donations for raffle drawings and other prizes. 

The Navient Community Fund also awarded an $8,000 grant to help support the program. 

Luzerne County Head Start (LCHS) received dozens of back to school supplies for children thanks to a school supply drive hosted by employees at Core Mark, Wilkes-Barre and CVS Caremark, Hanover Twp.  Both businesses participate in the agency’s Adopt-A-Classroom program.

The program is designed to promote community engagement and strengthen the bond between community leaders and Head Start children. Volunteers from businesses that adopt classrooms at LCHS read stories, sponsor classroom activities, participate in classroom celebrations, and donate classroom supplies. 

Over the course of several weeks, staff at Core Mark and CVS Caremark collected notebooks, markers, crayons, pencils, scissors, classroom activity books and more.  The supplies were boxed up and delivered to Luzerne County Head Start’s Beekman Street center. 

The items will help ensure children from low-income families who attend Luzerne County Head Start will start the school year with everything they need to be successful at the start of the new school year. 

The first day of the new program year at Luzerne County Head Start was Monday, August 31.