Service Opportunities in Our Community

AIDS Ministries/AIDS Assist

Service Activities: To coordinate care for persons living with HIV and community-based HIV testing and and prevention education.

Contact: Debra M. Stanley

American Red Cross of St. Joseph County Chapter

Service Activitie: Give disaster relief prepardness presentations in schools and the community, work with refugee/asylee clients, help organize and coordinate first aid classes, assist military families through emergency communications, train as a disaster responder, working with the language bank, and front office assistance.

Contact: Rebekah (Go) DeLine

Ark Angels, Inc.

Service Activities: Life coaches, Strategic Teaching Aimed at Results and Respect, project development, linking leadership mastery with learning and intervention

Contact: Ron King, arklitesite@gmail.com

Big Brothers, Big Sisters of St. Joseph County

Service Activities: Spend time with a child 2-4 times a month, off campus

Contact: Deborah Burrow

Boys and Girls Club of St. Joseph County

Service Activities: Mentor, lead groups, coach, special fundraising projects

Contact: Vicki Geschke

Bridges Out of Poverty

Service Activites: Engage students through support for programs such as Monthly Networking Meetings, as well as in community outreach, education, and research.

Contact: Bonnie Bazata

Broadway Christian Parish UMC

Service Activities: Food pantry, morning outreach programs, guest computer skill development, other projects

Contact:  Rev. Nancy Nichols

Catholic Charities

Service Activities: Assist with food pantry, immigration department, counseling, adoption and pregnancy services, senior aides, RSVP, GED program, and citizenship, ENL, budgeting, and business skills classes

Contact: Claire Coleman

Catholic Worker House

Service Activities: Preparing dinner, processing donated vegetables, cooking, and cleaning

Contact: Aimee Shelide

Center for the Homeless

Service Activities: Assist with adult basic education and work-place readiness programs, front desk, and administrative work

Contact: Peter Lombardo

Chiara Home, Inc

Service Activities: Interact with guests, cook meals, play games, and assist with website.

Contact: Brenda Emmerth

Children's Dispensary, Inc. (A Place to Be Me)

Service Activities: Mentor children with social and cognitive impairments, assist in social, educational, and recreational activities.

Contact: Doris Ann Doyle

Corvilla, Inc.

Service Activities: Assist with residnt activities, social outings, parties, and several unique fundraising activities.

Contact: Diana Dolde

Dismas House of South Bend

Service Opportunities: Cook an evening meal, tutor GED  or computer skills, plan activities, maintain website, prepare brochures, data entry, answer phones, host fundraisers, recruit volunteers

Contact: Maria Kaczmarck

El Campito, Inc.

Service Activities: Work in classrooms reading, playing, and providing individual attention to children, babysit during parent meetings

Contact: Susan Enamorado

Family Justice Center

Service Activities: Complete intakes, including crisis intervention, safety planning, needs assessments, and referrals

Contact: Sareen Lambright Dale

Food Bank of Northern Indiana

Service Activities: Sorting food from food drives, packing orders, food pantry staffing, clerical support, help with events, preparing food kits, supporting a community food drive

Contact: Milton Lee

Hannah and Friends

Service Activities: Assist with programs for individuals with special needs through music or dance therapy, cooking classes, and more.

Contact: Katie Teitgen

Hannah's House

Service Activities: Children maternity home for unwed mothers; Administrative work, cleaning, yard work, cooking, childcare

Contact: Karen DeLucenay

Hope Ministries

Service Activities: Assist case managers with resident services, events planning, receptionist, tutoring adult education, serving meals, administrative assistance

Contact: Beth Morlock

Indiana Legal Services, Inc.

Service Activities: Conduct interviews with potential clients, summarize the case into written narratives for attorney review

Contact: Heather Mezosi

La Casa De Amistad, Inc.

Service Activities: After-school program, GED, ESL, computer and citizenship classes, youth development programs

Contact: Rebecca Ruvalcaba

Life Treatment Centers, Inc.

