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 in distributing breakfast, lunch, and snacks to youth. Duties include:
- Interact with youth as they come to receive their meals.
- Help inventory meals.
- Check milk cartons for expiration dates and store food safely.
- Maintain a friendly and outgoing attitude with children from diverse backgrounds.
- Encourage children to dispose of their garbage appropriately.
- Support cleanup after lunch and snack time.
- Support group activities with children when possible and needed.
Time Commitment
Volunteers are needed from the last week of June to the first week of September, Monday to Friday, from 10am-12:30pm. Each volunteer is encouraged to commit to a regular weekly schedule.
Qualifications
- Must be at least 18 years of age 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.