Charity Newsies

Charity Newsies served over 18,000 children for the 2023-2024 school year. Providing children with clothes for school has a huge impact. Ensuring that children have clothes plays a role in promoting school attendance and reducing truancy. In the study “Increasing Student Attendance: Strategies From Research and Practice,” by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, they highlight an initiative from Oregon focused on preventing truancy that includes a strategy of making sure kids have appropriate clothing to attend. Research from the National Center for Children in Poverty also highlights the relationship between lack of clothing for school and truancy. Even the Ohio Department of Education acknowledges that, “Certain factors related to poverty contribute to absenteeism. These include lack of transportation, not having coats and boots, lack of clean clothes and the need for health care.” In addition, clothes have an impact on performance. Psychologists have studied this “enclothed cognition” and refers to the systematic influence that clothes have on the wearer’s psychological processes. When children are dressed in brand new clothing that makes them feel confident and self-assured, they are ready to learn and ready to succeed at school.

We provide school clothing to children in need in Franklin County,