Children and families need your time, your muscle, your expertise and skills, and your ability to raise funds and friends. Book drives, backpacks and school supplies, Thanksgiving food, holiday toys, Family Fun Fair as well as fundraising events like the Children’s Circle of Friends. (contact volunteer@forthechild.org or call (562) 422-8472 for more information.)
Parenting well is not always easy or intuitive. For the Child provides a variety of parent education classes for challenged parents. Classes are 1.5 to 2 hours weekly. To encourage and enable attendance, we provide childcare to ensure their children are well-cared for and safe. Have fun playing, reading and doing projects in our lobby with the children while they await their parents.
Experienced RV/Truck drivers are needed for a morning or afternoon to drive our 36' mobile therapy unit to local school sites and back to the office. Drive takes from 30 minutes to 1 hour a.m. or p.m.
Respond to emergency calls when a young child (through age 14) has been sexually assaulted. Meet the child and family at a hospital in Long Beach, San Pedro or Torrance to serve as the child’s advocate on the Sexual Assault Team. Help the child through the forensic exam and give the parents referrals for assistance. Requires 40 hours of training, provided by For The Child. Bilingual volunteers (Spanish /Khmer/other) needed also. Day, Evening and Weekend shifts.
Children’s Waiting Rooms in Long Beach, Antelope Valley, Santa Monica and Pomona courthouses provide a safe haven for children (infant to 13 in most, 2.5 to 13 in others) while their parents take care of their adult legal business/proceedings. This fun project provides a volunteer an opportunity to assist childcare staff in playing, reading, and doing arts and crafts or music projects with the children while they wait for their parents to complete court business. Daytime M-F. 9 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4 schedules available daily.
An experienced "techy" needed to assist in getting For The Child' message, events, volunteer opportunities and education out to the community on Facebook et al. (contact volunteer@forthechild.org or call (562) 422-8472 for more information.)
Call 562-422-8472 to volunteer or for any of the opportunities listed,
please click here, fill in the form, print it, and mail it in.
For The Child does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious creed, ancestry, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), marital status, sexual orientation (heterosexuality, homosexuality and bisexuality), medical condition (cancer and genetic characteristics), or disability (medical and physical, including HIV and AIDS), and denial of family medical care leave and pregnancy leave in the delivery of services in or in the opportunities to volunteer.