The Poshard Foundation for Abused Children distributed grants to dozens of social service agencies Tuesday.
The Poshard Foundation awarded grants to 30 agencies in the region totaling more than $100,000.
Founder Glenn Poshard says the foundation’s happy they are able to support these agencies after the uncertainty of the past year.
“The pandemic has put stress on everyone, but the one thing that we know from communicating with the social service agencies throughout the area is the effort has been tremendous by you folks that are working with these children.”
The foundation distributes the funds in April to bring attention to Child Abuse Prevention Month.
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Jose Martinez, a resident of Cobden, Ill., gets the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on Feb. 27 at a temporary vaccination clinic.
Illinois and some other states have prioritized farmworkers in their coronavirus vaccine plans. For many migrant workers from Mexico, this means they could receive the vaccine a year earlier than in their home country.
On a recent Saturday, white vans shuttled small groups of migrant farmworkers from the southern Illinois orchard where they work to St. Joseph’s Catholic Church. The workers had arrived days earlier from Mexico for the start of the tilling season.
Many attend St. Joseph’s Spanish-language service during their months-long stay in the rural village of Cobden. But on this day, they came to the church, not for Mass, but to receive the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine.
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CARBONDALE â Health care workers across Southern Illinois were vaccinated this week, bringing a rare moment of celebration for fatigued workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic in this region.
On Thursday, Southern Illinois Healthcare employees who were in the first cohort to receive shots were greeted by clapping and cheering colleagues as they made their way inside. The shots were given at the old Great Skate Train building that now serves as SIH s human resources training center. It s been almost a party-like atmosphere, said SIH CEO Rex Budde.
Jenny Prest, a registered nurse, blared Pump up the Jam in her car on the way to receive her shot, wanting to get in the right mood for her part in the historic moment.