DHS Key Club and Her Drive collect supplies for Empower Yolo
The DHS Key Club officers are collecting bras, menstrual-care supplies and general-hygiene products for people who need them in the Davis community.
The club is working in partnership with the official Her Drive, a nonprofit organization that works to provide these items to under-resourced individuals. The drive will be Dec. 19 to 21 and Dec. 26 and 27. Besides bras and menstrual products, they are collecting hygiene items like hand sanitizer, soap, body wash, dental care, and gently used and new clothing.
For people interested in donating, they must complete a form at bit.ly/HerDrive. There, they also can find a complete list of items accepted. Donors are asked to place items outside their specified location by 11 a.m. on their chosen pickup date. All Key Club officers will be wearing gloves and masks during the contact-free pick-up.
Letter: Thanks to the community!
It is with immense gratitude that I write to you, my Davis community. The Davis Community Church Gift Project 2020 (our 22nd year) went off without a hitch! You are all so generous, so kind, and so thoughtful to include in your Christmas planning the children of the DCC Gift Project.
We provided for: infants in the CommuniCare PNDT program boys housed in the Progress Ranch Group Home children enrolled in the Yolo Crisis Nursery Pamma’s Shoe Closet, for foster kids (over 60 pairs of new shoes!) DCC’s own program: Friday Faith and Food meals to serve the food insecure of our community.
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For Alyca Reynolds, Yolo County’s “Steps to Success” diversion program offered more than just a dismissed court case.
“It helped me get out of an abusive situation with my family,” Reynolds said of the program, part of the county’s Neighborhood Court restorative justice model.
Arrested in 2018 on battery and threats charges, Reynolds got a chance at redemption through Steps to Success. She says its teachings also gave her the courage to move to another state, where she’s now writing a memoir about her life.
“You don’t have to stay where you’re planted, even if it seems like you should,” Reynolds said.