Jaguars Players Cortez Hankton, Rashean Mathis, and Nick Sorensen sign t-shirts for Duval County High School Students.
This year's theme, Lend a Hand, conveys the message that one person alone cannot solve the problems faced by communities across the nation. In keeping with that theme, United Way of Northeast Florida and the Jacksonville Jaguars workshop - "You Can... Succeed, Achieve and Accomplish" Life Skills Workshop - focused on students from high schools served by United Way's Full Service Schools program. This initiative provides numerous services to students and their families, including mental health counseling, family counseling, and tutoring. The workshop gave students from Forrest, Terry Parker, and Englewood High Schools the opportunity to get expert coaching on resume writing and job training, while area professionals were able to give them pointers on the life and social skills needed to succeed.

"United Way is pleased to be part of this exciting partnership with the NFL and locally the Jacksonville Jaguars," said Connie Hodges, president of United Way of Northeast Florida. "Hometown Huddle resonates because it's focused on something every one of us can do - give back to our local community. It's only if we work together to make a collective impact that we will be able to make positive, lasting change in the lives of First Coast residents."

Now in its 33rd year, the NFL and United Way partnership is the most visible and longest running charitable collaboration of its kind. For more than three decades, the relationship has been an example of the tangible good that can be leveraged when two household icons are harnessed into a powerful vehicle for real change in our communities.