Done in a Day & Done in a Meeting

The goal of JLCU Done In a Day (DIAD) is to respond to the volunteer needs of local nonprofit organizations.  The goal of JLCU Done In a Meeting (DIAM) is to respond to the needs for donated items for local nonprofit organizations. Both of these community outreach opportuntities are specifically for programs and projects related to JLCU position statements  (child protection and welfare, families, health, hunger, literacy, shelter, school preparedness, voluntarism, and women).

If your organization has events that would require volunteer assistance, go here to fill out the DIAD request form.  If your organization has a need for donated items, go here to fill our the DIAM request form.

If you have questions, please go here to reach out to JLCU with our our DIAD & DIAM question form.

Bright Starts

Junior League of Champaign-Urbana has partnered with Urbana Early Childhood School (UECS) and  Champaign County Head Start/Early Head Start in the first local community effort to reach families who had not experienced preschool education and environment.

Join us online for monthly preschool lessons in basic numbers, letters, listening skills, peer interaction, and emotional development needed to prepare for kindergarten.

Junior League Bright Starts provides monthly preschool academic instruction and social-emotional skill building to children who are on a preschool waiting list and provide their parents/guardians with ideas to reinforce these skills at home. The program includes the whole family by providing dinner at the start of each session, and educating adults on what their children are doing each session, as well as receiving ideas and materials to use in continuing the lessons at home.

Children receive exposure to kindergarten preparatory skills such as fine motor skills, letter and number identification, listening skills, peer interaction, and emotional development. Parents receive instruction on skill development and at-home activities and materials to support what their children learn in the classroom. Both children and parents are introduced to the classroom setting, gain exposure to kindergarten skills, get tools to continue learning and developing those skills, and strengthen the parent-child relationship.

*Bright Starts has moved to a virtual format for the 20-21 school year.*