Jan 29, 2021 | News and Events
The vehicle pulled slowly into the bumpy parking lot, a black plastic trash bag taped across one window, doing the best it could to keep the cold winter air at bay. After parking, a young couple stepped out to find LifeStyles of Maryland Assistant Director Corae Young...
Jan 15, 2021 | Staff & Volunteer Stories
It was January, almost exactly 8 years ago now. Cyndi Modlin and her sister-in-law had just finished dinner a La Tolteca, and as they drove home along Washington Avenue in La Plata, they saw her. A homeless woman in her early 30s, bundled against the cold, sitting...
Dec 28, 2020 | Staff & Volunteer Stories
Shavonna Butler grew up as a military kid with a father in the Navy. In that world, volunteering in the community was a part of life and one that she always found fulfilling. So years later, when she went from Navy daughter to Air Force wife, it was no surprise that...
Dec 11, 2020 | Staff & Volunteer Stories
Lisa Barrett is the type of teacher who doesn’t stop caring when the bell rings to end the day. When the pandemic arrived and the schoolbuses full of children stopped pulling into Dr. Thomas L. Higdon Elementary each morning, Barrett, a kindergarten teacher, felt...
Dec 8, 2020 | News and Events
If you’ve driven along US-301 in White Plains over the last several days, you may have seen our new billboard. It shows a child, unwashed and wearing dirty clothes, sitting against a concrete wall with eyes staring down. Homeless AND a pandemic? Most of us know how...
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