BE A GREAT VOLUNTEER
This volunteer program has been established for two main reasons:
1. Our Club Members, the children of our most distressed neighborhoods, need your help to realize their fullest potential.
2. If you're going to volunteer your precious time to help, the experience needs to be quick, easy and flexible to fit your schedule.
The on-line enrollment form is secure and we will keep your personal information confidential. We do not share or sell our mailing lists or donor information.
To enroll as a
GREAT VOLUNTEER click -
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SHARE YOUR GIFT
Do
you have a hobby that you know the Club Members would love, come and
share that hobby with the Boys and Girls Clubs. All of our Club Members
would love to learn about horseback riding, or graphic design, or how to
play lacrosse or baseball. Or if you are a great gardener, come and
plant flowers at the school with the Club Members. Share you talent for
music, art, theatre, or dance. We are always looking for great
volunteers!
HOMEWORK HELPER
Homework Helpers is a mentoring program built around homework time. Too many of our children not meeting our state's educational standards for excellence. We all know that parental-type support is most often the key to a child's success in school. At the same time, the evidence available tells us that many children are not getting the parent support that is required. That's where the Club and your service as a Homework Helper comes to the rescue. Our Clubs are all based in school facilities and we locate our Clubs where the academic and socio-economic needs are the greatest. In these schools virtually every student needs the extra support a Club can provide.
Ensuring homework completion is one of our goals at the Club. We refer to homework time as the Power Hour. During this time the children are grouped by grade level in different classrooms or other areas in the host school, like the cafeteria or music room. Different groups do Power Hour at different times during the Club's operating hours from 2:30 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. While we are open on Fridays, Power Hour is a Monday through Thursday program.
When you sign up to be a Homework Helper, we will perform a background check. Our objective is to keep children safe from those who are likely to harm them. When volunteering you should never be alone with a child, nor left in charge of a child or a group of children. We have paid staff assigned to every group.
Here's how your experience as a Homework Helper would go. You will be educated on where to go in the school to find a Power Hour group. When you enter, please let the staff member in the room know that you are a Homework Helper. As you come in there will be children with their hands raised indicating that they have a question or need help. You simply pick one and provide the assistance needed. We don't want to do their homework for them, we only want to keep them focused and help them over problem areas. Once that child's need is satisfied, you move onto the next child needing assistance. During times when no one needs individual help, offer to check over completed homework assignments or listen to a child read. You stay as long as you like. Even if you come in and help one child for 10 minutes you will have made a real difference.
As you help these children, you will learn how precious they are. You will see their potential. Your interaction with them will enrich their life and inspire them to do better in school. Thank you for being a Homework Helper.
If for any reason, your experience is not satisfactory please let us know and give us a chance to remedy the situation. You can email our Executive Director, Greg Tolbert atgreg@bgcusc.org or call us at 864-583-4867.