Provide crucial, hands-on assistance as a single parents program support that directly helps single parents in building stability and accessing essential resources.
Workshop Support Volunteer
- Detailed Role: You are the logistical anchor for our empowerment workshops (e.g., financial planning, career development). Tasks include setting up the meeting space (chairs, materials, A/V equipment), managing attendee registration and sign-in sheets, distributing handouts, and assisting presenters with any needs during the session.
- Impact: Your efforts ensure that the single parents attending have a focused, professional learning environment, allowing them to fully absorb the valuable skills being taught.
- Commitment: Varies based on workshop schedule (typically 2–3 evenings per month).
- Ideal for: Reliable, proactive individuals who enjoy event setup and logistics.
Childcare Helper (On-Site)
- Detailed Role: While parents are participating in support groups or workshops, you will provide safe, supervised, and engaging childcare on-site. This involves leading age-appropriate activities, supervising playtime, and attending to the children’s basic needs.
- Impact: This is a high-value role. By offering reliable childcare, you remove a major barrier to participation, enabling single parents to access essential empowerment services.
- Commitment: Specific evening or weekend times when parent groups meet.
- Ideal for: Individuals with experience or comfort working with children. (Note: This role requires a mandatory background check and specialized ARC training.)
Resource Guide Compiler
- Detailed Role: You will regularly research and verify community resources relevant to single parents, including housing assistance, mental health services, affordable childcare options, food banks, and employment programs. You will maintain and update a digital database and resource binder used by ARC staff for client referrals.
- Impact: You ensure that the single parents we serve receive accurate, current, and reliable information quickly, connecting them to vital aid when they need it most.
- Commitment: Flexible, remote work of 3–6 hours per week.
- Ideal for: Organized individuals who are proficient in online research and data management, and who possess an understanding of local community resources.
Ready to Join Our Community of Resilience?
Your time is a precious gift. We seek volunteers who can commit for a minimum of three months to ensure consistency and stability for our clients and programs.
Take the next step: View our detailed volunteer handbook and complete the online application form to join the ARC Center team and start making an impact!