Volunteer
Become part of the team
Volunteers come to Community LINC on a search to help others, meet people, and use their skills, talents and experience. Do you have special skills or talents you would like to share? We are always looking for new ways to further enrich our program. Email volunteer@communitylinc.org to learn how you can help prepare an apartment for a new family!
How do I get started?
A great way to find out more about Community LINC is to come visit us! Building Hope Tours are conveniently scheduled so you can tour our facilities and get an inside look at how we serve the families of Community LINC. Interested? Please contact our Volunteer Coordinator volunteer@communitylinc.org or call 816.595.5159 to check available scheduling.
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Volunteers make a difference
Our success depends on the partnership between our volunteers, families and our staff. Through this partnership, we fight against poverty and social injustice. Making an impact may not take as much time as you think!
Why volunteer with Community LINC?- Develop relationships you will never forget
- Teach skills and provide necessary resources
- Encourage change and hope in the lives of our families and our community
- Give guidance and input to improve Community LINC
- Dispel existing myths about poverty and homelessness
Become part of the team
Volunteers come to Community LINC on a search to help others, meet people, and use their skills, talents and experience. Do you have special skills or talents you would like to share? We are always looking for new ways to further enrich our program. Email volunteer@communitylinc.org to learn how you can help prepare an apartment for a new family!
How do I get started?
A great way to find out more about Community LINC is to come visit us! Building Hope Tours are conveniently scheduled so you can tour our facilities and get an inside look at how we serve the families of Community LINC. Interested? Please contact our Volunteer Coordinator volunteer@communitylinc.org or call 816.595.5159 to check available scheduling.
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A Budgeter works in a team or alone with adults in our program providing weekly direction in accounting and money management. Reports to Program Director Jeannine Short.
Hours: 6 pm - 7:30 pm Thursday evenings
Objectives and Duties:
- Attend budgeter briefing session from 6-6:30pm Thursday evenings
- Budget with the individual from 6:30pm-7:30pmThursday evenings going through the family’s weekly finances and planning ahead.
- Notify staff of any concerns
Skills needed:
- The ability to assist a family in creating and sticking to a budget
- A call to the community
- A willing heart for those who have been through transition
- Patience
- A motivating and encouraging personality
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An Early Childcare Volunteer works with infants through age 6 - reports to Children's Program Director
Hours: 5:30 pm - 8 pm Tuesday & Thursday evenings
Objectives and Duties:
- Assist as an attendance tracker, chore monitor, supply and snack monitor or birthday coordinator
- Provide leadership and direction in various youth activities such as arts, crafts, dance, ABC’s, movies, song time, games, or whatever creative activity you can teach!
- Diaper and nurture the infants.
- Supervise, feed and clean-up after both the infants and the toddlers during snack time.
- Notify staff of behavioral, learning or other concerns.
Skills needed:
- Openness to children who have been through transition.
- Enjoyment of working with young children.
- An understanding of mutual respect.
- Patience and love.
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Life Skills volunteers work with youth ages 6-18 and report to the Children's Program Director
Hours: 5:30 pm - 8 pm Tuesday & Thursday evenings
Objectives and Duties:
- Assist as an attendance tracker, reward monitor, chore monitor, supply tracker, birthday coordinator or snack monitor
- Provide leadership and direction in various youth activities such as arts, crafts, dance, drama, games, or whatever creative activity you can teach!
- Work with children on learning the 300 most common words.
- Lead the children in icebreaker activities and a set evening curriculum.
- Work with the children on life skills such as conflict resolution, problem solving, goal setting, and personal achievement.
- Turn in a weekly activity plan.
- Nurture and encourage the children.
- Notify staff of behavioral, learning or other concerns.
Skills needed:
- Openness to children who have been through transition.
- Patience and love.
- An understanding of mutual respect.
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Children's Tutors work with youth ages 6-18 and report to the Children's Program Director
Hours: 6 pm - 7:45 pm Tuesday & Thursday evenings
Objectives and Duties:
- Assist as a curriculum tracker, attendance tracker, reward monitor, chore monitor and supply tracker.
- Tutoring will happen in both an individual and group capacity, assisting children with specific homework assignments as needed.
- Design a series of lesson plans that are appropriate for group tutoring sessions of elementary age children.
- Lesson plans will focus on each of the core subject groups; each subject group to be covered over the course of one programming night. The lesson plans ideally will cover the general subject matter for about 45 minutes per programming night.
- Tutors will turn in weekly progress reports to Program Director; these progress reports will discuss the topics covered that week, the subjects the children are working on, and progress they are making.
- Notify staff of behavioral, learning or other concerns.
Skills needed:
- Experience working with children
- Some experience in tutoring or education is a plus
- Openness to experience new challenges
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Children's Mentors work with youth ages 6-18 and report to the Children's Program Director
Hours: 5:30 pm - 8 pm Tuesday & Thursday evenings
Objectives and Duties:
- The Children’s Mentor will start as a Children’s Life Skills volunteer - through learning about the programming and getting to know our children the Children’s Mentor can establish closer relationships with individual children.
- After an appropriate time period, if the family, child and mentor feel comfortable with the idea of a one-on-one mentoring relationship, then the Children’s Mentor is given the opportunity to spend time with the child outside of the program doing enrichment activities.
- Once the mentoring relationship is established the mentor will set meetings every two weeks with the Children's Program Director to report on the progress of the mentorship, what kinds of activities they are participating in, how the relationship is progressing with the child, and any behavioral observations that they have about the child.
- The mentor will also have monthly meetings with both Children's Program Director and the parents of the child to report on the mentorship.
- Mentors will also be asked to periodically appear as guest speakers on program nights to talk about various activities and to share their experiences with the children in our programs.
Skills needed:
- Experience working with children
- Patience
- Openness to experience new challenges
- A willingness to share your skills and talents with children
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Children's Mentors work with youth ages 6-18 and report to the Children's Program Director
Hours: Flexible according to individual's schedule
Duties (Not all skills necessary):
- General cleaning
- Plumbing
- Electricity
- Painting
- Drywall hanging/repair
- HVAC
- Carpentry/framing
- Extermination
- Carpet and Tile laying
- Tuck pointing/brick masonry
- Landscaping
- Woodworking
Skills needed:
- A call to community
- Willingness to get a little bit dirty!
- Energy
- Some Experience
- Ability to work with a diverse group of people