HISTORY OF COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT & PROGRAMS INITIATED BY

JLSL SINCE 1914 (PARTIAL LISTING)

1915

  • Occupational Therapy Project (Washington University School of Occupational Therapy)

1945

  • Forest Park Children’s Center (later merged with Edgewood Children’s Center)

1963

  • Arts and Educational Council/Fund

1964

  • Junior Kindergarten (forerunner of “Head Start” program nationwide)

1979

  • Vaughn Cultural Center (in cooperation with the Urban League)

1981

  • Women in Leadership Program (launched with the CORO Foundation)

1982

  • Teen Outreach (replicated nationwide)

1984

  • Girls Club of Soulard (now Girls, Inc. St. Louis)
  • Ecumenical Housing Production Corporation

1986

  • St. Louis Crisis Nursery (in collaboration with Deaconess Hospital and Coalition of 100 Black Women)
  • Community in Partnership Family Center

1988

  • St. Elizabeth’s Adult Day Care
  • St. Louis Family Theatre (established as Children’s Theatre Project)

1990

  • St. Louis Child Health Initiative

1991

  • Adopt-A-Student Arts Partners

1992

  • Children’s Advocacy Center

1993

  • Edgewood Therapeutic Foster Care
  • Our Little Haven

1994

  • Teen Opportunities To Achieve in Life

1996

  • Back to Sleep (in collaboration with SIDS Resources Inc.)
  • Christian Service Center

1997

  • Parenting for Success (in collaboration with United Way Success by Six)

1999

  • Komen St. Louis Race for the Cure® (organized the largest ever inaugural race)

2002

  • City CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates)
  • Glass Slipper (partnership with Nottingham High School)

2003

  • Arty Gras (now implemented by Spring Board to Learning)
  • Little Wishes (now implemented by Foster and Adoptive Care Coalition)

2005

  • V.O.I.C.E.S. (Volunteer Opportunities Involving Communities by Exemplary Students)
  • Holiday Little Wishes (with KSDK and the Foster and Adoptive Care Coalition)

2006-Present

  • Kids in the Kitchen (AJLI initiative)

2009

  • Leadership Training for High School Women

2010

  • Developing Strong Women