Beth Rupert-Warren struggles to tell the story without tearing up. A business in Jefferson County reached out to the social worker about having a glut of suitcases it wanted to give away. She found a home for them at the county children's home.

"And there was a little boy there and he's like, 'lady, do you have a green suitcase?' We're pulling them out of my car," Rupert-Warren recalls. "And I say, 'yeah, buddy, here's a green suitcase.' And he said, 'oh my goodness, when my daddy gets out of jail and I get to go home someday, I don't have a garbage bag, I have a suitcase.'"

Rupert-Warren is the community service coordinator for the Jefferson County Resource Network , a nonprofit in the rural Eastern Ohio county that strives to connect people to the aid they need. While the network, no

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