PLEASE NOTE: We are no longer accepting applications for spring volunteers. However, you may submit an application for consideration as a summer volunteer. Stay tuned for further information and summer training dates!
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
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New Opportunities:
- We are currently looking for stylists to donate their time so our kids can experience a haircut in a salon setting. We are also seeking stylists who specialize in African American haircare and are able to visit our agency on a weekly basis to help with styling.
-Looking for a volunteer yoga instructor to lead a weekly class with our kids. Prior experience teaching children preferred. - Homework Helpers assist children with schoolwork and help develop academic skills, such as reading and writing. Homework time is Monday through Thursday from 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM.
- Bedtime Readers help children feel safe and secure at bedtime by reading stories to them as they fall asleep. Bedtime Hour is 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM every evening.
- Volunteer Groups facilitate special events and activities on campus for the children, such as carnivals, field days, arts and crafts projects, sporting events, performances and workshops.
- Activities Volunteers play with the children during afterschool hours (3:30 PM-5:00 PM) and on weekends. They will be trained in a number of playground games they may use, and they will also assist with any activities that are happening on the home. New: HHH is looking for volunteers to teach our girls how to double dutch this spring! Please contact us if you have experience or any leads.
Group or individual volunteers may also perform a community service (wash vans, bike maintenance, grounds beatification, inventory, library organization etc.), organize a drive (see wishlist for more info), or sponsor an activity for our kids within the community (trip to a performance, baseball game, circus, museum, movie, etc).
Steps To Becoming A Volunteer
- Commit to at least one hour a week of service for a minimum of six months.
- Fill out and submit a volunteer application (via email, fax or US mail) and you will be contacted within two weeks if you are going to be invited to the volunteer session.
- Attend the volunteer information session as arranged by the Volunteer Coordinator.
- 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).
- You will then be contacted by the Volunteer Coordinator to arrange for the background check, drug screening and Tuberculosis testing.
- 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.
Thank you for your interest in helping our children!
Contact Information
Veronica Meewes
Send Email (preferred contact method)
3804 Avenue B
Austin, Texas 7875
Direct Line: (512) 600-7898
Fax: (512) 459-1658
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