{"id":22937,"date":"2022-12-12T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=22937"},"modified":"2022-12-23T09:43:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T17:43:55","slug":"cseas-annual-sock-tree-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=22937","title":{"rendered":"CSEA\u2019s annual \u201cSock Tree\u201d benefits local families in need this holiday season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Each year during the holiday season, the \u201cSock Tree\u201d comes to the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District (PYLUSD) office courtesy of California School Employees Association (CSEA) Chapter #293. The Christmas tree is decorated with donated socks from employees all around the district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right before Winter Recess, CSEA executive officers will donate the socks to the district\u2019s McKinney-Vento program.&nbsp;McKinney Vento&nbsp;benefits students who are living in transitional housing situations such as doubled or tripled up with other families for economic reasons, or living in homeless shelters, campgrounds, or cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This beloved tradition was inspired by former PYLUSD employee and CSEA executive board secretary, Gussie Morgan. One holiday season, Gussie and her coworkers were determined to donate much-needed items, like socks and undergarments, to local charities and community services organizations. After organizing a sock drive, Gussie had the idea to display the donations on a tree. The Sock Tree has been a holiday staple in PYLUSD ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CSEA-Sock-Tree-12-21-2022-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CSEA-Sock-Tree-12-21-2022-2.png\" alt=\"CSEA sock tree.\" class=\"wp-image-22940\" width=\"302\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CSEA-Sock-Tree-12-21-2022-2.png 750w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CSEA-Sock-Tree-12-21-2022-2-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year during the holiday season, the \u201cSock Tree\u201d comes to the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District (PYLUSD) office courtesy of California School Employees Association&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[876],"class_list":["post-22937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-school-district","tag-california-school-employees-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}