The Brighton High School Leadership Class continued its record-breaking streak, this year raising $85,000 for cancer patients and services at Trinity Health’s Warren R. and Lauraine A. Hoensheid Cancer Center in Brighton.
The funds raised benefit the Cancer Care Patient Support Services Fund in Brighton, which helps patients access support services, transportation, education, and other services that are essential but may not be covered by insurance.
Donations in past years have also helped fund the recent expansion of the center.
Last year’s total of just over $70,000 — in what began as an idea from then-Principal Gavin Johnson in 2012 — has grown into a community-wide happening that has raised over $425,000 for the care of cancer patients in the community.
The Leadership class is an application-based, hand-on, project-based class that organizes a variety of community and school-wide events throughout the year, providing students with leadership experience and life skills.
In addition to raising funds for the cancer center, students in the class plan and orchestrate pep assemblies, the annual holiday assembly, as well as the popular viral BHS Lip Dub.
