Community Service Opportunities
for Poway High Students
These opportunities are posted to help you, but you are NOT limited to these opportunities. These opportunities are listed by date needed, with the on-going opportunities listed last.
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What |
Brief Description |
Contact Information |
| Poway Spirit Day | On Saturday, May 17th from 8-noon, Poway will be holding a Community Service Day. Volunteers will help clean at the library, the senior center and the park. Additionally, the senior center is looking for teens to play in their billiards tournament with senior citizens. | Cindy LaRue |
| Work at Garden Road Country Fair | 20 volunteers are needed to help with Garden Road Elementary School's annual Country Fair on Friday, May 30th from 3 - 9 p.m. Volunteers will help with games and crafts. They prefer at least a 2 hour commitment. Sign up ahead of time for your shift. | Rhonda Skvoretz (858) 679-1073 or rhonda_g_pta@cox.net (one underscore before and after the 'g') |
| Work at Painted Rock's Fair | Student volunteers are needed to help with Painted Rock's annual fair on Friday, May 30th from 3 - 8. Volunteers will help set up, work carnival booths, and clean-up. |
Linda Diersbock
onlyfehr@cox.net (858) 312-5054 or (858) 357-6555 |
| Work at a summer camp with Helen Woodward Center | Volunteer at the Helen Woodward Center summer camp June 9 - August 22. Volunteers would work as junior counselors for Summer Critter Camp. |
Applications are available at
www.animalcenter.org Click on "Volunteer" page or contact Lori Piccirillo (858) 756-4117 ext. 305 or lori@animalcenter.org |
| Junior camp counselor at Outpost Summer Camp | The Outpost Summer Camps in Rancho Penasquitos is looking for volunteers who can commit to at least 3 weeks. Jobs include leading children in various outdoor activities, including hiking, swimming, rock climbing, sailing and building forts. |
-Kelly Neiss
Director
(858)695-CAMP
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| Library Volunteers | The Poway Library is looking for teen volunteers to attend their teen advisory group meetings, shelve books, assist with programs, etc. Volunteers over 14 must have a background check and medical exam (the County will pay for it). |
Danielle Hurt, Helen Seabolt or Martha Shankle
513-2900 or Danielle.Hurt@sdcounty.ca.gov |
| Mentoring at Valley Elementary School | Valley Elementary School’s Mentoring Program “TAKING TIME FOR TIGERS” is looking for volunteers to serve as mentors for our energetic and enthusiastic elementary grade level students (K-5) for the 2007-2008 school year. If you are high energy, reliable, and dedicated to being a role model to younger students please consider being a mentor. They are looking for mentors to volunteer once a week on Monday, Tuesday, or Thursday from approximately 2:45-3:45 and 12:15- 1:15 on Wednesday. Applications are available in room K-25 (Student Services). |
Stephanie Carriero scarriero@powayusd.com or 748-2007 Ext# 2135
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| Clean up for homes burned in fire | Help residents sort through rubble, looking for items that survived the fire; clean up on-going |
Phil Harris, FFCC (Family and Friends Connection Center) Philffcc@san.rr.com or 858-451-1839 |
| Food packaging for orphans in Africa | Goal is to package 100,000 meals for people in Tanzania. In February they packaged 103,000 meals. Students have said this is the most fun they ever had doing community service! They are also looking for help raising $6-8,000. In Tanzania, there are 10,000 people - 6,000 of them under the age of 16! next date TBD |
Phil Harris, FFCC (Family and Friends Connection Center) Philffcc@san.rr.com or 858-451-1839 |
| Tutoring ELL students | In the spring semester there will be an after school study skills/cultural class for ELL (English Language Learners) students. Tutors in core subjects and students interested in educating ELL students about our culture are encouraged to volunteer two days per week (either M-W or T-Th). |
Tessa Pouliot (858) 603-3407 or itstessatime@hotmail.com |
| Work with patients with Alzheimer's | A small home for patients with Alzheimer's Disease is looking for students to interact with their patients. Volunteers could play the guitar, do arts and crafts, fix their hair, etc. The home is located right by Espola and Twin Peaks Roads. |
Judy Prentiss (619) 889-2199 |
| Head Start Program | Work with children ages 3-5; volunteer once a week for two or more hours; work on classroom projects and improve literacy. |
Dr. Eugene Horton 858-715-2642
ext. 230
Go to Student Services for an information packet |
| Work at Chaparral Elementary | Chaparral is looking for high school students to commit to 1/2 hour per week to act as a student mentor: encourage & support student; read with student; play games; interact with student; and help with homework. |
Ronda Hatton, Student Services Coordinator rhatton@powayusd.com 858-485-0042 ext. 4146 |
| Tutor at Meadowbrook Middle School | High School tutors are needed for Meadowbrook students. | Patti Woods |
| Tutor at PHS | Tutors peers in many subject areas; freshmen will generally not be assigned to tutor peers; freshmen should apply to tutor at an elementary or middle school |
Sandy Stromberg, Student Services
Specialist sstromberg@powayusd.com 748-0245 ext. 5394 |
| One-on-one mentoring at Midland Elementary | Midland Elementary School is looking for high school students to work one hour per week with an assigned student. |
Traci Acers, Counselor tacers@powayusd.com or (858) 668-4071 |
| Various duties | Pomerado Hospital Auxiliary has a wide variety of opportunities for students. You must attend a training class and have a TB test. | Student volunteers call 760-739-3080; read more at http://pph.org/body.cfm?id=16 |
| Seniors, childcare, elementary homework help and more! | SAVY
(Students Actively Volunteering for You) is dedicated to helping middle
school and high school students from throughout San Diego meet real
community needs through volunteerism. We engage more than 30,000 students
each year in community service and service learning projects, and we
support hundreds of other youth through our min-grant program. SAVY
provides opportunities for young people to volunteer, develop and
demonstrate leadership skills, make a difference in the community and much
more.
You can go ahead and view the calendar even though it says it’s for members only. The password is SAVY (says so right on the log-in page). The links on the calendar give further info about the activity, as well as information to RSVP for a particular one. |
http://www.volunteersandiego.org/more/savy.shtml |
| Feed Homeless | Every 1st Monday of the month, feed the homeless at the Salvation Army: 825 7th Avenue (between E and F streets). |
Phil Harris, FFCC (Family and Friends Connection Center) Salvation Army: 619-231-6000 Philffcc@san.rr.com or 858-451-1839 |
| Collect and/or deliver blankets | Collect blankets for Mexico. You may just collect, but you can also join the group going to Tijuana to deliver the blankets. (Blanket collection can be ongoing.) |
Phil Harris, FFCC (Family and Friends Connection Center) Philffcc@san.rr.com or 858-451-1839 |
| San Diego's Fight Against Hunger | On-going help raising funds for orphans in Tanzania. FFCC packages food to send to Africa; is working on building a dormitory for school girls; education; etc. |
Phil Harris, FFCC (Family and Friends Connection Center) Philffcc@san.rr.com or 858-451-1839 |
| Walk and work with dogs and/or cats |
After an orientation day, you can walk and help care for dogs at the Escondido Humane Society. |
Micki Hickox, Director of Volunteer Services Escondido Humane Society 3450 E. Valley Parkway Escondido, CA 92027 760-888-2270 www.escondidohumanesociety.org/volunteer.html (Downloadable info & application packets included) |
| Websites for various opportunities | Put
in zip code and search by interest (animals, kids, advocacy, etc.)
http://www.volunteermatch.org/ http://www.usafreedomcorps.gov |
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updated 05/13/2008
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