Community Partnership

Fortress Youth Development Center - UPLIFT Parental Involvement Program

Foster Child Advocate Service for Tarrant County (FOCAS)

Foster Child Advocate Service for Tarrant County (FOCAS) provides trained court-appointed volunteers to act as advocates and fact finders for children in foster care. JLFW volunteers are trained in interviewing skills, interpersonal communication skills, child abuse, and neglect dynamics; they serve as strong links between the child and the juvenile court system.

H.O.P.E. Farm

Historic Preservation Council for Tarrant County

The Historic Preservation Council for Tarrant County participates in and contributes to a coalition that exchanges ideas, shares information, and coordinates unified action in the area of historic preservation. JLFW volunteers publish a newsletter and participate as survey researchers, workshop coordinators, and office assistants.

Immunization Outreach/Immunization Collaboration

In 1991, the Junior League of Fort Worth established a community-wide immunization program to provide vaccinations to children at low or no cost to families. JLFW partnered with the Tarrant County Health Department and Cook Fort Worth Children's Medical Center to hold immunization clinics are several area malls. League members organized a media campaign to promote the event and helped staff the clinics. In the first year of the program, over 2300 children received vaccinations.

NICU Helping Hands

Opening Doors for Women in Need (ODWIN)

Poison Education

Through the Poison Education program, League volunteers present a Mr. Yuk puppet show for day care centers, kindergartens, preschools, and nursery schools to educate children about poison prevention.

Project Charlie

Project LEAD

Rockin' Mama Program

JLFW volunteers provide care to premature infants at Cook Children's Medical Center

Safehaven of Tarrant County

Safehaven’s mission is to end domestic violence through safety, support, prevention, and social change. JLFW volunteers assist with a local three-day camp for kids ages 6-12 that includes horseback riding, canoeing, roasting marshmallows, and other outdoors activities combined with structured therapeutic activities to help the healing process for participating children. Volunteers help children escape the isolation of past experiences and bond with peers and adults in an invigorating natural setting.