Queen Creek High School DECA, HOSA’s Night Without a Home

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QUEEN CREEK, AZ – November 17, 2015 – Queen Creek High School’s DECA and HOSA members participated in an event called Night without a Home on Nov. 20. The event’s purpose is to raise awareness for homelessness by having students sleep outside the front of the school all night in cardboard boxes.

QCHS DECA has organized this event since 2012, scheduling it during the National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. In the weeks leading up to the event, the students participate in a food and clothing drives, where proceeds go to local charities, this year being the Family Resource Center in Queen Creek. They have invited fellow high school club HOSA to join them this year in hopes of the event having a bigger impact.

Resources can be hard to come by for those suffering from poverty and homelessness. According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, “Difficult choices must be made when limited resources cover only some necessities.” Queen Creek hopes that the food and clothing donated to the Family Resource Center will have a positive impact on those who need it.

Queen Creek’s DECA chapter is part of an international organization that helps prepare young people for careers in marketing, finance, business management, and hospitality. The school’s HOSA chapter is part of an organization whose mission is to promote opportunities in health care to students and to enhance the quality of health care for all people.

Queen Creek’s Family Resource Center is always looking for donations and can be contacted at 480-987-5988 for more information.

To learn more about Queen Creek’s local DECA and HOSA chapters, please visit the school’s website at (https://www.qchs.qcusd.org/).

For more information on this event, or about QC DECA’s community service, you can contact Megan Loponen at 480-298-4555.

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