{"id":10844,"date":"2022-01-01T23:55:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T05:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/?p=10844"},"modified":"2022-01-01T23:55:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T05:55:07","slug":"volunteers-for-youth-justice-january-2022-give-away-the-plate-recipient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2022\/01\/01\/volunteers-for-youth-justice-january-2022-give-away-the-plate-recipient\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers for Youth Justice &#8212; January 2022 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/VolunteersForYouthJustice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10845\" src=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/VolunteersForYouthJustice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/VolunteersForYouthJustice.jpg 511w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/VolunteersForYouthJustice-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 85vw, 511px\" \/><\/a>Our monthly Give Away the Plate contributions go to a local organization that best exemplifies our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uua.org\/beliefs\/what-we-believe\/principles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unitarian Universalist principles and values<\/a> through their work in our community.<\/p>\n<p>Our January 2022 Give Away the Plate recipient is <a href=\"https:\/\/vyjla.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volunteers for Youth Justice<\/a> and will go toward our sponsorship of their annual <a href=\"https:\/\/vyjla.org\/gumbo-gladiators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gumbo Gladiators fundraiser<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers for Youth Justice annually recruits, trains and supports hundreds of volunteers to provide services for at-risk children.<\/p>\n<p>This includes <a href=\"https:\/\/vyjla.org\/casa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Court-Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) volunteers<\/a> as well as mentors for their <a href=\"https:\/\/vyjla.org\/gems-gents-youth-mentoring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gems and Gents program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other programs include <a href=\"https:\/\/vyjla.org\/tasc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Truancy Assessment Service Center<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/vyjla.org\/tbri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trust-Based Relational Intervention<\/a> for children who have experienced trauma. These are just a few of the programs offered by Volunteers for Youth Justice to serve community youth in crisis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two ways to donate:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Online<\/strong> &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsuu.breezechms.com\/give\/online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Go to our donation site using this link<\/a>.\u00a0 If you are paying your pledge, select &#8220;2022 Pledges&#8221; and enter that amount for your pledge contribution.\u00a0 Then select &#8220;Collection Plate&#8221; to give the amount you would like to give to the Volunteers for Youth Justice.\u00a0 All online collection plate contributions for the month of January 2022 will go to Volunteers for Youth Justice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Offline<\/strong> &#8212; Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA\u00a0 71106.\u00a0 Please put &#8220;Volunteers for Youth Justice&#8221; on the memo line of the check if\u00a0 you want to have 100% of this check go to the Volunteers for Youth Justice.\u00a0 If you want less than 100% of the check to go to the Volunteers for Youth Justice, please put the amount you want going to the Volunteers for\u00a0 Youth Justice on the memo line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our monthly Give Away the Plate contributions go to a local organization that best exemplifies our Unitarian Universalist principles and values through their work in our community. Our January 2022 Give Away the Plate recipient is Volunteers for Youth Justice and will go toward our sponsorship of their annual Gumbo Gladiators fundraiser. Volunteers for Youth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2022\/01\/01\/volunteers-for-youth-justice-january-2022-give-away-the-plate-recipient\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Volunteers for Youth Justice &#8212; January 2022 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fundraising","category-social-justice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10847,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844\/revisions\/10847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}