Officials estimate there are between 700 and 1,000 homeless students in Topeka and Shawnee County schools. The poverty and uncertainty of living in such a situation has a major effect on a student’s ability to learn. Topeka USD 501, the city of Topeka and the Topeka Rescue Mission, along with a number of other area businesses and agencies, have come together to launch the Impact Avenues program in an effort to combat this problem and break the generational poverty cycle.

(Read more: Local – The Topeka Capital-Journal)