Wearing a mask has become a health necessity as we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. The CDC recommends that masks be worn whenever we are in a public place to fight the spread of the virus. Just A Smile has homemade cloth masks that we are donating to anyone …
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Food Drive
In our continued efforts to assist local residents and our community during the COVID-19 pandemic, Just A Smile is collecting food for the City’s drive-thru food pantry. Many families are struggling to put food on the table and are turning to food pantries for some assistance. With the increase of …
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Giving Thanks
This week, Just A Smile member, Jenna Huff, delivered cookies to the orange county sheriff’s office as a way to thank them for their service in protecting the community especially during this pandemic. Using her love for baking, Jenna made dozens of individually wrapped cookies for the deputies and staff. …
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Supporting Residents in Need and Local Businesses (update)
A huge thank you to everyone who generously donated to Just A Smile so that we could support local residents impacted by COVID-19. Through several fundraisers we were able to raise over $1500 to aid two local charities. Project Access serves more than 140 low-income families and StandUp for Kids, …
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Let’s help local businesses and families!
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to progress, many businesses and families have been adversely affected. Many of the small, local businesses have lost a large portion of their revenues due to the stay-at-home order and may not survive the duration of the crisis. Many families are also struggling due to …
Read more!COVID-19 Support for Families
As the days and weeks of this pandemic progress, many families are unable to obtain necessary supplies. Just A Smile has recently been preparing for Project Vietnam’s Mission Trip and we have collected many bottles of children’s tylenol and motrin, diapers and children’s vitamins. The mission trip was scheduled to …
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2nd Annual Project Vietnam donation drive
Just A Smile is currently collecting donations for the upcoming Project Vietnam mission trip this year. Doctors and nurses on the mission will provide free cleft lip and palate surgeries to underprivileged children in Vietnam. We are in need of post-surgery care items and would appreciate donations of the following items: * …
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Get Fit And Support Just A Smile!
Put on your running shoes, grab your family and friends and join Just A Smile for the city of Mission Viejo’s Oso Fit 5k run on Saturday, February 29. Get fit and help Just A Smile raise funds for our local cleft lip and palate community. The city of Mission …
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A Big Thank You from Just A Smile!
Many thanks to the following corporations for their generous donations to Just A Smile! We truly appreciate the matching donations, gift cards, merchandise and fundraising support. 100% of all donations go to support our local craniofacial families within the community as well as to organizations serving to help children in …
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Come Support Just A Smile!
Take the day off from cooking and join Just A Smile at Panda Express! On February 7 we are holding a fundraiser at Panda Express in Ladera Ranch and 20% of all dining proceeds will be donated to Just A Smile! Please be sure to present either the electronic or …
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Just A Smile welcomes San Juan Hills High School
Just A Smile is growing! We are so excited to welcome a new campus chapter of Just A Smile at San Juan Hills High School! During their club rush, President Jenna Huff and Vice President Samantha Gugliuzza were able to sign up 25 new members! The club has already been …
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2nd Annual Club Rush A Success!
The second annual Just A Smile club rush at Tesoro High School was another success! We are happy to announce we’ve added another 45 members! The hard work and dedication …
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ALOHA! CHOC 3rd Annual Craniofacial Family Event
It was a fun day at the third annual CHOC Craniofacial family event! This year was luau themed and the Just A Smile team had a blast! One of the events was “Dunk your Doctor” in a dunk tank and the 300+ families who showed up definitely enjoyed it! …
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We are now an AmazonSmile charity partner!
Just A Smile is excited to announce that we have partnered with Amazon’s AmazonSmile program to help support our cause! When you shop using AmazonSmile (smile.amazon.com), and select Just A Smile as your designated charity or use the link https://smile.amazon.com/ch/81-5412856 , Amazon will donate 0.5% of the purchase price to …
Read more!Just A Smile receives grant for logo t-shirts
Just A Smile would like to give a huge thank you to 4Imprint for their generous grant! Applying through 4Imprint’s One by One Program, our organization was awarded $500 to purchase any merchandise we wanted. 4Imprint offers a large selection of customized logo products and after browsing the hundreds of …
Read more!Much needed medicine and stuffed animals collected for Project Vietnam!
Project Vietnam (projectvietnam.org) is an organization that provides cleft lip and palate surgeries and post-operative support to impoverished children in the rural areas of Vietnam who would not otherwise be able to afford this life-changing surgery. Our goal at Just A Smile was to help Project Vietnam collect the much …
Read more!Children’s medicine drive for Project Vietnam – final week!
In our continued effort to help Project Vietnam for their upcoming medical mission trip in March, Just a Smile is collecting children’s liquid ibuprofen and children’s liquid acetaminophen for the kids in Vietnam. Our drive is hoping to collect 100 bottles by March 1. If you are able to donate …
Read more!Got stuffed animals for Project Vietnam?
JustASmile.org is currently collecting gently used and new stuffed animals for the upcoming Project Vietnam mission trip in March. The mission will provide free cleft lip and palate surgeries to underprivileged children in Vietnam. Thank you!! We are also in need of stickers! Any donation is greatly appreciated!
Read more!Our 2nd Ladera Ranch bake sale!
The Just A Smile Team is back at it again! We had another bake sale this January and it was a hit! We would love to thank all of our volunteers for their hard work and dedication! We raised $130 woohoo:). We also would like to thank everyone who stopped …
Read more!Just A Smile club at Tesoro High School
Hi guys! Just A Smile has created a new chapter at Tesoro known as the Just A Smile Club! Every participant there has been nothing but hard working and enthusiastic! We are thirty-four members strong and counting! We would love to welcome anyone who’s happy and willing to participate in …
Read more!Garage Sale a big success!
A big shout-out to Guys Giv’n Back for letting Just A Smile join their 8th annual Mission Viejo garage sale extravaganza fundraiser! Through many generous donations from our community, our teams were able to raise over a thousand dollars. A great big thank you to Christy Wrightson of Guys Giv’n …
Read more!CHOC Cleft and Craniofacial Family Event at the Santa Ana Zoo!
This past July was Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness Month and I was so excited to be a part of the celebration at the CHOC Craniofacial department’s 2nd annual family event at the Santa Ana Zoo! The event brought together over 300 patients and family members! It …
Read more!After-school Otter Pop sales to benefit CHOC!
Thanks to the support of my awesome middle school, we were able to raise over $200 selling Otter Pops after school this past week! We received generous donations of Otter Pop cases from members of our PRIDE Stars program, led by Ms. Vollebregt. Special thanks to …
Read more!Donation drive was a success! Two cleft lip and palate surgeries funded!
Yay, I’m so excited! Although it has been a lot of work these past few months working on our donation drive, it has really paid off. I was able to raise enough money to fund two cleft lip and palate surgeries through Smile Train and Operation Smile! Thanks to everyone …
Read more!Just a Smile bake sale in Ladera Ranch!
After a rainy past few days, the skies were beautiful on Sunday as fellow Just a Smile member and friend, Jenna, hosted a bake sale with me in Ladera Ranch’s Town Green. We had lots of foot traffic and were able to sell our yummy brownies, cake pops, cookies and sweets …
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