At our recent annual Donuts and Grownups event, where Principal Gilliam invited students to give a ‘shout out’ for their parents, you could absolutely feel the pride and joy in our gym. What a beautiful thing. A couple weeks later, at our third Parent-Staff Social, a hilarious mock Family Feud hosted by our Outpatient Therapist, TaQuisha Bell, aka ‘Steve Harvey’, had us all cracking up.
These moments remind us of what Father Greg Boyle, Founder of Homeboy Industries (the largest gang-intervention program in the world), calls ‘kinship’ — a community of belonging so mutually uplifting that “God might recognize it.”
Kinship has a way of showing up with donuts and game nights, while cheering together at basketball games, or working together during student conferences — a reminder that there’s no secret recipe for the simple moments that bring us closer together.
Family Feud in action!
Parent-Staff Social crew
