A project is born

The students — members of a Community Problem Solvers group at FPC — began to meet last summer. In addition to Nicole, the group includes Ethan Bellinger, Sierra Bice, Kayla Colandrea, Rida Muneer and Mia Scarcella.

Drawing from personal experience, the teens settled on a project: Provide personal care items and other comfort resources to families of hospital patients.

“We just thought that doing things like this would relieve the burden of having to rush out and gather supplies while they’re still anxious