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The American Legion Auxiliary Missouri Girls State Committee and Staff are hard at work preparing a limited, in person session for 2021 held on the campus of the University of Central Missouri from June 20-26.  Although we had to cancel our session in 2020, we have created protocols for how to address the health and safety of all of our ALA MGS citizens and staff including mandatory mask wearing, daily health assessments, and the use of single person dorm rooms to accommodate our much smaller program population.  Many of our other events, locations, or plans will also have slight modifications due to changes with the University or as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

We want to thank all of the ALA Units who have continued to prioritize and find a way to sponsor a delegate to this year's session.  We know we could not do this without your support and we understand the hardships all of our Units and communities have faced during this past year.  However, we can all attest to the value of our program and what it can do to inspire our youth to participate in our democratic society at the local, state, and national level.

 

Among the changes that we have planned for this year's session, we will not be allowing outside visitors to the session outside of arranged speakers.  This includes hosting our annual Alumni and Friends event that we have previously held on the Thursday of our ALA Girls State session.  While we know there is no way to replace the experience of coming to visit our session in person, we are hoping that you may consider donating an item to ALA MGS that we feel will be necessary to conduct our session this year.  You can find these items on our Amazon Wish List at https://amzn.to/3vTN03k.  These items include thermometers for temperature checks, detergent to launder fabric masks, disinfecting wipes, and hand soap (to provide to all participants).  We also acknowledge that many of our Units were not able to send a delegate this year due to financial hardships and hope that those Units or any members in the Department may purchase an item from this list.  By utilizing this wishlist - the items will also automatically ship to our Director in Warrensburg so we will have them available for our session!  

 

We will not hold any in person briefings this spring!  All delegates and alternates will receive a letter in mid-April regarding downloading our informational packet and completing an all online orientation process.  As mentioned in the Unit sponsorship packet, completing this orientation by June 8th will be required for all participants.  Therefore, we will contact your Unit Chair or President if your delegate does not meet this requirement.

 

We encourage all members and alamgs alumni to follow the week's activities via Facebook and Instagram. The social media links will be available on missourigirlsstate.org during the 2021 session. 

 

Thank you again for your support!  Feel free to send any admission questions to Ms. Linda Schaap at linda.schaap@missourigirlsstate.org or other program questions to me at director@missourigirlsstate.org.  

If Amazon isn't your thing, you can still support us financially.  We greatly appreciate your support as we build tomorrow's leaders. 

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Yes, this goes to Patty's PayPal account but she promises, it ALL goes to MGS.  

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