Summer Leadership Conference 2011

Join us for our third annual Summer Leadership Conference running July 11 – 15 from 9am - 3pm.  This conference is for youth 15 -18years. Find out what it takes to operate a non-profit organization. Learn from current volunteers and hear about their experiences working with the Red Cross. Learn valuable skills in leadership, teamwork, communications and project planning that you can use long after the conference is over. To register please complete the Registration form shown below and then mail it to our Chapter. For further information contact Marisa Hottat at 908 273-2076.

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Community Service Projects for Youth

Adapted Aquatics

Adapted Aquatics is a swimming program for children and adults with physical, mental, emotional or neurological disorders. American Red Cross-certified volunteers from the Colonial Crossroads Chapter have been teaching swimming skills to these special needs clients for over 40 years.

Service to Armed Forces

• Touch of Home: Collect items for homecoming and outgoing troops. Click here to see a list of items (pdf).
• Veteran Hospital Projects: Make craft items: birthday and holiday cards, gift tags, grooming kits, writing kits, bookmarks and more!
• Production Ladies: Collect new or gently work bath towels for use at Lyon's Hospital. These towels are sewn by Red Cross volunteers into bibs for veterans.

Please contact the chapter before beginning any project for veterans as there is sometimes a hold on items being shipped overseas.

Blood Services

• Host a Blood Drive: Help the thousands of patients who need blood each day by sponsoring a blood drive.
• Thank you!: Make thank you cards for blood donors to be given out at blood drives.

Disaster Services

• Support a disaster: Collect necessary items for a disaster response. Wear a disaster vest and receive a tour of the ERV. Collect any of the following items:
  • DECAF coffee
  • Paper towels
  • Paper plates
  • “Picnic packs” of silverware/napkins (possibly at Costco)
  • Stirrers
  • Sugar packets/equal
  • Coffee mate
  • Napkins
  • Heavy duty large garbage bags
• After a Fire: Distribute fire safety information in neighborhoods that have recently experienced a fire.

Health and Safety Services

• "Dress Up" Health and Safety: Collect new or gently used "onesies" for our 3 to 6 month old manikins.
• First Aid Kit Collection and Assembly: Make first aid kits for the classroom or for those in need.
• Heart Healthy Valentines: Design health heart valentines with heart safety tips.
• Read All About It!: Make bulletin boards teaching Red Cross services.

International Services

• One World Connected: An e-mail exchange program with Red Cross units worldwide.
• Measles Initiative: One million children die each year from measles in Africa. Help raise funds to vaccinate at-risk African children for less than $1.00 per child.
• For further information go to www.measlesinitiative.com

Fundraisers

• Car Wash: Hold a car wash in our chapter houses' driveways to collect money for our programs, such as transportation for seniors or local disaster response.