VOLUNTEER
Volunteering with Youth and Family Outreach is an excellent way to support your community and make a difference in the lives of children and families of Greater Portland.
Consistency is priority one with our children. If you are considering some volunteering with Youth and Family Outreach in our classrooms, we ask that you be able to commit to no less than 6 months. This gives the children time to get to know you and understand that you will be a stable person in their classroom and someone that they can trust. Volunteers are a wonderful way to enhance the programming, allowing teachers to schedule special events on the day that they know they will have a volunteer to assist.
These are just some of the ways that we encourage the community to be involved:
· Assisting on field trips
· Reading to children
· One on one with a child that needs extra attention
· Sharing a special talent with classrooms (yoga, dance, music, foreign language,etc.)
· Clean up around our building and the neighborhood
· Landscaping both one- time projects and ongoing
· Volunteering for fundraising events
Meet Grammie. She has been volunteering with Youth and
Family Outreach for 12 years now. She comes to us through the Foster Grandparent Program. She is in our infant program four mornings per week to give babies that extra one on one that they need. She rocks them, feeds them and cuddles them.
If you are interested in volunteering, please call Camelia at 874-1073.
