1933 – The Junior Service League’s first project was the organization, with the help of other community leaders, of the Shreveport Family Welfare Association, which later formed the nucleus of the Community Chest, now known as the United Way. It was this constructive action that brought about the acceptance of the Junior Service League into membership in the Association of Junior Leagues of America in February 1933.

1947 – CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER – The Caddo Parish Mental Hygiene Society and the League cooperated in 1946 on a survey to evaluate the community’s health needs. The following year, the Junior League agreed to sponsor, for a one-year demonstration period, a child guidance center with a part-time staff. A year later, the center opened with a psychiatrist spending one day a week there and a full-time case worker. The Community Chest accepted the Guidance Center in 1952.