Trinity Charter School
eighth grade graduation is huge success
July 9, 2005

Katy, Texas -Trinity Charter School marked the end of its first year at Krause Children’s Center in Katy with a celebration of achievement for eighth graders today (July 8).

Texas State Representative Glenn Hegar, R - Katy, addressed the students and guests about overcoming obstacles and succeeding, an important theme for children at the Krause Center whose challenges include coping with past abuse and neglect.

Amanda Broussard, principal of Trinity Charter School at the Krause Center, said the graduating eighth graders already know a little bit about working hard to beat the odds. “Children at Krause are usually two to three grade levels behind in school because of their turbulent pasts. They have to work twice as hard to catch up to other students’ their age.”

Krause residents participated in the celebration by performing “Living Your Dreams,” a mix of song, dance and poetry that expresses the students hopes for the future.

“The performance has been a great self-esteem builder for the children,” said Terri Bieber, art director for Krause. “They planned and practiced for weeks for the show.”

Trinity Charter School began partnering with Lutheran Social Services in 2004. The charter school was created to allow educators and therapists to develop curriculum specified to address the educational needs of the emotionally and behaviorally disturbed students at the center
For more information on children’s residential services or Trinity Charter School, call 800-938-5777 or visit www.lsss.org.

With four residential treatment centers serving more than 240 abused and neglected children in Texas every day, and an award-winning foster care program that serves more than 1,100 children, LSS provides love and support to abused, neglected and troubled children statewide.

Lutheran Social Services is the social service arm of The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. LSS and its affiliated ministries annually serve more than 23,000 children, elderly and poor in Texas and Louisiana regardless of religious beliefs, ethnicity, gender or age. Its ministries include children’s residential treatment centers, therapeutic foster care, adoption, emergency assistance, health care and retirement centers, disaster response and emergency assistance.