EAGLE LAKE — Recent speakers at Eagle Lake Noon Lions Club were Dulce Mendoza, recreational and vocational coordinator, and Maria Viera, the recruiting and on-boarding assistant for Endeavors Eagle Lake Children’s Center, a permanent shelter program that opened in 2023 with a capacity for 50 teenage boys.
Endeavors provides unaccompanied migrant children with a safe, nurturing and supportive environment that is centered on the child’s well-being as they await reunification with fami ly. During their transition, each child is assigned a case manager. At this time, Endeavors at Eagle Lake serves 32 minor boys between the ages of 13-17. The entire staff who work on various shifts is approximately 90 adults who serve the residents with education, transportation, recreation, medical, mental health, dental and vision care, food service, laundry service, social workers, case managers and other professionals.
The boys have a routine schedule they follow each day.