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JLMN Hosts Virtual Book Club - Tina Kelley Homelessness to Hope
JLMN Virtual Book Club Meeting is Honored To Host Poet and Journalist Tina Kelley Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope
There are 1.6 million young people who are deemed homeless each year in North America. As we go on about our daily lives, that seems like an unbelievable number but it's real. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Ms. Tina Kelley is bringing light to the subject via her book Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope which provides a dramatic look into the lives of these children.
To aid this deeper introspection into homeless, the Junior League of Montclair-Newark (“JLMN”) will host a virtual book club meeting featuring author Ms. Tina Kelley as guest speaker this coming Thursday, Jan. 7 th at 7.30PM to discuss her book: Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope. Registration is open by clicking here JLMN Host Tina Kelley
Tina Kelley is a journalist, poet, and author who is on the staff of Covenant House, where she co-authored “Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope.” Ms. Kelley is also a 10+ year veteran of The New York Times. She shares a 2002 staff Pulitzer Prize for “Portraits of Grief” which featured profiles of victims of the attacks on September 11, 2001. Most recently Ms. Kelley received the 2018 Maplewood Literary Award and published her fourth book of poetry, “Rise Wildly.”
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The JLMN is a supportive dedicated organization of women whose mission is to improve the community through trained volunteers. Their reach is magnified by being part of the international Association of Junior League International - AJLI. Moving youth from homelessness to home has always been a key focus for the local Junior League Montclair-Newark and this book addresses practical issues that local and national groups can use to help address and reduce this situation dramatically because it provides practical suggestions, opportunities for dialog, action and advocacy. You are invited to join this virtual book club and learn more about this very important subject. To join the Zoom, please register at: https://www.jlmn.org/?nd=vms_p...
About Junior League Montclair Newark- JLMN
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The JLMN is a supportive, amazing organization of women whose mission is to promote voluntarism, develop the potential of women and improve the community through trained volunteers. Our reach is magnified by the training that we receive with the JLMN, which we then bring to every other organization that we work with in the future. Our members include business owners, working mothers, professional women and stay-at-home moms from diverse backgrounds – and all are volunteers working together to build a better community.
About Association of Junior League International - AJLI
While the local Junior League Montclair-Newark is focused on promoting voluntarism and developing the potential of women & improving the surrounding Montclair- Newark community. It’s parent organization, the Association of Junior League International (https://www.ajli.org/ ) was founded in 1901 by social activist Mary Harriman, The Junior League has evolved into one of the oldest, largest, and most effective women’s volunteer organizations in the world, encompassing more than 125,000 women in over 290 Leagues in four countries.