HCEF-built Learning Centers and/or Resource Libraries (learn more about them here) are a safe place in 17 area housing centers for mothers and their children who are homeless. Among other functions, they provide a comfortable, supportive space where the children's creative expression is acknowledged and encouraged.

Here a child can develop known talents and discover unknown interests and abilities: African drumming, for example, or drawing, performing, working with clay, doing scientific experiments.

Visit Expression Junction, our "in-house" art gallery and special exhibits rooms for examples of the children's accomplishments.

And don't miss the opportunity to see what Diocese of Pittsburgh intermediate school students (grades 5-8) have written and drawn to express their newly gained understanding of how homelessness affects children's education.

(12/27/08)