Volunteer Opportunities
Orientation sessions are held on the 2nd Saturday of each month from 9:00 to 11:30 am. at Talitha Koum, 1311 Clay. Registration is required. To let us know you will attend, please call Marge Dawson at 753-1144 or email Marge@TalithaKoum.org. Please bring $2 cash to the orientation to cover the cost of the criminal background check required by our license. We look forward to sharing our joy and hope!
- Spend a minimum of one hour playing with our children on a scheduled basis, weekly or bi-weekly. Our classrooms are broken into four age groups: Infants, Toddlers, Preschool, and Pre-K/Kindergarten.
Times for volunteering are mornings (anytime during a period from 7:30 until 11 a.m.) and afternoons (from 1:30 until 4:30 p.m.).
- Administrative assistance (i.e. bulk mailings, other clerical duties)
- Work with our swimming pool program (June-August only)
- Help with Tuesday evening childcare during Parenting Meetings in May and June, and as needed “on call” when regular Baylor volunteers are absent. Volunteers are asked to arrive by 5:45 p.m. with expectation of leaving by 7:15 p.m. at the latest.
- Sign up to be contacted and join us for quarterly work sessions where we pitch in on building and grounds upkeep.
- Introduce us to new groups (church, civic, fraternal, and family) by arranging for a speaking opportunity for one of our staff or Mission Group members. Let us know if AV equipment is available.
- Each Tuesday night when Parenting Meetings are held, an array of Pick a Gift items are displayed so that parents leave with some food and clothing for the family as well as small gift items, on occasion, for Moms and Dads. We need help with weekly display and cleanup. Displaying items can take place Monday and/or Tuesday so long as the display is ready by 6:00 p.m. each Tuesday.
- Help rearrange and clean out our Pick a Gift closet (needed quarterly and taking several people several hours to accomplish).
- Recruit and/or provide Pick a Gift items: lightly used children’s clothes (infants through 14), candles, lotion, bath items, picture frames, little gifts for Moms and Dads.
- Do you hold an interest in seeing these children continue to excel until they wear a cap and gown? We need dedicated mentors who take that responsibility for one child with the intention of being present in his or her life until High School graduation. Some mentors act as individuals, some as couples, others as teams of two who share a particular child.
- This activity begins when the child attends First Grade in a local school.
- It is best if the mentor has entered the program in advance so that the mentor gets to know the children while they are still in our care at Talitha Koum during Kindergarten. During that time the mentor will likely be drawn to mentoring a particular child.
- Significant mentoring program support is provided through Talitha Koum’s Clinical Director, Nurture Center Director and by way of our long-held relationships with the parents of our children. In addition, mentors offer mentoring counsel and ideas to each other.
- Volunteers who will work in a classroom must attend a Volunteer Orientation prior to volunteering and we would like for all volunteers in any capacity to do so. Please contact Talitha Koum’s Administrative Assistant, Marge Dawson by email: Marge@TalithaKoum.org, or by calling 753-1144.
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