Be Your Best Self
AJM’s Be Your Best Self (BYBS) program is a nationwide outreach aimed primarily at encouraging self-esteem in young people. AJM adopted the program as its platform in 1987, as a way for Junior Misses to share a positive, personal approach to young people and help them lead successful and productive lives.

The program is designed to promote literacy, all-around excellence, and self-esteem in young people. It allows Junior Misses to reach out to young people and encourage them to make a commitment to being their best selves in areas including academics, physical fitness, morality, character, and social and civic participation. It also includes encouraging young people as they face the challenges of negative peer pressure. Drawing on their own personal experiences, Junior Misses deliver helpful messages emphasizing the importance of setting goals and striving to reach them.

The Be Your Best Self Promise
I want to help improve the world, and that begins with me. I promise to do the following things:

• Be Healthy- Be physically fit 
• Be Involved- Serve my community
• Be Studious- Stay in school 
• Be Ambitious- Set and achieve goals 
• Be Responsible- Live by moral and ethical principles