Building Connections

Building Connections will focus on improving the relationship between caregiver and child by developing positive and supportive communications and modifying behavior patterns through teaching effective discipline and child management skills. The Junior League of El Paso, Inc. will work with the El Paso Child Guidance Center and young children, ages 2-7 years, who experience emotional and behavioral problems (e.g. temper tantrums, hitting, kicking, not following directions) stemming from exposure to traumatic events such as physical abuse, sexual abuse, and domestic violence.

Ending the Silence

Ending the Silence is a collaboration between the Junior League of El Paso, Inc. and National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) to introduce NAMI Ending the Silence an engaging presentation that helps audience members learn about the warning signs of mental health conditions and what steps to take if you or a loved one are showing symptoms of a mental illness. This program will focus specifically on the high school age group to target the stigma of mental health issue by helping to enrich students’ knowledge and attitudes toward mental health conditions and toward seeking help.

Music Therapy for the Elderly

Music Therapy for the Elderly enriches the lives of older adults at nursing homes and adult day care centers by providing therapeutic musical performances that foster social contact, improve cognitive ability, and nurture skills, through music reminiscent of their youth. This is the Junior League of El Paso’s longest running Community Project and has been touching the lives of El Pasoans for the past 27 years.

Sensory Junction

Sensory Junction is a partnership between the Junior League of El Paso, Inc. and Texas Tech Health Sciences Center El Paso which will assist the Autism community in El Paso by building and designing a sensory friendly waiting area in the facility’s pediatrics office. The committee will work with Dr. Anacani Fonseca, who has a specialty in developmental pediatrics, to grow and develop the pediatric developmental services at Texas Tech and throughout the community. The focus will also include providing families with tools to assist them with their child’s Autism diagnosis.