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Hauppauge Community Coat Drive

 

 

With your overwhelming support, local homeless families in need have found comfort in the more than 4,000 donations we received.

“The Warm Drive began with a simple idea,” recalls Beata Harrison, M.S.W., advanced student and president of the Student Social Work Association at Adelphi University’s Hauppauge Center,  “as the winter season was fast approaching, the Hauppauge School of Social Work Student As­­sociation identified the struggle of local communities whose basic needs of shelter, clothing and food needed to be met.”

In response, the center started The Warm Drive, a natural fit for Adelphi’s Hauppauge Center, where, according to Lynne Shulman, director of the center’s social work program, “student learning takes place in and out of the classroom.”  This approach to education “benefits both students and the community.”

The response to the drive “was overwhelmingly positive,” Beata said, “full of excitement and enthusiastic energy, reflecting that this cause was near and dear to many students’ hearts.” This simple impulse to help the community, “transcended into something larger, exemplifying a spirit of making a difference in people’s lives. “