The Emergency Action Network (TEAN) was founded in the summer of 2016 to work to alleviate the aggravations of poverty for children and families in Brunswick. Too many families in our community are struggling to meet their most basic needs. Our goal is to identify those needs and harness the resources of the community to support them. In 2018, TEAN became a 501(c)3 organization. Since then it has greatly expanded its scope from collecting material items to also collecting financial donations. In an era when politics have decimated safety nets for children and families as childhood poverty rises in our state, it has become increasingly necessary for communities to organize and support their most vulnerable members. TEAN is in a unique position to act as an umbrella organization for community members and other groups working in concert to fill the unmet needs we see everyday in Brunswick. Our goal is to identify those needs and harness the resources of the community to support them. Our process is simple, as soon as a need is identified in the student population we will post the need to our Facebook group of TEAN Allies and ask for your help. We typically are asking for a specific thing or things that is needed by one or more of our students. These items are then collected at the superintendent’s office and distributed to students discretely by administrators.