PIVOT

Junior League volunteers participate in a variety of activities with the youth at Pivot, A Turning Point for Youth to encourage healthy habits and life skills for those youth who are staying at Pivot’s Family Junction shelter and its Tiny Homes community. JLOC Pivot volunteers were led by Project Manager Edith Gilyard.

This year, JLOC volunteers hosted a shopping and budgeting event where the youth, ages 12-17, were given money to buy a variety of purchased and donated items. Volunteers were able to share education about budgeting, taxes on goods and saving for purchases. JLOC also led an impactful activity about long-term goal setting. Volunteers shared steps on accomplishing goals and heard from the youth about some of their goals for the future and their plans to make those goals a reality.

JLOC also developed a way to support Pivot's growing Tiny Homes community by making donations of toiletry items and some education about hygiene habits and life skills. Pivot’s Tiny Homes community provides affordable and stable housing for young adults in crisis by supporting them through their unique and vulnerable needs. Pivot helps its young adult residents find access to services that will allow them to develop skills to become self-reliant adults with a plan to achieve long-term success.