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JLMN Provides $12,500 Scholarship for Embrella Foster Care Youth
Junior League of Montclair-Newark established centennial year based scholarships for young adults that recently aged out of foster care.
Education, advocacy, stability, productivity and supporting foster youth are all hallmarks of the Junior League of Montclair-Newark. This year, to honor and celebrate the League’s history of service to women, children and the Essex County community, the League committed to engage in 100 Good Deeds of service in Essex County. During these most unprecedented times, supporting young people, especially those who have aged out of foster care, with provisions for secondary education was most important to the League.
Through a community partnership with Embrella NJ, a not-for-profit organization that specializes in working with foster families, young people in foster care and those young adults who have recently aged out of foster care in NJ, the Junior League of Montclair-Newark established unique centennial year based scholarships to support the Embrella youth. The League eagerly agreed to provide both Academic Scholarships (“Margaret Campbell Harris Awards'') and Opportunity Grants (“Centennial Opportunity Awards”). The first of four award grants yielded 8 scholarships—5 Margaret Campbell Harris Awards and 3 Centennial Opportunity Awards totaling $12,500.
“The Junior League is thrilled and honored to be able to play a small part in supporting and enhancing the lives of these young people of Embrella NJ” reported JLMN President Heather LeClair.
About Embrella Foster Care
As a foster care nonprofit, we promote an enhanced understanding of foster care and serve as a catalyst for positive advances in the foster care system. Embrella provides services, support and training opportunities for foster, adoptive and kinship families, and others having the responsibility for and/or the interest in the well-being of children. We help youth achieve their educational dreams with scholarship programs and one-on-one foster adolescent coaching. https://www.embrella.org/
About Junior League Montclair-Newark (JLMN)
The JLMN is a nonprofit organization of trained volunteers. Through hands-on projects and partnerships, our members build a better community by promoting education, health and wellness, literacy and the arts for children at risk each year. Our service area includes the Essex County communities of Bloomfield, the Caldwells, Cedar Grove, Essex Fells, Glen Ridge, Irvington, Montclair, Newark and Verona. Other communities within Essex County may be considered for JLMN involvement on a case-by-case basis and with Board approval. https://www.jlmn.org/