Erin Elizabeth Husbands
World's Universal Beauty
Miss Baton Rouge
Promoting Volunteerism and Children's Miracle Network
Partner Organizations
Erin has partnered with several organizations throughout the Baton Rouge community. Click on the organization listed below to learn more about their mission, how YOU can get involved, and how Erin is involved with their organization:
Volunteers of America
Erin's Involvement
Erin is the official state spokesperson for Volunteers of America. Erin has visited with many of the volunteers and staff throughout her reign as Miss Baton Rouge. She has also been involved with some of Volunteer of America's many programs.
Mission Statement
Volunteers of America is a movement organized to reach and uplift all people and bring them to the knowledge and active service of God.
Volunteers of America, illustrating the presence of God through all that we do, serves people and communities in need, and creates opportunities for people to experience the joy of serving others.
Volunteers of America measure its success in positive change in the lives in individuals and communities we serve.
A Ministry of Service
Volunteers of America is a Christian organization, established in 1896 by Christian social reformers Ballington and Maud Booth. The mission of the organization, as stated in 1896, is "to reach and uplift all people and bring them to the the knowledge and active service of God."
Volunteers of America Greater Baton Rouge supports and empowers families and individuals to reach their full potential through the delivery of human services in 19 parishes. We serve Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Allen, Jeff Davis, Evangeline, Acadia, Lafayette, Vermilion, St. Landry, St. Martin, Iberia, West Feliciana, East Feliciana, Pointe Coupee, Iberville, West Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge and Ascension.
Volunteers of America is itself a church. We are a group of people, of all faiths in the communities we serve.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Mental Health Support
- Housing for Homeless
- Housing for Veterans
- Foster Parent Support
- Child Care Services
- Host a birthday party for the elderly
- Movie and popcorn night
- Host a collection or household item drive
- Teach a class or demonstrate a skill
- Host BINGO for the elderly
- Volunteer with C.H.O.I.C.E.S. program
- Set up a recycling program
- Help with landscaping
- Host a fundraiser
- Day of Leisure
- Help with outings
- Take a Tour!
Children's Miracle Network
Erin's Involvement
Since the Miss Baton Rouge pageant is an official preliminary of the Miss America Organization, Erin helps to raise funds for CMN, and all the children that CMN in turn helps. Erin has visited 3 of the 4 CMN hospitals in Louisiana. She has also participated in the New Orleans CMN Tele-a-thon. Erin has been invited many times by the hospitals to participate in fund raisers and special events.
In 1989, the Miss America Organization implemented the platform concept. Each contestant on the local and state level was required to choose a platform that is relevant to our society. Today, each titleholder uses their stature to address various organizations, businesses, and media on their social platform.
Service, one of the four points of the crown, has always been important to contestants striving for the opportunity to be Miss America. The Miss America Organization has adopted the Children's Miracle Network as their new national platform. As a goodwill ambassador for the Children's Miracle Network, contestants have the opportunity to raise funds not only for the children, but as well as for the Miss America Scholarship Foundation.
What is the Children's Miracle Network?
Founded in 1983, the Children's Miracle Network is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping kids by raising funds for 170 children's hospitals across North America. The 170 hospitals affiliated with CMN help 17 million children each year: kids with cancer, birth defect, pediatric AIDS, accident trauma and every affliction imaginable. These children's hospitals are there 24 hours a day to provide state-of-the-art care, cutting edge research and community outreach programs that benefit children in every state in the U.S.
Through its year-round effort to help kids, CMN has raised more than $2.7 billion to date. This year alone CMN hospitals will provide charity care worth billions, yet these children's hospitals depend on community support to help fund their vital services.
CMN Facts:
- Children's Miracle Network's most recognizable symbol and greatest fund raising tool - the red & yellow Miracle Balloon, has sold more than 33.000 sponsor locations throughout North America, and has raised more than $250 million for children's hospitals since 1986.
