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CURRENT PROGRAMS, COLLABORATIONS, CO-SPONSORSHIPS


Mini Projects

This JLSL committee offers a variety of short term, hands-on volunteer opportunities in the community. Opportunities can include Glass Slipper and Little Wishes event assistance, and helping plan and participate in special events at other area non-profit organizations. The program also allows scheduling flexibility for League members.

LeagueLarks/Nightingales

The JLSL choral groups provide a hands-on opportunity that offers music therapy stimulation and an audience participation experience to nursing home residents, retirement centers, adult day care and rehabilitation facilities throughout the St. Louis area.

St. Louis Family Theatre Series

Celebrating its 19th year in the community, this program introduces 30,000 St. Louis area school children and their families to live theatre annually.

V.O.I.C.E.S. (Volunteer Opportunities Involving Communities by Exemplary Students)

VOICES is a program where the philosophy and spirit of the JLSL will be integrated to influence the positive development of 6th grade girls through an adolescent volunteer program. Participation in this program will emphasize hands-on voluntarism, the exploration and development of individual gifts and strengths and exposure to different aspects of the community to broaden prospective and challenge perceptions.


HISTORY OF COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & PROGRAMS 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®
2002 City CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates)
Glass Slipper
2003 Arty Gras
Little Wishes
2005 VOICES (Volunteer Opportunities Involving Communities by Exemplary Students)
Holiday Little Wishes (with KSDK and the Foster and Adoptive Care Coalition)