Support Sand Point Housing staff with distributing free summer meals and snacks to youth.
About Sand Point Housing
Our Sand Point Housing campus provides permanent supportive housing, affordable permanent housing, and onsite support services for formerly homeless families. Located in Seattle’s Magnuson Park near Lake Washington, the campus includes renovated historic U.S. Navy buildings and newer construction totaling 183 townhomes and apartments. Today, 400+ people – about half of whom are children and youth – live in a thriving community with onsite support services at Sand Point.
Summer Meals Distribution Volunteer
Volunteers are needed to assist Solid Ground staff with breakfast, lunch or snack distribution, and/or lunch preparation, all under staff supervision. Breakfast and snacks include premade meals from the city of Seattle, but lunch will be prepared by staff and volunteers each day. Volunteers must have a food handlers permit or be willing to get one online during onsite volunteer time; the program will cover any costs. Other tasks that need volunteer support include:
- Distribute, serve, and track meals given to children.
- Clean up after meals and assist with food storage and safe handling.
- Assist with activities such as coloring, games, art, and more during lunchtime to engage youth once they finish eating.
Time Commitment
Volunteer opportunities run every weekday from July to August (exact dates to be determined), with various volunteer shifts available between 10:30am and 1pm:
- 10:30-11am: Snack Distribution
- 10:30am-12pm: Lunch Preparation
- 12-1pm: Lunch Distribution
Qualifications
- Must be 16 years or older.
- 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.