Volunteer
Open Doors With Your Heart
Volunteers play an integral role in the healing process at Helping Hand Home. The children in our care have experienced violations of trust from adults & peers around them. This relational trauma requires relational healing. While at HHH children learn to trust again by building safe, healthy, and authentic connections to adult caregivers & peers. Volunteer engagement extends this newfound trust to the world beyond Helping Hand, showing children that there are safe & caring individuals in our community and beyond.
You can provide hope and love in a child’s life by becoming an HHH Volunteer!
Volunteer Opportunities
Homework Helpers: Monday-Thursday 3:30pm
Assist children with schoolwork and help develop academic skills, such as reading and writing.
Activity Volunteer: Monday-Friday 4:00pm, Saturday-Sunday 10:00am or 4:00pm
Join the children for fun and play in the afternoon. You will join along with the staff and children for indoor play and outdoor active play, games, crafts, and more.
Activity Leader: Day and Time Varies Based on Schedule
Teach the children and staff a skill or hobby that you enjoy. From sports, art, yoga to opera and creative writing, share your passion and skillset with the children in our care.
Bedtime Readers: Monday-Sunday 7:30pm
Help children feel safe and secure at bedtime by reading stories to them as they fall asleep.
On-Site Childcare During Foster Care Training: Day and Time Varies Based on Schedule.
Volunteer Groups and Corporate Development:
Facilitate special events and activities on or off campus for the children, such as carnivals, field days, arts and crafts projects, sporting events, performances, workshops and more.
Behind the Scenes Service Opportunities:
Group or individual volunteers may perform hand-on service (wash vans, bike maintenance, grounds beautification, inventory, library organization, etc.), organize a wish list drive or sponsor an activity for our kids within the community (trip, performance, baseball game, circus, museum, movie, etc).
Volunteer Onboarding Schedule & Steps:
We will begin accepting applications for the Spring 2025 onboarding session on November 1st.At that time, you will be able to complete your individual volunteer application, here.
All applications are due by January 31, 2025.
After reviewing applications, the Volunteer Manager will reach out to you with dates and times for the following steps:
- Virtual Volunteer Information Session
- Zoom Interview with the Volunteer Manager
- Documentation and testing, including: background check, drug screening, tuberculosis testing, and Helping Hand Home documentation
- In-Person Volunteer Orientation
Volunteers must be a minimum of 18 years of age. Please note, we do not fulfill court-ordered community service requests.
Thank you for your interest in helping our children.
Jasmin Reardon, MA | Volunteer & Enrichment Manager | SEND EMAIL