Historic Projects Quick List
Filling Someone’s Need
The following community projects represent a listing of the partnerships and the trained volunteer resources that the Junior League of Lafayette has provided since 1957. Find detailed information on many of these historic projects here.
The 50’s-Volunteer Programs Included: Music For Youth The Lafayette Parish Public Library Lafayette Museum Garden Tours Lafayette Day Nursery Southwest Louisiana Rehabilitation Center Charity Hospital Mental Health Lafayette Sanitarium |
The 80’s-Volunteer Programs Included: Bright New Worlds Art Program Nature Studies “In League with Lafayette” television program Substance Abuse Awareness and Educational Programs Suitcase Exhibits-Lafayette Planetarium Kids on the Block puppets Hospice Pediatric Program Faith House Truman Enrichment REACH America Peer Program Children’s Shelter Lafayette C.A.R.E.S. St. Joseph’s Diner |
The 60’s-Volunteer Programs Included: Puppet Theatre “Dite Moi” – French T.V. Program Working with legally blind children Art for Youth Leonard Bernstein Youth Concert Crippled Children’s Clinic Drug Education Program with USL Tuberculosis Hospital Charity Hospital Layettes Dance For Youth Charity Hospital Pediatric Ward Lafayette Museum Southwest Louisiana Rehabilitation Center |
The 90’s-Volunteer Programs Included: Arts Council Support Team Child Care Connection Children’s Museum Community Crossings Family Tree Counseling First Steps Homework Hotline Junior Quiz Bowl Junior Symphony Kids on the Block Recycling Foundation Teen Court Volunteer Center |
The 70’s-Volunteer Programs Included: Lafayette Juvenile and Young Adult Program Community Artificial Kidney Drive Johnny Scott Learning Disabilities Seminar Historic Preservation Pollux House Musical Therapy-Nursing Homes Junior Great Books Acadian Village Docents CPR Parenting Handicapped Children-Project Hand Retired Senior Volunteer Program Child Abuse Awareness Program Lafayette Natural History Museum and Planetarium |
The 2000’s-Volunteer Programs Included: SMILES Maison de Mere Opportunity Knocks NO FEAR NO FUTURE Young-At-Heart Spelling Bee Acadiana Youth University Art Museum ($75,000 donation) Boys and Girls Clubs Faith House Healing House Junior Quiz Bowl Meals on Wheels Girls on the Run Jump with Jill |