Mentors and mentees sign Christmas cards for residents.
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Thursday, December 13, 2018 4:00 AM
The Montgomery County Youth Service Bureau, JUMP program, cares about the residents at Williamsburg Nursing home. For the past three years the JUMP program, mentors and mentees, have been making care packages and handing them out at Williamsburg Nursing home while singing Christmas Carols.
“The residents at Williamsburg love the attention and getting to talk to the children in the program,” stated Jill Hampton, JUMP Program Manager. “The JUMP program tries to do one or two monthly group activities per year that allow the kids to give back to the community in some small way. Not only is this important for kids to learn to do, but they also really enjoy the good feeling that comes with helping others.”
The JUMP program met at the Crawfordsville Public library to make the care packages. The grant money to make these gifts came from the Youth As Resources fund after two JUMP mentees, Destiny and Madissen, wrote the grant to apply for the funds. The care packages consisted of the following: two homemade crafts, a fleece holiday blanket, socks with rubber grips and some hand crème. They also included a Christmas card signed by all the mentors and mentees that attended the event.