Every Student, Every Day Intern Stories: The Trials And Triumphs Of Five-Year-Old Twins When Cindy and Max came onto his caseload, Kevin Valle, United Way’s Every Student, Every Day (ESED) intern at Vista La Mesa Academy in Lemon Grove, discovered one reason why the five-year-old twins weren’t in school: their family lacked reliable transportation. That was only one issue contributing to their chronic absence. By

Every Student, Every Day Intern Stories: Chelsea Builds Empathy “I didn’t know what social work in a school setting would look like,” explains Chelsea Guevara, an SDSU senior majoring in Social Work who was chosen to be part of United Way’s Every Student, Every Day cohort. The absence intervention initiative coordinates schools,

Summer Reading Reaches New Heights Fifty-six books over four weeks. Jackson Ellis may have set a record at last summer’s Readers in the Heights (RITH), a literacy initiative, coordinated by United Way of San Diego County, that brings summer enrichment opportunities to elementary students in City Heights. “It was shocking to us, too,”

Every Student Every Day Intern: Haley Discusses Attendance Fundamentals Building Blocks to Everyday Attendance Second-grader Samuel didn't turn in his homework a single day. Not once. Chronically absent, he struggled to get to school on time, and social work intern Haley Smith needed to find out why. "He used to have his