Service Opportunities in Our Community
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
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
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
Service Activities: Food pantry, morning outreach programs, guest computer skill development, other projects
Contact: Rev. Nancy Nichols
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
Service Activities: Preparing dinner, processing donated vegetables, cooking, and cleaning
Contact: Aimee Shelide
Service Activities: Assist with adult basic education and work-place readiness programs, front desk, and administrative work
Contact: Peter Lombardo
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
Service Activities: Assist with residnt activities, social outings, parties, and several unique fundraising activities.
Contact: Diana Dolde
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
Service Activities: Work in classrooms reading, playing, and providing individual attention to children, babysit during parent meetings
Contact: Susan Enamorado
Service Activities: Complete intakes, including crisis intervention, safety planning, needs assessments, and referrals
Contact: Sareen Lambright Dale
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
Service Activities: Assist with programs for individuals with special needs through music or dance therapy, cooking classes, and more.
Contact: Katie Teitgen
Service Activities: Children maternity home for unwed mothers; Administrative work, cleaning, yard work, cooking, childcare
Contact: Karen DeLucenay
Service Activities: Assist case managers with resident services, events planning, receptionist, tutoring adult education, serving meals, administrative assistance
Contact: Beth Morlock
Service Activities: Conduct interviews with potential clients, summarize the case into written narratives for attorney review
Contact: Heather Mezosi
Service Activities: After-school program, GED, ESL, computer and citizenship classes, youth development programs
Contact: Rebecca Ruvalcaba
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
Service Activities: Food pantry, children's junior high and high school programs.
Contact: Craig Phillips
Service Activities: Provide a range of services to individuals with disabilities.
Contact: Shelly Zabukovic
Service Activities: Numerous opportunities from one-day projects, to on-going service, to internships.
Contact: Karen C. Ainsley
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
Service Activities: Prepare and serve breakfast, wash dishes, do laundry, and clean up facility at closing time
Contact: Aimee Shelide
Service Activities: Delivering meals, group yard work, advocacy, painting
Contact: Dee Pasternak
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
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
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
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
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
Service Activities: Fundraising, reading to children, working in Shelter Office, training to be court monitors
Contact: Amanda Hart Ceravolo
