{"id":58092,"date":"2025-09-11T15:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=58092"},"modified":"2025-09-11T15:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:47:17","slug":"polk-county-teens-access-free-formalwear-through-project-prom-project-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/09\/11\/polk-county-teens-access-free-formalwear-through-project-prom-project-homecoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk County Teens Access Free Formalwear through Project Prom\/Project Homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Students can step into the Project Prom\/Project Homecoming store in Lakeland Square Mall and explore the array of colorful gowns, dapper suits, and sparkly accessories.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Project Homecoming, led by UthMpact teen leaders, offers free formalwear to all Polk County high schoolers, ensuring milestone moments like homecoming and prom remain within reach for families feeling the squeeze of rising costs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With costs for formalwear, shoes, and tickets, the strain on families \u2014 those that are above the poverty line, employed but struggle with the basics \u2014 cuts even deeper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To participate, students need to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bring their Polk County School ID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sign a Project Hoco Pledge to make safe, healthy choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next student shopping days are 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

September 13<\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 4 and 11<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pledge cards line the wall at Project Prom, where Polk County teens commit to staying sober and making safe choices as part of receiving free formalwear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Students can step into the Project Prom\/Project Homecoming store in Lakeland Square Mall and explore the array of colorful gowns, dapper suits, and sparkly accessories. Project Homecoming, led by UthMpact teen leaders,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"12","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMDlcL1NjcmVlbnNob3QtOTktNi53ZWJwP2ZpdD00MDAlMkMzNzAmc3NsPTEiLCJ0eHQiOiJQb2xrIENvdW50eSBUZWVucyBBY2Nlc3MgRnJlZSBGb3JtYWx3ZWFyIHRocm91Z2ggUHJvamVjdCBQcm9tXC9Qcm9qZWN0IEhvbWVjb21pbmciLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImhpZ2h3YXkiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.QznHlFveWv4J7Nulfoe7j_MmZqDSTsB6TR8iU40SUqgMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":58093,"url":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-99-6.webp","type":"image\/png"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[12263],"class_list":["post-58092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-polk-county-teens-access-free-formalwear-through-project-prom-project-homecoming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58094,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58092\/revisions\/58094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}