Leadership Salinas Valley
Class XXIII
Project Listing

Baby Surrender - In Loving Arms
A project related to the California Newborn Abandonment Law that allows women to surrender a newborn within three days to a hospital without legal consequences. The project was done in conjunction with Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare system and included stickers placed in agricultural areas, especially portable toilet facilities. This project received local and state recognition

Coalition for Women in Politics
A project to encourage women to run for political office. This project included a panel of local women community leaders who gave advice and leadership information about political challenges in our community

Leaders for Lunch
This was a project where brown bag lunches were sold and delivered to local businesses as a fund-raiser to assist other projects. Any additional monies not used by class projects was donated to the Chamber Foundation to assist with scholarship monies for future participants in need of financial assistance

North Monterey County Readers
This project was an extension of an idea from Class XXI to promote literacy amongst elementary school students. The first project was done at Roosevelt Elementary in Salinas and this project was done at an elementary school in North Monterey County. The group read to the students and was extremely well received by both students and faculty.

Outreach Second Chance
This was a multi-media project for Second Chance Family and Youth Services to provide marketing tools to broaden community awareness about the services and resources for gang intervention and prevention

Packages of Care
Backpacks assembled for Child Protective Services, Kinship Center and Mentor Moms. Backpacks contained toiletries, food coupons, clothes, school materials, etc.

Treats for Troops
This was a project to provide military encouragement care packages. The coordinators collected donations which were assembled and sent to local soldiers currently serving in the armed forces particularly the Middle East. The packages included a letter of gratitude written by another class members' elementary school students thanking the military for their service. The project team assembled and mailed over 50 packages.