Open doors with your heart.
Volunteers play an integral role in the healing process that occurs at Helping Hand Home. Because our children have experienced strong violations of trust, it is often the greatest challenge for them to develop healthy relationships with others, particularly adults. While at HHH, the children slowly learn that they can trust the adults who work here, and do indeed develop those types of relationships they never had the opportunity to experience before.
However, this new-found trust in adults rarely extends to the world beyond the walls of Helping Hand, which the children often view as "scary" or "unpredictable". Thus, in bringing volunteers into the Home, we introduce the children to the reality that there are in fact safe, caring individuals in the world, and provide them the opportunity to learn to trust the world again.
You can provide hope and love
in a child’s life by becoming an HHH volunteer!
Volunteer Opportunities
Special Events: Attend off-grounds activities with the children on Saturday mornings.
Homework Helpers assist children
with schoolwork and help develop academic skills, such as reading
and writing. Homework time is Monday through Thursday from 3:30pm
to 4:30pm.
Bedtime Story Volunteers help children
feel safe and secure at bedtime by reading them stories as they
fall asleep. Bedtime Hour is 8:00 pm to 9:00 PM every evening.
Volunteer Groups facilitate recreational
activities with children.
Hero Volunteers Hero volunteers help
with the "behind-the-scenes" work that is integral to
the successful operation of our agency. Hero volunteers help with
tasks such as administrative work (filing, organizing, preparing
packets, etc.), as well as preparing for projects, organizing various
spaces in the home, etc.
Group or individual volunteers may also perform a community
service (wash vans, bike maintenance, grounds beatification,
etc.) or sponsor an activity in the
community.
Steps to becoming a volunteer
1. Commit to at least one hour a week of service for a minimum of 3 months.
2. Fill out and submit a volunteer application (via email, fax or post) and you will be contacted within two weeks if you are going to be invited to the volunteer session.
3. Attend the volunteer information session as arranged by the Volunteer Coordinator.
4. After the information session, the Volunteer Coordinator will schedule an interview with you (please bring any calendar information you might have to this session to help facilitate this process).
5. You will then be contacted by the Volunteer Coordinator to arrange for the background check, drug screening and Tuberculosis testing.
6. Begin working with our children!
Volunteers must be a minimum of 18 years of age
Please note: We do not fulfill court ordered community service
requests
Volunteers are accepted and placed based solely on the needs of the children in care. We are currently no longer accepting new volunteers for Spring 2010. Our next volunteer orientation will be in August 2010 and we will begin accepting applications again on July 15, 2010. Thank you so much for your interest!
Veronica Meewes
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(preferred contact method)
3804 Avenue B
Austin, TX 78751
(512) 459-3353
(512) 459-1658 fax
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