Support Broadview Shelter staff with distributing free summer meals to youth.
About Broadview Shelter and Transitional Housing
Broadview provides secure, confidential housing for parents with kids who’ve survived domestic violence (DV) and are moving out of homelessness. Using a trauma-informed care model, we help families address the issues that led to their housing loss, develop a strong community support system, and find and secure permanent housing. Volunteers play an important role at Broadview!
Summer Meals Distribution Volunteer
Volunteers will support Broadview staff distributing breakfast and lunch to youth. Duties include:
- Interact with youth/parents as they arrive to receive their meals.
- Help keep track of which youth receive summer meals each day.
- Package and label summer meals for the following day (menus will be provided for you to follow).
- Maintain a friendly and outgoing attitude with families from diverse backgrounds.
Time Commitment
Volunteers are needed weekdays from Monday, June 22 – Friday, August 28 from 9:30am – 12pm. Each volunteer is encouraged to commit to a regular weekly schedule.
Qualifications
- Must be at least 18 years old and not in high school.
- Must have or be willing to get a food handler’s permit.
- Experience working with school-age children.
- Ability to communicate with children in kind and supportive ways.
- Passion for education and supporting youth development.
- Willingness and ability to work with staff, volunteers, and program participants of varying racial, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, ages, abilities, lifestyles, and sexual orientations.
- Excellent communication skills, and sensitivity to the concerns of parents and children living on low incomes who are in crisis or transition.
- Ability to be nonjudgmental, positive, respectful, creative, consistent, and flexible.
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
- Dependable and able to commit to a weekly volunteer schedule.
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BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color), and people with the lived experience of poverty are strongly encouraged to apply. This opportunity also qualifies as an RSVP (Retired and Senior Volunteer Program) activity.
Solid Ground believes poverty is solvable.
Volunteers play a critical role in helping us meet basic needs, nurture success, and promote change – so everyone in our community can achieve their full potential.