Junior Auxiliary of Clarksdale

Junior Auxiliary of Clarksdale Junior Auxiliary of Clarksdale, MS is a non-profit, volunteer, service organization that serves the needs of children, youth and families in Coahoma County.

Junior Auxiliary is a national non-profit organization that encourages members to render charitable services which are beneficial to the general public, with particular emphasis on children. We are a part of the National Association of Junior Auxiliaries, which serves communities through 99 chapters in 8 southern states. As individuals and a chapter, we at JA of Clarksdale look for ways to improve

the lives of children by developing and implementing programs to meet emotional, physical, and educational needs. This is accomplished through community service projects in the health, welfare, civic, educational and cultural fields and by working closely with schools and other organizations in our community that help us identify needs and meet them.

Unfortunately, we will no longer be using this page. Please go like & follow our new page to stay up t...
08/01/2024

Unfortunately, we will no longer be using this page. Please go like & follow our new page to stay up to date! Thank you!

👑AEC 2024👑This weekend a few of our active members attended National Association of Junior Auxiliaries, Inc. Annual Educ...
04/29/2024

👑AEC 2024👑

This weekend a few of our active members attended National Association of Junior Auxiliaries, Inc. Annual Education Conference (AEC) in Memphis, TN! They attended workshops to prepare and find new ideas to serve our community for the upcoming year.
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🌟Congratulations to our 2024 scholarship winners!🌟We had the pleasure of hosting these seniors and their families to cel...
04/26/2024

🌟Congratulations to our 2024 scholarship winners!🌟

We had the pleasure of hosting these seniors and their families to celebrate with them yesterday evening. We believe each of them will go on to do great things and couldn’t be more proud to help them along the way.

Please join us in celebrating them.

Clarksdale High- Nyla Reid, attending University of MS- majoring in English.

Delta- Carson Casey- University of MS- psychology

Lee- Tatum Young- MSU- finance

Madison Palmer HS- Jaylen Watson (not pictured)- Coahoma community college- nursing

Happy JA Week! What is JA? Junior Auxiliary is a group of women who desire to make a lasting difference in their communi...
04/12/2024

Happy JA Week! What is JA? Junior Auxiliary is a group of women who desire to make a lasting difference in their communities by meeting the needs of its citizens, especially the children.

Ninety-one chapters all over the southeast develop and administer hands on projects that embody the organization’s slogan “Caring hearts. Helping hands. Changing lives.”

Happy JA Week! Junior Auxiliary’s slogan is “Caring hearts. Helping hands. Changing lives.” This slogan embodies what it...
04/11/2024

Happy JA Week! Junior Auxiliary’s slogan is “Caring hearts. Helping hands. Changing lives.” This slogan embodies what it means to be a JA member. Through our projects, God sends us to the hearts without a home and to lives without love. We are honored to get to be a part of this amazing organization which allows us the opportunity to serve the children in our community.
To learn about how to become part of JA of Clarksdale contact us by email at [email protected].

Happy JA Week! Junior Auxiliary has chosen to focus on “Disconnect to Reconnect-Break the cycle.” According to NAJA Pres...
04/10/2024

Happy JA Week! Junior Auxiliary has chosen to focus on “Disconnect to Reconnect-Break the cycle.” According to NAJA President Paige Spears, this new national focus “compels us all to prioritize quality time with our loved ones by putting aside the devices that have become ubiquitous in our daily lives. While they undoubtedly enhance our productivity, we often allow them to distract us from those who deserve our time most. Our national focus has opened the door for conversations and projects centered around reducing screen time, how to use social media responsibly and the struggles many children are facing with body image. These crucial conversations could not have come at a more appropriate time as our youth find themselves with more access to technology every day.”
We encourage projects that are centered around the National Focus to ensure we are addressing issues relevant to the children we serve. To learn about how to become part of JA of Clarksdale contact by email at [email protected].

Happy JA Week! Junior Auxiliary is all about the children of our communities! This year NAJA President Paige Spears chos...
04/09/2024

Happy JA Week! Junior Auxiliary is all about the children of our communities! This year NAJA President Paige Spears chose “Born for Such a Time as This” as her theme and we have taken her challenge to examine the reason why we serve the children of Coahoma and Quitman counties. To learn about how to become part of JA contact us by email at [email protected].

As we kick off JA Week 2024 we would like to share with you how our organization began over 82 years ago.Our history ori...
04/09/2024

As we kick off JA Week 2024 we would like to share with you how our organization began over 82 years ago.
Our history originally started in the midst of The Great Depression, in 1935. Two doctors in Greenville, MS, Dr. Montgomery and Dr. Gamble, contacted the society editor of the Delta Democrat Times, Louise Crump, for help. These doctors saw daily the plight of Greenville’s underprivileged children that were living in back alleys and on shanty boats on the river. They asked Ms. Crump to solicit the aid of her friends in providing food, clothing, and toys, along with transportation to the doctors’ and dentists’ offices. She contacted nine women who met with her in her home. They assessed themselves $5 each to begin their work. They got businesses and other individuals in Greenville to provide services and goods. Local dentist and doctors donated their time, and membership grew.
Now, this is where NAJA history begins. The Greenville women began to realize that there were other groups of women similar to theirs in other towns, and by 1940 they began to meet with some of them around the Mississippi and Arkansas Delta. They decided to join forces and, using the Junior League (which had already been started) as a model, they drew up a constitution on November 14, 1941 with Mrs. Crump as the first President of NAJA. The Charter Chapters were: McComb, Greenville, Greenwood, Leland, Laurel, Meridian, Vicksburg and West Point, MS and Pine Bluff and Russellville, AR.
Today there are 91 Chapters with over 17,000 members in seven states in the South. Chapters find needs that are not being met in their communities and develop projects to meet those needs. To learn about how to become part of JA of Clarksdale contact us by email at [email protected].

👑 Just a reminder to have all the little princesses ready for their tea party this Sunday! This event was a big hit last...
04/05/2024

👑 Just a reminder to have all the little princesses ready for their tea party this Sunday! This event was a big hit last year and our Crown Club girls do a fabulous job! 💗👑💗

With Charity Ball behind us, we would again like to thank all of our sponsors who helped make this event possible. We co...
03/28/2024

With Charity Ball behind us, we would again like to thank all of our sponsors who helped make this event possible. We could not serve our community without your support!! 🩷

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Clarksdale, MS
38614

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Monday 10am - 4pm
Tuesday 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm

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