{"id":15743,"date":"2025-04-06T01:04:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T06:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/?p=15743"},"modified":"2025-04-06T01:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T06:04:05","slug":"volunteers-for-youth-justice-april-2025-give-away-the-plate-recipient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2025\/04\/06\/volunteers-for-youth-justice-april-2025-give-away-the-plate-recipient\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers for Youth Justice &#8212; April 2025 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vyjla.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15749 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Apr2025GiveAwayThePlate.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1144\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Apr2025GiveAwayThePlate.png 1144w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Apr2025GiveAwayThePlate-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Apr2025GiveAwayThePlate-1024x572.png 1024w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Apr2025GiveAwayThePlate-768x429.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to a community organization doing the work that best embodies our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uua.org\/beliefs\/what-we-believe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unitarian Universalist values<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the month of April 2025, we choose <a href=\"https:\/\/vyjla.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volunteers for Youth Justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As their mission statement says, Volunteers for Youth Justice seeks to &#8220;provide a caring community for children, youth, and families in crisis&#8221; and they do so through many programs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vyjla.org\/casa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CASA Volunteers (Court Appointed Special Advocates for children in foster care)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vyjla.org\/fins-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FINS program (Families in Need of Services)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vyjla.org\/tbri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI\u00ae)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vyjla.org\/tasc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Truancy Assessment Service Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vyjla.org\/jump-start\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jump Start Program<\/a> and the youth services provided by them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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;2025 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 Volunteers for Youth Justice and then put &#8220;GATP APR 2025&#8221; or &#8220;Volunteers for Youth Justice&#8221; in the comment section.\u00a0 All online collection plate contributions for the month of April 2025 will go to the 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 your check go to Volunteers for Youth Justice.\u00a0 If you want less than 100% of your check to go to Volunteers for Youth Justice, please put the amount you want going to Volunteers for Youth Justice on the memo line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to a community organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist values. For the month of April 2025, we choose Volunteers for Youth Justice. As their mission statement says, Volunteers for Youth Justice seeks to &#8220;provide a caring community for children, youth, and families &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2025\/04\/06\/volunteers-for-youth-justice-april-2025-give-away-the-plate-recipient\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Volunteers for Youth Justice &#8212; April 2025 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-15743","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\/15743","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=15743"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15750,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15743\/revisions\/15750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}