Breakthrough depends on the involvement of generous community members like you! Here are some ways to get involved: help to plan a fundraising event or host a fundraising social event with your friends, host a Breakthrough SJC teaching fellow in your home for two months in the summer, host an information session about Breakthrough SJC…
Healthy Smiles needs volunteers year-round to help with community outreach and engagement at our clinics, in our administrative center, at various events, and more. Volunteers needed at all special events to help the day of and up to two weeks in advance to organize materials. They also help draft, review, and edit collateral materials.
Provide mediation services to disputing parties, document contact with clients on appropriate forms, conduct necessary follow-up with disputants, provide resources and referrals, assist with special projects or events as needed, and attend advanced trainings. Bilingual capabilities welcome.
Assist in providing services to survivors of sexual assault/abuse and their families to help reduce the trauma associated with a crime. Respond to hotline calls and/or provide on-scene advocacy at hospitals. Skills and Qualifications: Must be able to communicate with empathy and concern. Be patient, non-judgmental and able to demonstrate sensitivity to the cultural/ethnic diversity…
The Youth Shelters welcome volunteers who would like to donate their time and share their talents with the residents by leading a group in a number of subjects, such as arts and crafts, gardening, cooking, music, yoga or other therapeutic topics. We are always open to new ideas! Additionally, the shelters are always looking for…
Volunteers assist with providing opportunities for survivors to cope with trauma and develop self-sufficiency. Opportunities include community outreach, life skills coaching, mentoring, interpreting, special events and donations.
Volunteer Opportunities include greeting shoppers, fundraising, administrative support, grocery pick-up, sorting pantry items, and stocking shelves.
Lesson volunteers work directly with our instructors, therapists, and staff members providing assistance before, during and after a rider’s lesson. Trained to become sidewalkers and leaders, each member of the volunteer team has a specific responsibility. Working directly with the rider, sidewalkers are a helpful extension of the instructor, giving encouragement and physical support. Working…
Assist with various programs such as Family Selection which involves leading family orientations, process applications, interview, and select eligible families, Homeowner Education which helps keep Habitat OC families involved with each other and with Habitat OC programs, or College Bound which helps families and their children pursue higher education.
When you volunteer for a shift at the ReStore you help Habitat for Humanity OC’s home improvement store build homes in our community! Every product we sell allows us to continue to Raise the Roof and provide hard-working limited income families the opportunity to purchase safe, decent and affordable housing in Orange County.