The Fishers High School National Honor Society (NHS) selected Indiana Center for Prevention of Youth Abuse and Suicide (ICPYAS) as its charity of choice for the group’s annual No Shave November fundraiser.
Students from NHS delivered a check for $7,788.78 to ICPYAS on Friday, Dec 6.
“When they delivered the check, none of us expected that it would be such a significant donation,” said Maggie Owens, Program Manager for ICPYAS. “They told us the creative ways they raised the money by bake sales, donation buckets, root beer floats and one teacher actually auctioned off seats in her classroom.”
A donation of that amount can provide suicide prevention or child abuse prevention to over seven schools or train 520 adults in one of ICPYAS prevention programs.
“When we told the students about how their donation would impact their community, they all had such a look of pride and empowerment,” said Melissa Peregrin, Executive Director of ICPYAS. “They truly did their research about our organization and what we do in the community and they shared that with their whole student body at Fishers High School. It is incredible to think that a group of high school students were able to do this for us.”
About ICPYAS
The Indiana Center for Prevention of Youth Abuse & Suicide (ICPYAS) was founded in 2001. ICPYAS works passionately to end youth abuse and suicide through its educational programs. With almost two decades of experience, ICPYAS provides evidence-based programming to educate youth and adults, empowering them to recognize, react and locate the appropriate resources available for help. ICPYAS offers five comprehensive programs that support its mission as it actively works towards a day when there will be no more abuse or suicide in the lives of Hoosier children. Learn more at indianaprevention.org.