During the 2018-2019 school year, Assistance League of San Jose provided school uniforms to 7,291 students in 39 schools (pants, shirts and socks). What a great feeling to see the children’s excitement when they receive the clothing!
During the 2018-19 school year, over 1,300 students in 55 second and third grade classrooms enjoyed listening to our members read two books each month. The program’s books are left in the classroom to read again and again. Each session, members leave a project or prop that the teacher can add to their curriculum to enhance the reading or to use for further discussion. At holiday time, each child received a book of their own to take home to their family.
Members cook dinner once a month for families at San Jose’s Family Supportive Housing. Four times a year, they put on an event such as a petting zoo, or SuperArtist day, bringing smiles to the families there. Members also volunteer at Cityteam, helping to provide clothing to the city’s residents in need.
In the 2018-2019 year, Caring Hands created over 6,200 items, including baby blankets, baby caps and jackets, booties, chemo caps and lap blankets for patients at Valley Medical Center, Family Supportive Housing, and two residential care facilities.
Assistance League of San Jose has donated thousands of teddy bears to organizations serving children in crisis through organizations including the San Jose Police Department, Santa Clara County domestic abuse centers, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center and Family Supportive Housing.
During the 2018-19 year, the Screening Eyes Early Program screened over 500 preschool children at 17 schools to detect early signs of amblyopia (lazy eye) and poor eyesight, alerting parents and teachers to possible sight issues.
Each month, Assistance League members, often on a one-on-one basis, provide craft activities, bingo with small prizes, holiday foods and musical entertainment to residents at San Jose’s A Grace Sub Acute & Skilled Care facility and Stonebrook Convalescent Homes.
Trained ALSJ volunteers in the Screening Eyes Early (S.E.E.) program screen 3, 4 and 5 year-olds for early signs of possible vision disorders. Every year we train new screeners with a 3-hour class and a 3-hour practicum. Our volunteers are excited to play the “eye game” while supporting our preschoolers. The most important disorder we […]
Do you know some of the stories from San Jose’s past? Recently, the Assistance League of San Jose was entertained and educated by History San Jose’s performance of “Portraits of the Past”. As part of the League’s Fall Fundraiser at Congregation Shir Hadash in Los Gatos, more than 170 members and guests brunched on wonderful […]
Caring Hands, a committee of the Assistance League of San Jose (ALSJ), crochets, knits, and quilts blankets, hats and booties for donation to the newborn section of Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Each mother and child leaving VMC receives a layette packet including those items and a onesie, all tied with a decorative ribbon and […]
Each month Assistance League volunteers play bingo with the residents in the Activity Room at A Grace Subacute and Skilled Care. All enthusiastic players get two cards to play and can hardly wait for the thrill of shouting “Bingo”. Hapy cheers and whoops of holler go up for each person’s success. Everyone wins prizes and […]
To get ready for a spectacular Haunted House Halloween Party, the children at Family Supportive Housing (FSH) could choose a special fun costme. Thank you to Shawna and Jackie at Illusions Activewear of Campbell for loaning three rolling racks on which to hang the costumes. This local business has supported the FSH Costume Shop for […]
As of October 2019, 39 elementary schools from three districts happily received 7,000 uniforms from our Operation School Bell Uniform Program. Our January uniform distribution will include homeless children and middle school students along with the measured schools. Members and non-members worked 3,223 volunteer hours ordering, warehouse organizing, measuring students and delivering uniforms. Many hands […]
Volunteers from the Assist-a-Shelter program brought their first child enrichment program of 2019 to Family Supportive Housing of San Jose. About 40 people attended Happy Birds, enjoying the antics of beautiful trained parrots, a special treat for children and adults.
Over 60 members and guests enjoyed cooking and baking at this year’s Culinary Capers. Participants followed recipes for appetizers and desserts in members’ kitchens. Then everyone socialized over the home made treats and danced to music from the 50’s. We put the FUN in Fundraising!
Thank you to Barnes & Noble for organizing a book drive for ALSJ during the 2018 holiday season. We received 772 books which we were able to distribute among several of our philanthropic programs. The ten schools in the Readers Are Leaders program, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Family Supportive Housing and the Mother’s Reading Program […]
Our very own Gloria Cutshall has been honored with an award for community service from the Delta Kappa Gamma chapter of the southern San Francisco Bay area. DKG is an international society for women educators. It is wonderful that Gloria has been recognized for her many countless, selfless hours as a community volunteer. Congratulations!
We are grateful to Star One Credit Union for their continuing contributions to our chapter. So many of our programs and the community we serve will benefit from their generosity. Thank you again, Star One!
At the May regular meeting we raffled off two of Lynda Tomasello’s beautiful hand crocheted afghans. Thank you, Lynda for donating the afghans and congratulations to the winners, Sandy Gerhardt and Patsy Houston.
Bachrodt Elementary School, San Jose Unified School District, graciously thanked their ALSJ Readers Are Leaders with a surprise luncheon for spending time with the second and third graders sharing their love of reading. The Readers Are Leaders community service program visited 55 classrooms reading to 1,323 students and donating 2,380 books during the 2018-19 school […]
Lotus Preschool is so appreciative of the service of vision screening Assistance League of San Jose provides for their students through the community program of SEE (Screening Eyes Early). We have screened 535 preschoolers from 17 preschools. We referred 20 students to be seen by an eye doctor. So far nine students have visited an […]
We welcomed Erin Campos, Volunteer Program Supervisor at CityTeam Ministries, as our guest at the chapter’s March regular meeting. She spoke of the many volunteer programs CityTeam offers and thanked Assistance League of San Jose for all of the volunteer hours we have given sorting donations at their facility. Erin will conduct a tour of […]
Trained ALSJ volunteers in the Screening Eyes Early (S.E.E.) program screen 3, 4 and 5 year-olds for early signs of possible vision disorders. Every year we train new screeners with a 3-hour class and a 3-hour practicum. Our volunteers are excited to play the “eye game” while supporting our preschoolers. The most important disorder we […]
Do you know some of the stories from San Jose’s past? Recently, the Assistance League of San Jose was entertained and educated by History San Jose’s performance of “Portraits of the Past”. As part of the League’s Fall Fundraiser at Congregation Shir Hadash in Los Gatos, more than 170 members and guests brunched on wonderful […]
Caring Hands, a committee of the Assistance League of San Jose (ALSJ), crochets, knits, and quilts blankets, hats and booties for donation to the newborn section of Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Each mother and child leaving VMC receives a layette packet including those items and a onesie, all tied with a decorative ribbon and […]
Each month Assistance League volunteers play bingo with the residents in the Activity Room at A Grace Subacute and Skilled Care. All enthusiastic players get two cards to play and can hardly wait for the thrill of shouting “Bingo”. Hapy cheers and whoops of holler go up for each person’s success. Everyone wins prizes and […]
To get ready for a spectacular Haunted House Halloween Party, the children at Family Supportive Housing (FSH) could choose a special fun costme. Thank you to Shawna and Jackie at Illusions Activewear of Campbell for loaning three rolling racks on which to hang the costumes. This local business has supported the FSH Costume Shop for […]
As of October 2019, 39 elementary schools from three districts happily received 7,000 uniforms from our Operation School Bell Uniform Program. Our January uniform distribution will include homeless children and middle school students along with the measured schools. Members and non-members worked 3,223 volunteer hours ordering, warehouse organizing, measuring students and delivering uniforms. Many hands […]
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