Family Resource Center Gets Funding Boost

Members of the Children's Welfare League present a check to BCS Family Resource Coordinator Shannon Boyd (second from right).

By Tim Reaves
BCS Communications Department

The Buncombe County Schools Family Resource Center (FRC) continues to help hundreds of families with food and other basic needs thanks to stalwart community organizations.

On Monday, Children’s Welfare League (CWL) President Debbie Hefner and other members presented an $8,000 check to FRC Coordinator Shannon Boyd at Biltmore Church’s Arden campus. The social welfare organization, serving Asheville and Buncombe County children since 1923, has donated around $20,000 to the FRC during the COVID-19 crisis. Ms. Boyd has used the funding to purchase and deliver thousands of food boxes to families with barriers that prevent them from reaching BCS food sites.

“Everything we’ve been able to do through the Family Resource Center has been because of the care and generosity of groups like Children’s Welfare League,” Ms. Boyd said. “All the food and all the supplies – hygiene, diapers, cleaning supplies, basic things that people need – all of that came from supply or monetary donations.”

CWL collaborates with school counselors to provide monthly stipends, scholarships, school supplies, and more to high school students in good academic standing with demonstrated financial need.

“We want to see them succeed, and we want them to know that they have support,” said CWL President-elect Shelia Elingburg. “We’re in their corner, rooting for them.”

Ms. Elingburg thanked the Walnut Cove Members Association for donating much of the CWL funding that ultimately reached families through the FRC.

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