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AJM Partners with Boys & Girls Clubs
To Celebrate National Be Your Best Self Week

More than 55,000 young people expected to be exposed to program’s
message of self esteem and positive living habits.

The nation’s oldest and largest scholarship program of its type will dispatch many of the nation’s best and brightest young women to Boys & Girls Clubs across the nation to share messages of positive self esteem and personal development during National Be Your Best Self Week. The national event, presented by America’s Junior Miss (AJM) will take place the week of May 4-8, 2009, and is expected to reach more than 55,000 young people in Boys & Girls Clubs across the nation.

During National BYBS Week, each state Junior Miss, as well as some local Junior Misses, will visit a Boys & Girls Club in her community to talk to young people about being physically fit and drug free, serving their communities, staying in school, setting and achieving goals, and living by moral and ethical principles. Each Junior Miss will use her own talents and life experiences to present the program through creative and fun methods that engage the young people they meet. Past presentations have included dance lessons, puppet shows, community service projects, and interactive discussions.

Young people who agree to accept the BYBS challenge will complete pledge cards as a personal commitment to be healthy, studious, involved, ambitious, and responsible.

About AJM & BYBS

Since 1958 America’s Junior Miss has provided scholarships and life-enhancing experiences to its participants at the local, state and national levels. The Be Your Best Self program began from the desire to provide a common means for Junior Misses to give back to their communities and help young people grow to be successful and responsible adults. The Be Your Best Self program has five principles: Be Healthy; Be Studious, Be Involved, Be Ambitious, and Be Responsible.

To locate a National Be Your Best Self Week event in your area, or to learn more about BYBS, visit us online at www.ajm.org/about/be_your_best_self/bybs_week.