The current program roster reflects diverse community needs and interests of the League's members. After a year of research by our community-related committees, the League has enthusiastically endorsed focusing our future program development efforts on the Positive Development of Adolescent Girls. This initiative will involve addressing the needs of adolescent girls through direct service, public awareness and education, advocacy, media awareness and day-long community service projects. Junior League volunteers conduct life skills training, develop and staff a Job Resource Center, arrange social, cultural and athletic activities, and provide support and encouragement to homeless adolescents living in housing operated by Bridge Over Troubled Waters. In A Day provides short-term volunteer activities, usually one day, addressing needs in the community.
Projects take place in Boston and the South Shore suburbs.
This financial education and literacy program for girls and women provides a mentoring program. Volunteers provide support while the girls participate in using various tools to understand financial matters. This includes a six session curriculum. Relationships are maintained for six months and the volunteer contacts their assigned teen a minimum of twice a month. The panels are responsible for reviewing service plans developed between family members, DSS social workers and other agencies providing services to the family.