Provide a safe, accepting environment while supervising youth during field trips.
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.
About Youth Field Trip Volunteers
Volunteer chaperones support Sand Point Housing staff and youth during field trips. In addition to ensuring that all youth are supervised, volunteers provide a safe, accepting environment and foster social, emotional, physical, and cognitive growth. Solid Ground covers admission costs for any activities or site visits (e.g. museums, zoo) and provides transportation from Sand Point to field trip sites.
Time Commitment
Field trips are scheduled two weekdays a month and last anywhere from 3 to 8 hours. Volunteers should be available between 9am to 5pm on field trip days.
Qualifications
- Minimum age requirement: 16 or older.
- 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 interpersonal 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.
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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.