Service Activities: Front desk, residential housing aides, detoxification, landscaping, treatment aide specialists

Contact: Julia Shapiro-Newbill

 Literacy Council of St. Joseph County

Service Activities: Tutoring, intake/progress assessment, child care

Contact: Paula Lambo

Little Flower Catholic Church

Service Activities: Food pantry, children's junior high and high school programs.

Contact: Craig Phillips

Logan Center

Service Activities: Provide a range of services to individuals with disabilities.

Contact: Shelly Zabukovic

Near Northwest Neighborhood

Service Activities: Numerous opportunities from one-day projects, to on-going service, to internships.

Contact: Karen C. Ainsley

Notre Dame Upward Bound

Service Activities: Facilitate workshops, tutor and mentor high school kids who are low-income and the first in their family to attend college.

Contact: Rafael Marin

Our Lady of the Road

Service Activities: Prepare and serve breakfast, wash dishes, do laundry, and clean up facility at closing time

Contact: Aimee Shelide

Real Services, Inc.

Service Activities: Delivering meals, group yard work, advocacy, painting

Contact: Dee Pasternak

Reins of Life, Inc.

Service Activities: To provide equine assisted activities and therapies to children and adults with special needs.

Contact: Christine Flowers

Robinson Community Learning Center

Service Activities: Tutor, assist with Take Ten violence prevention program

Contact: Christy Burgess

Salvation Army

Service Activities: Welcome and assist clients, perform surveys, adopt a family

Contact: Liz Kurtz

South Bend Community School Corporation Adult Education Department

Service Activities: Tutor adults to prepare them for the GED, learn English as a second language, and gain job skills

Contact: Gayle Silver

South Bend Community School Corporation (SBCSC) Bilingual Services Department

Service Activities: Provide tutoring to students in Grades 2-10 in various subject matter areas (english, social studies, science, math)

Conact: Bill Barnes

South Bend Community School Corporation Partnership/ Read to a Child

Service Activities: Read to/with students in grades K-4 once a week for 30 minutes

Contact: Connie Moore

S-O-S of Family Justice Center

Service Activities: Staff the 24 hour crisis line, work with victims over the phone and in person at local emergency rooms; comprehensive training is offered 3 times a year

Contact: Annie Envall

South Bend Juvenile Correctional Facility

Service Activities: Tutor and mentor boys, coordinate religious services, other programs approved by administration.

Contact: Beverly Williams

St. Joseph Regional Medical Center Outreach

Service Activities: Trained students are able to room patients, provide clerical assistance, stock exam rooms, and in some cases shadow physicians

Contact: Michelle Peters

St. Margaret's House

Service Activities: Help with the reception desk, orient new guests, help with lunch preparation, assist with toiletry bags and diapers, help in the pantry and clothes closet, assist with clerical needs

Contact: Patricia Marvel

St. Vincent De Paul Society of St. Joseph County

Service Activities: Work in food pantry, assistance office, thrift store operations, conference services, or non-profit administration

Contact: Laura Baker

Stone Soup Community

Service Activities: Work with low-income clients with immediate crisis need

Contact: Beverly Torres

Take Ten

Service Activities: Student volunteers are trained to work in teams to go to local schools once per week and implement our curriculum.  Students plan and teach the lessons to all grades of children.

Contact: Ellen Kyes

United Way of St. Joseph County

Service Activities: Involvement in projects including Volunteer Income Tax Assistance, Special Projects, 2-1-1, People Gotta Eat, Community Education Impact Council

Contact: Karen Sommers

Women's Care Center

Service Activities: Greet clients, answer phones, sort donations, help in the Crib Club store, write thank you notes

Contact: Ellen Sommer

Youth Service Bureau of St. Joseph County

Service Activities: Street outreach, recreation, tutoring, and reflection at the runaway center for teens, research projects, program evaluation, data management

Contact: Bonnie Strycker

YWCA of St. Joseph County

Service Activities: Fundraising, reading to children, working in Shelter Office, training to be court monitors

Contact: Amanda Hart Ceravolo