Opportunity Details
Grieving the loss of a loved one is never easy. For children, grief is especially difficult. A child may not demonstrate their grief in ways that adults readily recognize. It may appear that they are adapting well; living their life with relative ease after a loss. When a child mourns in silence they may well be grieving alone. Their lack of vocabulary and ability to understand all that they are feeling can cause great suffering.Journeys is a year-round program of Centrica Care Navigators which offers a safe and supportive environment for parents and young people who share the challenges associated with losing someone they love. The program is free of charge and open to all.
Volunteers are needed.
Greeter and Meal Service:
1. Assist with dinner preparation
2. Greet and interact with families upon arrival
3. Take attendance.
4. Direct families upstairs where they can get their name tags.
5. Lock up downstairs and give doorbell phone to a Centrica Journeys Grief Counselor.
6. Assist with dining room/kitchen clean up.
Group Co-Leader
1. Assist in facilitation of a grief support group under the direction of a grief counselor.
2. Working as a team with other group co-leader(s) to facilitate therapeutic exercises, group discussion, and connections between group members.
3. Read curriculum email prior to each session, arrive to pre-group meeting on time and prepared.
4. Communicate via email or telephone between sessions, as needed or directed, with a Grief Counselor and/or co-leader(s) of assigned group.
5. Classroom setup & supplies:
6. Assist with classroom setup prior to Journeys sessions, checking baseline supplies in rooms, refilling supplies, making copies, gathering and setting up supplies for the next sessions project(s).
Opportunity Details
Support area youth through a one-to-one mentoring relationship, providing a positive, adult friendship. Youth matched in Big Brothers Big Sisters' programs have increased self-confidence, improved interactions with other adults and peers, and increased academics. Volunteer Big Brothers or Big Sisters can be matched with a Little in one of two mentoring environments.Community-Based Program: Matches a Little (ages 6-14) with a Big; Meets 2-4 times a month, often evenings or weekends; Spend time doing activities that interest both (ie: riding bikes, watching movies, visiting a museum, or going to a sporting event); Can participate in BBBS sponsored activities offered at least twice per month.
School-Based Plus Program: Matches a Little (ages 5-11) with a Big; Meets 2-4 times a month, during lunch and recess at the Little's school; Can play board games, read books, talk, or go out for recess; Able to attend BBBS sponsored activities offered at least twice per month.
Opportunity Details
We are seeking volunteers during the TELUS Days of Giving to help us with our gardening/yardwork.Our goal is to ensure that the children, youth and families in our communities have a safe welcoming place to belong and that starts from outside our facilities to inside our spaces.
Available Shifts
| Shift Name | Signup Max | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gardening | 6 | n/a | n/a |
Opportunity Details
Become a volunteer mentor and help have a positive impact on a child in Langley who needs a mentor. As a mentor in our community-based one-to-one program, you will be paired with a child that you will visit in your own time once per week for 2 - 4 hours for at least one year. Can't spare 2 hours? You could be an in-school mentor, matched with one child for the duration of a school year for one hour each week on school grounds. Want something with a shorter term? You could be a group program leader in Go Girls or Game On which requires a commitment of two hours per week for just eight weeks. Applications are accepted for all volunteer opportunities year-round. Contact us for more information on any program, or visit our website.
Opportunity Details
If you decide to visit Kingsbridge Heights Community Center on Viacommunity Day 2017 you will be given an immersive experience where you will be paired with either our Early Childhood 3 -5 year old's or our English as a Second Language (ESOL) students.With our Early Childhood classes you will have a garden adventure where you will pair up with a child and be potting a variety of vegetables and exploring the tastes of the fresh produce from our community garden.
If you are in an ESOL class you will be helping students practice their English skills through fun and educational games and role play activities.
In the second half of the day you will be helping us maintain our 120 year old building by painting rooms and doing maintenance activities to ensure our campus is kept to the highest standard.
Opportunity Details
The Annual Damamli Mother’s Day Event on Monday, May 15, 2017 is an opportunity to celebrate our young mothers and to provide them with a nice dinner and some spa-themed goodie bags.The young women in our care have faced many challenges in their lives and many of them grew up in foster care. They are learning how to parent their kids without repeating the trauma and abuse they suffered, to be better parents and build brighter futures for themselves and their children.
The opportunity we are proposing for AOL's Service Day on May 12, is for employees to support this special Mother’s Day celebration! We would be grateful for your support filling swag bags for our young mothers with items such as lotion, nail polish, body wash, hair/nail gift certificates to salons in the Baltimore-area, other pampering items, art supplies, and gift cards to restaurants, grocery stores, or recreational activities. If your group wanted to make Mother's Day cards, the young women would love those as well! We are open to any ideas your team has to make this day special for the young women in our care. We would love for the items to be organized in nicely decorated swag bags.
Items prepared on may 12 could be picked up or dropped off at an arranged location and presented to the young mothers on the 15.If AOL employees are interested in leading an activity, volunteering, or being present at the Mother's Day Dinner Event in Columbia, they would be welcome!
Available Shifts
| Shift Name | Signup Max | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hearts & Homes for Youth Damamli Project | no limit | n/a | n/a |
Opportunity Details
As a children's advocacy center, CARE House of the Pee Dee's mission is to promote healing in a nurturing environment to child abuse victims and their families, through supportive services and prevention. You can support The CARE House through volunteering, financial support, donations, and attending events.We currently are in need of weekly or monthly volunteers to do odds & ends jobs around CARE House.
Opportunity Details
We invite AOL Chicago's team to take part in the uniquely Embarc Community Social. Community Socials are an incredibly powerful event that would allow the AOL team to exchange meaningful life stories with Embarc students. This 2-hour experience is completely facilitated by the Embarc team and drives home a deeper understanding of networking skills, social awareness, and self-worth. Participants will broaden their horizons and see the impact of their work without even leaving the AOL office. Check out this video to see a Community Social in action: https://vimeo.com/178218559. The goal is to bring students from Chicago Tech Academy High School - where AOL also supports Step Up Women's Network programming - to participate in this Community Social.The Community Social is a critical component to addressing Embarc’s simple theory of change: you can only become what you can see.
For many low-income high school students in Chicago, daily life revolves around the four- or five-block radius from their home and their school. Based on our understanding that your experiences make you who you are, consider the impact of this social isolation on students’ mindset about where they belong and what they can achieve. Sixteen- and 17-year-old students living just three miles away have never seen the lake or set foot in a downtown office building, been to a play, or visited a college campus. Students know more people in jail, shot or killed than they do with a college degree. Without access to diverse models of success, and lacking exposure to colleges, careers, arts, and culture, many students move through high school with limited ideas about their potential and what is possible in their own lives.
Embarc’s program design was conceived by teachers in one of the nation’s toughest high schools with an understanding of the profound effect this “opportunity gap”. They knew that if low-income students have more social and cultural exposure, life skills, career development, and models for success, they will build non-cognitive skills and achieve academically, achieve postsecondary success, and contribute to their communities and to our collective society. To create lasting change, this exposure must be systematic and long term. Rather than addressing the achievement gap by simply driving academic skills, Embarc innovatively aims to close the achievement gap by addressing non-cognitive skills, sparking a passion and perseverance for long-term goals, and teaching students the action steps it takes to achieve those goals.
Embarc pairs a three-year, fully-embedded, in-school curriculum with journey immersion, providing an average of 12 experiences and approximately 210 total hours of Embarc programming for each student each year from their sophomore through senior year of high school. Curriculum is implemented by carefully selected teachers within each school who receive comprehensive training in Embarc’s methodology, including more than 23 hours of professional development and more than 50 hours of instructional coaching each year.
Embarc collaborates with more than 200 community partners to provide experiential learning opportunities in the areas of team building, health and wellness, arts and culture, and college and career awareness. Experiences include: journeys to businesses, nonprofits, university partners, and cultural institutions; curated, school-based workshops by community partners; and this “speed networking” Community Socials with corporate partners. The design of Embarc’s program ensures that all experiences are coupled with a curriculum that supports growth and drives the goal of increasing academic achievement and achieving postsecondary and life success.
Embarc is unique in our program’s holistic impact on students, combining intense academic enrichment and postsecondary preparation resources with experiential opportunities that take students out of their school, break down the classroom walls, and turn the city into a classroom. Embarc believes that experiences should not be relegated to those who can attend afterschool programs or extracurricular activities, but rather that they should simply be part of the educational lexicon and fundamental to our theory of education just like math, science, or reading is. The impact of Embarc’s program - affirmed by experience, evaluation, and research - is to not only transform student outcomes in the short term but to - in the long term - inspire shifts in urban education policy and strengthen our collective social fabric.
While there are nonprofit organizations focused on high school graduation and college success for low-income, first generation Chicago students, Embarc is uniquely positioned as leading experience-based learning with wraparound student support and a scalable model. This results from our low cost structure, use of teachers to implement the program, and strategic use of existing resources, systems, and infrastructure. Embarc uses teachers to run its program in schools, allowing us to leverage already existing relationships and expertise, and capitalizing on a familiarity with how the building works and how to engage with the students and the administration. Each year, Embarc brings approximately $100,000 in much-needed resources to each of our partner schools.
Available Shifts
| Shift Name | Signup Max | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Social | 25 | n/a | n/a |
Opportunity Details
Currently recruiting professionals interested in board leadership in New Haven, Hartford and Fairfield County, Connecticut.