Happy Valentine's Day - Salina Area United Way

Happy Valentine's Day, United Way Partner

Whether you are a donor, volunteer, business or community partner, all you've done to make our community a great place to live, we are truly grateful. Your generosity helps us to achieve our mission of strengthening our community.

With love,
Your friends at Salina Area United Way

Annual Meeting, Leap Day, February 29th

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Healthy Communities Healthy Youth Forum

February 10, 11:30 a.m. Masonic Center

The Salina Area United Way will be hosting three community forums to promote its mission of strengthening our community. The first one, February 10th, will focus on Healthy Communities and Healthy Youth. Each forum will be held at the Masonic Center at 11:30 and is open to the public. Lunch will be provided to those who attend. Guest Speakers include Michelle Peck with Big Brothers Big Sisters, and Les Sperling from Central Kansas Foundation. Healthy Communities and Healthy Youth is sponsored by the Mowery Clinic. For additional questions please feel free to call us at 785-827-1312 or click on the link above.

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United Way National 2-1-1 Month

Working Toward Success

As part of the Salina Area United Way S.M.A.R.T Community Improvement Grant Goal, the Boy Scouts concentrate on middle school students in an effort to ensure they attend school, are engaged by their experiences at school and make appropriate academic progress. Boy Scouts hope to improve life-skills of youth in the community and prepare them for adulthood by increasing the number of skills developed, increase youth served by 4% and increase the number of merit badges given to youth.

Gary Shoemaker shared that Boy Scouts developed a young shy boy with a learning disability and great fear of water into a young man who now leads other young scouts.

Girl Scouts measure their S.M.A.R.T Community Improvement Grant Goal by increasing participation by 50 girls in each school. Along side Boy Scouts, the Girls Scouts focus on

middle school attendance, engagement and appropriate academic progress.

Adria Smith shared how her experience in Girl Scouts has changed her life like the experiences she had in a trip to the business leadership Institute in New York. She expresses much appreciation for this organization and the leadership and people skills she received, because it helped her become the young woman she is today.

A Personal Story Erin Eustice

Last night was a Daisy Scout meeting. We were learning part of the Girl Scout Law that deal with being courageous and strong. Part of what we did was draw pictures. I asked the girls to draw a picture of a girl that is courageous or strong. I told them it could be anybody-family member, friend, teacher, doctor, whoever.

A short time later and with very little discussion amongst them, their pictures were complete. I asked each of them to tell us about their picture. Each Daisy had drawn a picture of herself being courageous and strong. Standing up to bullies, making new friends, swimming underwater and jumping high on a trampoline were the pictures the Daisies had drawn starring themselves.

I did not realize the magnitude of this until I was driving home. At the age of 5, they believe they are courageous and strong. My new goal is to help them retain that feeling. Five years, ten, twenty and more from now, I want these girls to still think of themselves when asked the same question. Girl Scouts really is building courage, confidence and character to make the world a better place, and that is just 1 reason why I LIVE UNITED!

Erin Eustice

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