Outreach Projects
Community Partners/Community Placments
Kids in the Kitchen
Outreach Potpourri
Journey to Literacy
100
JLA provides handmade ______, mommy squares, and activity aprons to our community partners such as Grady Hospital and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta through one of JLA's oldest placements, Handmade by JLA.
baby blankets
100
The Community Partner Evaluations Committee reviews all applications from community agencies to partner with JLA. The CPEC Committee recommends to ________ the agencies to be selected for partnership.
the JLA Board
100
Kids in the Kitchen is a program developed by AJLI to empower youth to make healthy lifestyle choices and help reverse the growth of __________ and its associated health issues.
childhood obesity
100
Throughout March, JLA is collecting new and gently used books for children 0-Kindergarten for our community partners including: Sheltering Arms, Grow Kids, Frazer Center, Everybody Wins! Atlanta, and Genesis Shelter. We hope to collect 5,000 books. Name two places where you can bring your children's book to donate to one of our community partners.
JLA HQ; March General Membership Meeting; Placement Expo; Shamrock N Roll Road Race
100
Journey to Literacy was borne out of the League Initiative on ________ aka ECE.
Early Childhood Education
200
Our fearless Director of Outreach Projects this year is _______.
Trista McGlamery
200
True or False: A community partner must also be a community placement for JLA volunteers.
False: A community partner may just get outreach assistance from JLA -- volunteers for short term projects, advocacy assistance, Board Bank assistance, etc.
200
Kids in the Kitchen works with children of all ages served by our community partners and in the Atlanta community to increase awareness of childhood obesity and provide them tools for _______ and ________.
healthy eating and physical fitness
200
Should an urgent need of one of our community partners arise, the Community Outreach and Community Placements Councils can approve the use of moneys from the ________ Fund to meet such needs.
Emergency
200
Journey to Literacy hosts reading events once a month at ____________.
area libraries/Atlanta Fulton County Public Libraries
300
______________ allows members to enjoy a variety of volunteer opportunities with a variety of community partners as their placement.
Community Sampler
300
In order to be eligible to be a community _________ for JLA volunteers, an agency must first be a community partner.
placement
300
JLA's Kids in the Kitchen program was revamped this year and for the first time members with a passion for fighting childhood obesity can sign up for KITK as their ________.
placement
300
Community Partners make requests for outreach assistance in the _________ they submit in the Spring each year.
applications
300
____ out of 3 children come to school ready to learn
What is 1
400
JLA meets the immediate needs of several community partners for goods for their clients by hosting ___________ .
community drives (diapers, books, school supplies, etc.)
400
True or False: New this League year, once approved as a community partner, an agency will continue to be a community partner of JLA and will not have to re-apply every year.
True! Agencies used to have to apply every year. Now, JLA will just periodically confirm that the agency continues to meet partnership criteria.
400
Georgia ranks ____ highest rate of childhood obesity in the country.
second
400
__________ can participate in one or more Outreach projects by signing up for a three hour rotation.
All JLA members -- provisionals, actives, & sustainers! Though 3 hour rotations are designed for those with fundraising placements to get community experience and vice versa -- anyone can sign up anytime!
400
3rd grade is a critical time because at that point children must be ________________ and not learning to read.
reading to learn
500
Each year JLA hosts a Girls Roundtable forum for area nonprofits, government agencies and volunteer groups to discuss an issue facing Atlanta girls. This year's event focused on ________ [topic] featured a roundtable discussion and the screening of the documentary film Finding Kind.
Cyberbullying.
500
True of False: All agencies that are JLA community placements are JLA community partners, but not all JLA community partners are community placements.
True! Confusing, but think of a community partner as a broader category with community placement as a smaller, more specific category within that.
500
The Kids in the Kitchen program was inspired by the Junior League of ________ Junior Chefs program.
Calgary's
500
We collected approximately ___________ diapers for our community partners in our diaper drive earlier this year!
10,000
500
Journey to Literacy also hosts special events and gave away over _______ books at the Goblins in the Garden event at the Atlanta Botanical Garden in October.
1,000
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