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11 people are interested
Recreation Activity Support Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: New Alternatives for Children
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11 people are interested
Are you looking for volunteer experience with medically-complex children?
New Alternatives for Children (NAC) is a highly regarded child welfare agency serving children who are medically complex and/or have developmental disabilities and their families.
NAC needs a Recreation Activity Support Volunteer to assist in planning and facilitating activities and games for children of various age groups and levels of functioning while they wait to participate in their mental health and/or medical services at the agency’s state-of-the-art Comprehensive Health Center (CHC).
Recreation Activity Support Volunteers can organize activities, including interactive games and art projects, for children waiting for their medical or mental health appointments at NAC’s state-of-the-art Comprehensive Health Center. The children’s ages range from four to 17 and the children have various levels of functioning. Volunteers can make spending time in the waiting area fun!
Prior experience working with children preferred. Ideally the volunteer can commit to two hours per week: Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday at either 4:30-6:30pm or 5-7pm.
Please submit your resume and covering letter to:
Bobbi Nathanson, LMSW, ACSW
Director of Volunteers, Student Internships & Community Relations
Email: volunteers@nackidscan.org
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About New Alternatives for Children
Location:
37 West 26th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10010, US
Mission Statement
New Alternatives for Children (NAC) is a unique, award-winning child welfare agency offering strength-based social services, medical and mental healthcare and a wide variety of wrap-around services. We serve families that have at least one child with special needs, often in combination with mental health, behavioral and/or developmental diagnoses as well. NAC’s mission is to achieve safety, permanency and well-being within a family, for children who are at risk of abuse and/or neglect and have special medical and/or mental health needs among other challenges.
Description
The children referred to NAC are medically complex and their birth families have devastating social problems. Their circumstances include poverty, homelessness, domestic violence, substance abuse, immigration and language barriers, parental illness, mental health problems and illiteracy. NAC's children may use wheelchairs or be dependent on medical technology in order to live. They may have HIV/AIDS, cancer, cerebral palsy, respiratory or cardiac problems or spina bifida, among other diagnoses. Growing numbers have asthma, diabetes and diagnoses on the autism spectrum. Some of the children have spent years growing up in the hospital, others have had more surgeries than birthdays, experienced fragmented health services, prolonged hospital visits, and/or medical and educational neglect.
Despite these challenges, NAC has outstanding outcomes and is one of the highest evaluated programs by the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) among all NYC child welfare agencies (including those serving non-medically fragile children). To see our most recent impact numbers, please follow the link to our website: https://nackidscan.org/our-impact/
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
New Alternatives For Children37 West 26th Street6th FloorNew York, NY 10010
DATE POSTED
November 27, 2017
SKILLS
- Child Welfare
- Child Care
- Children Medical Services
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday - 4:30-6:30pm or 5-7pm