Elk Regional Health System employees recently donated 55 backpacks full of school supplies to the Dickinson Center Inc. Children’s Preventative Services “Parents as Teachers” program. The backpacks, which were put together by employees in each department through the Elk Regional Gives Back program, will be given to school-aged children throughout Elk County.

Pictured in the front row are, from left, Patty Fodge, Lianne Schneider, Deb Love, Samantha Beaver and Deanna Meyer. Pictured in the back row are, from left, Kasey Keneske, Stewart Corl, Mary Kay Wendel, Lacy Nicklas and Berni Briendel.