Volunteer Opportunities

Direct Service Volunteer:

• Lunch or Breakfast Buddy - Lunch Buddies provide a mentoring friendship for the children.  Each volunteer is assigned a student to be their "buddy."  The volunteer comes to school once a week to have lunch with their buddy, talk, play games, or read.
• Tutor - Tutors assist students with homework, help them prepare for tests, or help with their reading and/or math skills.  Each tutor makes a weekly visit to their assigned student and sees directly the effect their participation has on the child's educational progress.
• Classroom Assistant - Classroom Assistants come once a week for a period of two hours (9:00 - 11:00 or 1:00 - 3:00).  The volunteer will assist the teacher in facilitating classroom activities.  Responsibilities include individual tutoring, leading small group learning activities, art projects, checking papers and other helpful tasks.

Indirect Service Volunteer:

• Snack Providers - Snack providers may be individuals or groups who bring hearty, healthy snacks for the children on a regular basis, whether that be once a week or once a month.  This is an important function as we often are not sure what quantity of nutrition the child recieves once he/she leaves school.
• Office Volunteers - Office volunteers help in our main office with answering phones, and organizaing resources room, as well as help on office projects.
• On-call Volunteers - On-call volunteers may assist with special events, represent the agency at special events, or various other unusual needs that may arise throughout the year.
• Organizations, Business, or Groups:
  • “Lunch Buddy For a Day” – This program allows a group to get a feel for what being a lunch buddy or tutor would be like. The day starts off with a presentation about A Child’s Place and other community resources for the underprivileged in our community. This is followed by lunch with a group of client children and then a group session afterwards to discuss your experiences.
  • Packing Snack Bags – Big groups are great for this project. Each client child receives a snack-bag at least twice a week, which means we make over 2,000 snack bags a week. Your group would help us pack each bag with nutritious snacks for our client children to have while outside of school.
  • Wrapping Christmas Presents – We have thousands of Christmas presents donated each winter for our client families. Each one of these gifts needs to be wrapped and labeled for our client children to open over the holidays.
  • Apartment Makeover – ACP has two apartments for client families to live in as transitional housing for six months while they finish saving up for a permanent home. After each family moves out we need a group to clean it, repaint (if needed) and help decorate it.

** A Child’s Place is always excited to begin new partnerships or try new ideas, any volunteer opportunities that we can think up together would always make an impact on our clients and our staff. **

Our volunteer application form is now online. To learn more about ways you can help A Child's Place throughout the year, please download our Volunteer Information Packet below. You must fill out both forms in order to volunteer with A Child's Place.

Volunteer Information Packet and Application

AND Online Volunteer Application

Feb 7th- 10 am in Training Room 106 :: Click here to sign up

Feb 8th- 11 am in Training Room 106 :: Click here to sign up

Feb 9th- 12 pm in Training Room 104 :: Click here to sign up

Feb 14th- 10 am in Training Room 1 :: Click here to sign up

Feb 15th- 2 pm in Training Room 1 :: Click here to sign up

Feb 16th- 12 pm in Training Room 106 :: Click here to sign up

Feb 21st- 10 am in Training Room 2 :: Click here to sign up

Feb 23rd- 12 pm in Training Room 106 :: Click here to sign up

Feb 28th- 10 am in Training Room 106 :: Click here to sign up

Feb 29th- 11 am in Training Room 106 :: Click here to sign up

Our offices are located at 601 E. 5th Street, Suite 230 (corner of 5th and Davidson) in the Children and Family Services Center. There is parking behind our building located off 5th Street. The arm gates will open when you pull in and we'll make sure you get a token to exit. Please sign in at the security desk and she will direct you to the correct training room.

Before you attend an orientation, please take a few minutes to register on the CMS website. We are now working with CMS on volunteer screenings and it is important that you complete this step. The website is https://www.cmsvolunteers.com/.

For more information about volunteering please contact: Jen Yoger, Development Associate-Volunteer Coordinator and In-kind donations at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or (704) 343-3790.