More than 900 people volunteered with LMM last year. If you are thinking about joining them, consider your interests and skills and review the volunteer needs listed below. If you see a program opportunity that interests you, contact the person listed. The volunteer process varies from program to program, however an application, screening and training are generally required.
Serve with People Involved with the Justice System
Community Re-Entry’s Friend-to-Friend Program invites you to be matched with someone in prison (men with men at Grafton Correctional in Lorain County, women with women at Northeast Pre-Release Center, East 30th & Orange Ave. Cleveland) to visit once a month. Inmate participants are screened. Volunteer training and staff support are provided. You need not give your friend your home address. You’re not asked to do anything you don’t already know how to do; just be a friend to someone who needs one. For more information, contact Steve Messner at 216.861.1838 or
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Women's Re-Entry Network is in need of group facilitators at the CuyahogaCountyCorrectionsCenter for a Peer Support Group (5-6:30 p.m. on Mondays) and also for a Grief/Loss Group (9-10:50 am on Tuesdays). You must apply for security clearance. If interested, please contact Barbara Wilson
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, 216-696-7535 XT 207.
Women's Re-Entry Network is looking for a volunteer to facilitate a 6-8 week group on parenting, late morning or afternoon at LMM. Experience is preferable. If interest, please contact Mary Kozina at
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to set up a meeting.
Women's Re-Entry Network is looking for a volunteer to facilitate a 6-8 week group on domestic violence, late morning or afternoon at LMM. Experience is preferable. If interest, please contact Mary Kozina at
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to set up a meeting
Serve with People with Long-Term Care Needs
Adult Guardianship Services invites compassionate, caring adults to advocate for someone who has no voice. AGS needs volunteers to serve as legal guardians for indigent, incompetent adults to make medical and residency decisions for them, in Cuyahoga County. Comprehensive training and staff support provided. Contact Beth Reid 216-696-1132 x190 or
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Or to serve with those in Lorain County with the Volunteer Guardianship Program, contact Nita Bring-Mazurek at 440.934.3613 or
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Serve with People Who are Homeless
Teach
Tutor for G.E.D. Test/
Reading: Assist studying, reading, or G.E.D. preparation.
Computer Lab: Assist the men with basic computer skills, on-line job search and resumer writing. Hours are flexible.
Job Readiness: Help residents prepare for housing in a program covering such topics as rights/responsibilities of tenant, budgeting/credit counseling.
Financial: Faciliate a Finanncial workshop, including banking, finance and credit in the Independence Community of the shelter.
Companion
Re-Entry: Accompany those transitioning into life after prison.
Recovery: Accompany someone through the stages of recovery.
Education: Assist in school application process for one who is returning to school.
Employment: Accompany someone through the process of job search, interviews, and follow-up after interviews.
Spiritual
Listening: Be a pastoral presence with a team of volunteer listeners.
More Ideas!
Kitchen: Due to cuts in 2100's food budget, the shelter is in need of volunteers to provide all or part of a meal.
CommunityGarden: Help maintain the shelter’s vegetable/flower garden.
Art: Share individual and group expression through the visual arts.
Writing: Take part in a writers’ group focusing on journaling and autobiography.
Book Club: Take part in a discussion group that uses current fiction and non-fiction books to explore ideas.
Environmental: Lend your expertise to making the shelter more energy efficient.
Micro-Enterprise: Lend your business experience in planning for entrepreneurial/job creation opportunities.
Music: Teach a few chords on the guitar, or provide keyboard skills for our shelter’s Gospel Group.
Legal: Volunteer with legal backgound to assist with Out-of-State birth certificates on a twice monthly basis; flexible hours, weekdays or evenings.
Intake: Work at the front desk of the shelter assisting with intakes of new residents; flexible hours, Monday through Friday, 3-5 p.m. Basic computer skills required.
Sewing Circle: Teach a person to mend their own clothes while creating a circle of conversation.
Youth Re-Entry Program assists youth ages 16-21 in the transition to independent living through semi-independent apartment living and a wide variety of self-sufficiency skills. Apartments need painting and maintenance; coordinator needed to organize apartment upkeep. YRP also needs volunteer tutors and life skills educators. Call Kandi Withers at 216.221.8920.
Westhaven Youth Shelter needs someone skilled in general home maintenance and upkeep; maintenance services on a regular basis would be of great benefit. Specific lunch food items are also appreciated. Contact Director Mark Hamm, 216.941.0062 or
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After School Prevention Resources needs recreation, life skills group and fitness instruction volunteers. They are also seeking homework/computer tutors, chaperones for field trips, office help and database managment, and people to assist with service learning/community service projects as well as speakers on topics of interest to teens. Contact Director Gary Mazzeo at 216.651.6841 or
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For other volunteer opportunities, please contact the program(s) you would be interested in serving with:
