Recruiting & Training

We have a variety of volunteer opportunities available – everything from sorting through donations, to mentoring to fundraising.  Below are our current needs prioritized.

We need volunteers for our Reading Room!  The Reading Room implements an incentives based literacy program to help our children.  (K-12) practice and improve basic literacy skills using age appropriate activities, rewards for personal reading goals, and parent participation opportunities.  If you are 18 or older and would like volunteer some time, we have applications available.  We are especially looking for men to work with the male students & mentor them as well. We also would welcome any retired teachers. The hours of operation are from 2:30 p – 6p Monday thru Friday.  If you can only come a few hours a week, that’s okay.  Every little bit helps.

We are looking for women to mentor our group of parents and parents-to-be for our Big Steps for Little Feet and Harold Cares programs.  The classes are held on Wednesday and Thursday evenings for 10 weeks.  Volunteer applicants must be able to commit to attending the classes with one of our clients once a week and maintain a relationship after the baby is born.  Our next session begins in January.

Employment Program – we need mentors to implement a four-week employment program one night per week.  The curriculum will include resume building, internet job search/applications, phone skills and taped mock interview exercises. Once our clients have completed the first classes and have a job interview scheduled, we would like the mentors to sponsor a client with the image-building portion of the training, including taking the client out and purchasing an interview ensemble and getting their hair & make-up done.