Current Community Projects
Junior League of Riverside members donate hundreds of hours each year through hands-on work on our projects. In addition, JLR is proud to offer financial support through Community Outreach Funds to other nonprofit agencies in our region.
The fitRiverside program, a project designed to fight childhood health issues with free family fitness. “With childhood obesity at an all-time high across the nation,” stated Riverside mayor Ron Loveridge, “the Junior League’s fitRiverside program is an invaluable resource for children and families to improve their health in a fun and supportive environment.” The fitRiverside project also includes fitDays; free family boot camp fitness program held at Bobby Bonds Sports Park the 2nd Saturday of each Month, a fitForward program with local schools to encourage daily exercise, the annual health and nutrition fitFair, and an activity registration and search engine on the fitRiverside website. For more information, go to: www.fitriverside.org
Junior League of Riverside hosted it's 6th Annual Health Fair as part of the Eastside Community Egg Hunt & Spring Fair on April 16th at Bobby Bonds Sports Park in Riverside. The fitRiverside Nutrition Center showcased multiple community chefs sharing their healthy food secrets! Demonstrators worked in the fitRiverside Nutrition Center sharing preparation tips for easy, inexpensive, and healthy meals that tasted wonderful. 1000 free lunches were provided by JLR to registered participants after they observe a healthy cooking demonstration at the event. For more information on fitRiverside, go to: www.fitriverside.org
SPAC
State Public Affairs Committee
Junior League of Riverside has a long history of high-level involvement with state government through our work with SPAC. SPAC is a collaboration of Junior Leagues from throughout the state who work together to support legislation related to our focus area.
The State Public Affairs Committee (SPAC) for the Junior Leagues of California is a non-partisan education and advocacy organization charged with promoting volunteerism and legislation favorable to the community projects of the sixteen (16) Junior Leagues that SPAC represents. The entire advocacy efforts of SPAC are targeted to legislation within the following four focus areas, which reflect the focus areas of SPAC’s member Junior Leagues:
Education: SPAC is committed to ensuring that all children and young adults receive educational opportunities that are developmentally appropriate, increase academic achievement, and lead to workplace marketability.
Family Support: SPAC is committed to advocating for programs and policies that promote the physical and emotional well-being of all families.
Health: SPAC is committed to advocating for better access to quality health care and prevention programs that will improve mental and physical health of our community members.
Violence Prevention: SPAC is committed to addressing the impact of violence in our communities through prevention, intervention and education.
Since 1971, SPAC has represented the interests of its member Junior Leagues to policy makers at the state and local levels. The collective voice of this non-partisan group represents more that thirteen thousand (13,000) voting women in over sixteen (16) communities throughout California. For over thirty (30) years, SPAC has been successful in sponsoring and supporting many pieces of important legislation including: (i) legislation establishing the "Children's Bicycle Helmet Law", (ii) legislation enhancing penalties for committing domestic violence in the presence of a minor, (iii) legislation establishing the "Kids License Plate" to fund child abuse prevention and injury, and (iv) legislation providing breast cancer treatment for uninsured women and, in 2010 thanks in large part to the Junior Leagues of California State Public Affairs Committee, May is now Perinatal Depression Awareness Month in California.
The SPAC delegation is comprised of two members from each of the following California Junior Leagues: Bakersfield, Fresno, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Monterey County, Napa-Sonoma, Oakland-East-Bay, Orange County, Palo Alto - Mid Peninsula, Pasadena, Riverside, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Barbara. The advocacy activities of SPAC delegates include: (i) researching, analyzing and drafting legislation, (ii) advocating for community programs and taking positions on legislation, (iii) leveraging support for legislation by building coalitions with other community groups, (iv) meeting with legislators, (v) testifying at committee hearings, and (vi) hosting three annual statewide conferences to train SPAC delegates and coordinate advocacy efforts.
For more information, go to the California SPAC website at www.CalSPAC.org
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