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Homeless But Not Hopeless: School on Wheels program delivers help to kids
Indianapolis Star, December 15, 2011
“Five-year-old Savion Friar scratches his forehead and twirls his pencil back-and-forth between his fingers.
‘What color does that say?’ asks his tutor, Cindy Dora.
‘Yellow,’ Savion replies.
‘That’s right,’ Dora says. ‘And what color did you make them?’
‘Uh-oh.’
Savion had colored the items on his worksheet red by mistake. Dora tells him to add the yellow to the red. The teacher will understand.
Savion sits on his heels as he colors, on a chair that’s big enough to swallow him. His camouflage backpack lies flat on the table, in a room lined with books at School 14.
But just a few months ago — before his mother got in touch with School on Wheels — Savion had no tutor, no chair to sit on and no table for his worksheets. He and his four siblings were doing their homework on the floor of a homeless shelter…”
WTHR 13, December 10, 2011
“INDIANAPOLIS – A gift Saturday for families that can’t afford a holiday portrait. Volunteer photographers offered to help low-income and homeless families create family treasures…”
School on Wheels Recruiting Volunteers to Tutor Homeless Children
WISH TV 8, November 21, 2011
“INDIANAPOLIS (Press Release) – School on Wheels seeks to recruit, train and place 50 new volunteers for the beginning of the spring school semester (begins Jan. 9th) to provide tutoring to children living at shelters and schools in Indianapolis. With your help, we can fill the remaining spots in no time…”
Mobile Classrooms Reach Homeless Children
ABC 6 News, October 19, 2011
“Homework time may be a nightly tradition at kitchen tables across central Indiana, but for children without homes, one group is filling the gap with a mobile alternative. School on Wheels offers one-on-one tutoring to children at homeless shelters four nights a week, 6News’ Grace Trahan reported…”
Family Circle, September 2011
“The average age of a homeless person in Indianapolis is 9. Sally Bindley learned this shocking fact in 2001, when she was working in public relations. With a bachelor’s degree in education and a master’s in social work, she had always hoped to find a way to marry her two passions…”
Caring Volunteers Give Time For Most Vulnerable Citizens
Indy.com, November 24, 2010
“Dear School On Wheels Volunteers: Today and every day I am thankful for you. Every week you spend an evening helping the city’s most vulnerable population – homeless children. You give 100% of yourselves…”
The Non-Profit Times, September 1, 2010
“Indianapolis, Ind-based School on Wheels uses micro-volunteering as a way to insprire and educate the homeless youth its organzation tutors daily. Aside from its 500 tutors, the organization goes online to engage volunteers…”
Back To School: Help Homeless Students Get Ready For The Classroom
Change.org, August 17, 2010
“Unfortunately, for the roughly one million students across the country who are struggling with homelessness, those supplies and clothes can be difficult to come by. The good news is that…”
Mentors Help At Risk Youngsters Succeed
Indystar.com, August 17, 2010
“School on Wheels trains volunteers to visit about 400 children in 10 local shelters and one elementary school for an hour per day, four days per week. Mentors ask about school, spend a few minutes on a writing prompt, help with…”
Hope For Students Without Homes
Indy.com, August 2, 2010
“Local connections are essential to serving a portion of the population that has to be found and identified before it can be helped. Family homelesness lacks the visibility of stereotypical life on the streets; and youngsters, especially in adolescence…”
Examiner.com, April 14, 2010
An organization called “School on Wheels”, located at 2815 e. 62nd St. in Indianapolis has a mission to those homeless teenagers and their younger siblings. They have been tutoring homeless children in Indianapolis for the last…”
Sally Bindley Millman: Educating Homeless Children With School on Wheels
Inquiry, Spring 2010
Advocating for homeless children, Sally Bindley Millman embraces a broad definition of education – one that extends well beyond the tradition classroom. As founder and CEO of School on Wheels in Indianapolis Millman, her staff and…:
School on Wheels Nearly Out of Gas
The Indy Channel – 6 News, Aug. 17, 2009
“School on Wheels is trying to help as many families as possible, but the situation has gotten to the point that the organization will have to turns some people in need away. “There’s so many people in that we just don’t have the supplies to stock…”
Sports Illustrated Factoid of the Week
SI.com, May 18, 2009
“‘PeyBack Foundation awards more than $500,000 in grants t 104 community agencies.’ It was an item about Peyton Manning’s annual distribution of money to needy groups in Indianapolis, Tennessee and New Orleans, the three places he’s…”