Student Emergency Fund

About The Program

The objective of the Student Emergency Fund is to give immediate assistance to Students, and perhaps their families, by providing financial aid and/or gift-in-kind support.

This funding could be used to purchase items such as eyeglasses, EpiPens, medical supplies, food and clothing, transportation, to subsidize field trips, or to assist with additional financial needs that result from family crises (fire, flood, layoffs, illness, etc).

Student Emergency Fund Requests in the 2017/18 school year

(nearly) granted to meet request needs

I just want to say how much I appreciate this program!! It gives us (school staff) the opportunity to help families in need. With this program, when parents come in broken and beside themselves because they cannot provide for their children, or have had something horrific happen in their lives, we have the ability to say, “let me see what we can do”. Then, we actually help them.

From a Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board Staff Member