Immaculate Heart Students Give Back During the Holiday Season

Both on and off campus, Immaculate Heart High School and Middle School students have been immersed in ways that reflect the reason for the holiday season. Through a Justice Fair and the Adopt-a-Family Program, students recently focused on raising awareness and support for those who need it most.

During Immaculate Heart’s semi-annual Justice Fair, an event put on by theology teacher Tim Crehan’s Contemporary Moral Issues class, students set up booths selling handmade items and edible treats to raise funds for worthy causes. This year, the students chose to support the California Wildfire Relief Fund, Everytown for Gun Safety, Kids in Need of Defense, and Mental Health America. All told, the CMI students raised over $1,000 for their selected charities.

While the CMI students were preparing for the Justice Fair, the entire school community was also collecting food and necessities for the Adopt-a-Family Program run each year through the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles. Additionally, middle schoolers knitted and sold scarves to benefit a specific “adopted” family participating in the program.

On Friday, December 6, Adopt-a-Family volunteers arrived on campus to pick up the many bags and boxes of items students had donated – so many, in fact, that they needed two trips to pick them all up! Then, on Saturday, December 17, over 100 Immaculate Heart students and their parents headed downtown early in the morning, joining other Adopt-a-Family volunteers from all over the city to deliver the assembled packages of food, necessities and gifts to Skid Row families in need.

About Immaculate Heart

Founded in 1906, Immaculate Heart High School & Middle School educates young women in grades sixth through 12th from its central location in the Los Feliz foothills near Griffith Park. The school has a long and distinguished history, with more than 10,000 graduates. Today’s student body of more than 700 young women is both geographically and ethnically diverse, drawing on students from throughout Los Angeles County. Last year, virtually 100 percent of Immaculate Heart graduates matriculated to colleges, including to the most prestigious schools in the country.