Assist-a-Shelter 2023-2024 Accomplishments – Family Supportive Housing Family Fun!

In the 2023-2024 year, Assist-a-Shelter volunteers brought four family enrichment activities to share with the children and adults. 155 children and parents enjoyed🧑🏻‍🔬Mad Science,🦜 Happy Birds, 🎃 Halloween Costume…

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Thank You from Family Supportive Housing

Dear ALSJ Team, Family Supportive Housing is so grateful 🙏🏼to you for your generous donation of 12 quilts! Your donation helps our families know that people care about them.🥰 Your…

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Assist-a-Shelter 2023-2024 Accomplishments – Family Supportive Housing Dinners and Cookies

In 2023-2024, as part of our Assist-a-Shelter program, 79 members participated in making 720 dinners and 90 members baked 840 dozen cookies for Family Supportive Housing!❤️ Can you image making…

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Our New Members

Our chapter’s “Getting To Know You” party was a resounding success! 🎉 New members and board members mingled together, enjoying games, exchanging ideas, and sharing heartfelt discussions about what…

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Senior Bingo 2023-2024 Accomplishments

Members who participate in Senior Bingo are delighted to share 🎁 prizes, a 😊 smile and friendly games of Bingo with the clients. In 2023-2024, volunteers conducted 10 Bingo…

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Screening Eyes Early 2023-2024 Accomplishments

The AL of San Jose Screening Eyes Early program was busy in 2023-2024. 44 volunteers screened 498 children in 17 preschools, referring 27 of them to doctors for further…

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Packing Food at CityTeam

Our volunteers always have a delightful time filling bags with food items to help those in need at CityTeam. Food packing takes place three times a month and each time…

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Selecting Books for the New School Year

Readers Are Leaders volunteers are busy selecting books 📚to read to 2nd and 3rd grade San Jose students during the 2024-25 school year. Two books 📘📙will be read each month,…

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Hug-a-Bear 2023-2024 Accomplishments

In 2023-2024, the Hug-a-Bear program delivered 800 bears to five San Jose agencies: Children’s Advocacy Center, Family Supportive Housing, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Parisi House on the Hill…

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Did You Know?

35 years ago in 1988, AL of San Jose members began furnishing bears to adults and children in crisis. This was our 3rd program and it was named Operation…

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