ABCT 57th Annual Convention Banner Cultivating Joy with CBT Seattle 2023

ABCT Day of Service

 

Consistent with this year’s convention theme, Opening Our Doors: Inspiring Community Engagement, Advocacy, and Innovation to Advance CBT, the inaugural ABCT Day of Service project allows ABCT members to connect with and engage in service-learning projects that give back to our 2024 convention host city of Philadelphia. This year’s ABCT Day of Service will focus on supporting the Cradles to Crayons nonprofit organization!

 

Cradles to Crayons: Vision, Mission, and Model

Cradles to Crayons provides children from birth through age 12, living in homeless or low-income situations, with the essential items they need to thrive – at home, at school and at play. Cradles to Crayons supplies these items free of charge by engaging and connecting communities. One day every child will have the essentials they need to feel safe, warm, ready to learn, and valued. Cradles to Crayons’ efficient and effective three-step model provides kids with the essentials they need, free of charge. This enables the organization to engage communities that have, connecting them with communities that need:

  • New and nearly new children’s items are collected through grassroots community drives and corporate donations.
  • Donations are then processed and packaged by volunteers in the Cradles to Crayon Warehouse warehouse—The Giving Factory®.
  • Packages from The Giving Factory are distributed to local children — through a collaborative network of diverse service partners.

2024 ABCT Day of Service Opportunities

Volunteers may participate in the ABCT Day of Service in one or more of the following ways:

  1. Off-Site/Hands-On — Day of Service volunteers may participate in a volunteer shift at the “Giving Factory” in Philadelphia. Volunteer activities may include:
    • Quality checking shoes, backpacks, and other clothing donations for kids
    • Cleaning shoes
    • Packing bookbags

    This activity will occur on Thursday, November 14th from 10:00 AM –12:00 PM. Volunteers signing up for the activity should plan to leave the conference hotel by 9:30 AM the morning of November 14th and aim to return to the hotel around 12:30 PM.

  2. On-Site/Hands-On — ABCT members are also invited to create personalized “back to school” encouragement cards that will be placed in the school bag kits developed at the Giving Factory. This opportunity will be open to members throughout the duration of the conference (starting 10:00 AM on Thursday and ending at 12:00 PM on Sunday) in the following two rooms: Conference Suite II and III.
  3. Online/Remote — During our Day of Service and throughout the conference, ABCT members can make financial contributions directly to the Cradles to Crayons organization through their website. Click here to donate.