Now recruiting for fall 2023 volunteer opportunities!
Sand Point Housing is looking for volunteers interested in supporting youth through one-to-one and group tutoring.
About Sand Point Family Housing
Our Sand Point Housing campus provides affordable permanent housing and onsite support services for formerly unhoused families and individuals. The stunning campus, located in Seattle’s Magnuson Park near Lake Washington, is on former U.S. Navy property. It includes historic renovated buildings and new construction totaling 175 townhomes and apartments. Since 1999, more than 3,000 people have stayed at Sand Point Housing in their journey from homelessness to stability. Today, nearly 500 people (including almost 200 children and youth) live in a thriving community with onsite support services at Sand Point.
About tutoring at Sand Point
- Volunteers will help provide one-on-one and group tutoring support to children and youth in Sand Point Housing’s Children’s Program, usually after school and in the evenings. Tutoring occurs under the guidance of a Children’s Group Specialist staff member.
- Volunteer tutors support students by providing one-to-one help with homework, reading and writing skills, basic math skills, and other academic subjects in a positive environment.
- Volunteers are needed during the following homework help and tutoring groups:
- Monday through Thursday evening tutoring groups for children ages 6-18, 6-7:30pm.
- One-to-one tutoring outside of group hours may also be an option for volunteers with parental permission and appropriate background checks completed.
Qualifications
- Willingness and ability to work with children and families from a variety of racial, cultural, and economic backgrounds, with various lifestyles, sexual orientations, and of all ages.
- Ability to work effectively with children in group and individual settings.
- Ability to be nonjudgmental, positive, respectful, creative, consistent, and flexible.
- Have problem-solving skills to manage issues or behaviors that may arise.
- Must have strong human relations skills to work effectively with a diverse team of staff and participants.
- Experience working in the educational, social, and human services fields is a plus but not required.
