Press release
The faculty, staff and students of the Trinity Valley Community College Terrell campus led by Tyson Spizzirri and Amanda Leyva recently collected 25 bags of items to donate to local children who are placed in Child Protective Services. Tyson and Kristin Spizzirri adopted their son after he was placed in CPS and know first-hand the reality that these children face when they are removed from their home with only the clothes they are wearing and the items they grab to be taken to a new place.
“These kids literally have nothing and many times the foster families that take in the kids are not given any notice in order to prepare to make them feel at home,” said Spizzirri.
Twenty-five bags were purchased by the Terrell Phi Theta Kappa chapter and the embroidery was donated by Kim Jones with Little Love Letters Monogramming & Gifts of Rowlett. TVCC faculty and staff along with members of Willow Springs Missionary Baptist Church in Edgewood/Canton donated clothes, blankets, stuffed animals, books, tooth paste, toothbrushes, and money to help fill these bags. The Athens chapter of Phi Theta Kappa also donated items to the drive.
The total donation amount between cash donated and items was over $1,500. The items were dropped off at the CPS office in Canton to be used for children in the Van Zandt, Kaufman, Henderson, and Rains county areas. With the need being so great, another drive is planned during the 2016-17 fall and spring semesters.