Athens Visitors Center Partners with DHR School Supply Project

Athens, AL - The Athens-Limestone County Visitors Center is proud to announce that they have partnered with Athens-Limestone County Department of Human Resources (DHR) to participate as a collection point for the 2011 DHR School Supply Project.  Drop off hours will be from 9am to 4pm, Monday through Friday, at the Visitors Center located at 100 North Beaty Street. 

DHR will have their distribution day on August 9th from 7:00AM-7:00PM. Parents who need supplies for their children must have an open case—Food Stamp or Family and Children service case with DHR.

They need to call their social or caseworker for a referral ahead of time.

DHR will never turn down school supplies, there are always late comers coming in and there will be children that come into care throughout the year that need them.

“We hope that by providing a convenient and easy access drop off location in Athens, we will help our community in their efforts to support DHR School Supply Project.  It’s a great opportunity for the Visitors Center to continue serving our community by helping collect schools supplies for area teens and children,” says Cayce Lee, Athens-Limestone County Visitors Center Social Media Cultivator.

The DHR school supply project benefits foster children, protective service children and children in the food stamp caseloads.  DHR builds bags of supplies based on a child's grade and school list.  They helped over 930 children last year through donations of supplies and money received from the community.

The items requested by DHR this year include:

Book bags for teens
Calculators – basic or scientific
Composition Notebooks
Construction Paper – assorted and solid colors
Crayola 8 and 24 pack crayons
Crayola Classic Colored Markers - washable
Crayola Colored Pencils
Dictionaries
Elmer’s Glue in 4 and 8 ounce bottles
Erasable type pens – blue, black, and red
Erasers – large rectangular and pencil top
Expo Dry Erase Markers
Glue Sticks – small and jumbo
Highlighters – yellow only
Index Cards – 3”x5”
Large Block Graph Paper
Notebook paper – wide and college ruled
Paint sets- watercolor basic colors
Pencil Sharpeners with shaving catcher
Pencils, #2
Plastic School Boxes 5”x7” (no pink please)
Pocket folders – with and without pockets (no decorations please)
Kinder Mats - red and blue washable
Scissors- Fiskar brand blunt and sharp and youth size
Sharpies Pens - Black
Subject Dividers with and without pockets
Three-ringed binders – ½”, 1”, 2”, 2 ½”
Writing Tablets – Primary and First Grade
Zippered Pencil Pouches with rings

For more information about the DHR program call Jennifer White at 256-216-6411.