Our speaker this Friday will be Jessica Silvey, Co-Founder and CEO of Care Package Inbound,
where she helps lead the organization’s mission to provide dignity, comfort, and hope to youth entering foster care. She is also a full-time employee of CPI, dedicating her professional efforts entirely to advancing the organization’s work and impact.
Through her years as a childcare professional, Jessica has worked closely with foster families, low-income families, and single mothers throughout the Kansas City area. Those relationships gave her a firsthand look at the challenges many families face and created a desire to find meaningful ways for her community to help.
As Jessica began talking with local foster families, she became increasingly aware of the needs surrounding children entering the foster care system and how difficult those first hours and days can be. What began as a desire to help families around her eventually became part of the vision for Care Package Inbound.
October will mark the start of the Lenexa Fire Department's Fire Safety Trailer visits at Lenexa-area elementary schools in honor of Fire Safety Month.
Below is an Online Sign-Up with the preliminary schedule of volunteer slots (it includes the school, date, and a roughly 9-11:30am shift and 11:30am-2pm shift), available at:
As we get closer to October and schools finalize the actual class schedules, Ashley Sherard will provide more detailed schedules for each school visit.
We have secured a date to build a handicap ramp with HopeBUILDERS. We will be building the ramp along with Shawnee Rotary and Shawnee Mission Northwest Interact. To sign-up please CLICK HERE
No experience is necessary. All supplies will be provided except gloves. Please bring your own gloves.
You will need to create an account in their volunteer system if you don't already have one, and then you can sign up. If anyone has problems, please email Jill at HopeBUILDERS
Last Friday, Bill McCollum mentioned that he has been in contact with Rosehill School and they are in need of donations of new or used sports balls to be used at their school. Please bring the balls to our Friday meetings or contact Bill McCollum.
Our Sergeant-At-Arms, Fred Spears, is starting a Book Drive to benefit the Learn to Read program, whose representatives spoke at our Club several weeks ago.
The drive will run through October. Fred will have a collection bucket at our upcoming meetings for new or gently used books. Information sheets with a preferred book list will be available on the tables at this week's meeting. If you prefer to make a monetary contribution to purchase books, donations will also be accepted that way. Thank you for your support.
Fred stated that he would like to have a pile of books 20 feet high!
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