- Children's Miracle Network enjoys support from:
- 107 Television Stations
- 270 Radio Stations
- 75 Sponsors
- CMN Hospitals:
- Treat 98% of all children needing heart or lung transplants
- Treat 88% of all children with cancer
- Treat 76% of all children with cystic fibrosis
- Treat 90% of all children with sickle cell anemia
- Treat 72% of children with pediatric AIDS
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March of Dimes
Erin's Involvement
Erin previously sat on the National Youth Council for March of Dimes as a liaison for Family, Career and Community Leaders of America. Erin helped both organizations form a national partnership. During Erin's time on the NYC, Erin had the opportunity to travel to White Plains, NY, to meet the national staff and president of March of Dimes. Erin also traveled to various parts of the country to promote March of Dimes and FCCLA. Presently, Erin works with the Baton Rouge chapter of March of Dimes to Save Babies, together! This November, Erin will continue to raise awareness on prematurity. Erin will participate in the first annual Signature Chef Gala, and various luncheons held throughout the month!
The March of Dimes Making A Difference
The March of Dimes' mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality. The March of Dimes carries out this mission through programs of research, community services, education and advocacy to save babies' lives.
A History of Success
President Franklin Roosevelt established the March of Dimes in 1938 to save America's youth from polio. His premise was that people can solve any problem if they work together. He created a partnership of volunteers and researchers, and within 17 years, the Salk vaccine had been developed and polio was on the run. That dynamic partnership has endured and it's what makes the March of Dimes work. With the help and support of the American people, the March of Dimes has saved the lives of millions of babies over the past 64 years. And we won't stop until we reach the day when every baby is born healthy.
The March of Dimes of Today
Even though we have beaten polio, the fight to save babies goes on. March of Dimes researchers, volunteers, educators, outreach workers and advocates work together to give all babies a fighting chance against the threats to their health. Things like: prematurity, birth defects and low birth weight.
St. Elizabeth Foundation
Erin's Involvement
Adoption is very important to Erin, being that she is adopted from Mexico. Erin partnered with St. Elizabeth Foundation to help promote National Adoption Month (November). Erin has visited with volunteers, staff, and families whose lives have been touched by adoption through St. Elizabeth's. This November, Erin will be at the open houses of St. Elizabeth, appear on Channel 2-Tune In, and even public service announcements!As Miss Baton Rouge, Erin will Spread the Good News of Adoption...One Conversation at a Time!
St. Elizabeth Foundation is a local adoption (Baton Rouge) agency that provides confidential, comprehensive counseling services to pregnant teens and young adults facing an unplanned pregnancy. It also provides medical are, continuing education and continuing counseling after the birth and placement for as long as needed. St. Elizabeth Foundation has been open since 1988 and we are licensed by the State of Louisiana Adoption Laws & Procedures. We have placed, to date, over four hundred babies! And we are proud of our excellent record of assisting Birthmothers and families with adoption.The Foundation is small and family-like! Our handful of employees are easy-going, honest, and available when you need them. We tailor the adoption process to the wishes of the Birthparent, not the adopting parents.
American Cancer Society
Erin's Involvment
Erin has worked with the American Cancer Society many times to raise funds and awareness. Erin has participated in Relay's from Central to South Louisiana. Erin had the opportunity to participate in the annual Jamaica Me Crazy fundraiser held August 2009. All night, Erin helped with the silent auction, live auction, and even modeled a diamond pendant for the live auction! For the remainder of her reign, Erin will raise funds & awareness for the upcoming Relay for Life-Baton Rouge.
Mission Statement
The American Cancer Society is the nationwide, community-based, voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service.
What We Do
The goal of the American Cancer Society (ACS) is to prevent cancer, save lives, and diminish suffering from cancer.
Our Vision
Welcome to the American Cancer Society. Together with our more than 3 million volunteers across the country, we’re working to create a world with more birthdays – where cancer never steals another year from anyone’s life. Every day, we save lives by helping people stay well, helping people get well, by finding cures, and by fighting back. We combine our relentless passion with the wisdom of nearly a century of experience, and we get results.
With so many different ways to be part of our mission, you’re sure to find one that’s just right for you. We offer critically important volunteer opportunities that empower all kinds of people to share their unique gifts to help drive our mission forward.
