ROCHESTER, N.Y. — If anyone knows the heart-stopping sticker shock of buying school supplies, it’s a room full of college freshmen.
A crew of Nazareth University students is trading campus orientation for crayon counting to make sure housing insecurity doesn’t put local kids behind on day one.
Inside the Moving Forward Family Shelter, the energy mirrored the bustle of a retail department store, as thousands of families gear up for back-to-school shopping. Children flipping through colorful notebooks, brand new headphones and debating over which backpack matched their personal style for the new school year…