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3 people are interested
Budgeting Coach
ORGANIZATION: EPEC The Grooming Project
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3 people are interested
EPEC’s The Grooming Project seeks volunteers to serve as budgeting coaches to our students. We will place each volunteer with a student in their third month in the program and they will continue to work with them through graduation and into their sixth month post-graduation. In other words, this volunteer position is a nine month commitment.
For the first three months of this position, coaches will meet bi-weekly with students on Monday mornings from 9:00-9:50 at EPEC. After the student graduates, the coach will make arrangements with the student based on convenience for the coach and the student’s job schedule.
We recognize that this is a major volunteer commitment. We are emphasizing budgeting within this coaching relationship, because we have found that our students need ongoing help with this process, especially as they move into the workforce and begin to lose their government assistance. Budgeting is empowering, and we hope that this practice will help our students to build positive habits that ultimately shape a positive future for their children. The coaching relationship will be a key factor in this process.
More opportunities with EPEC The Grooming Project
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About EPEC The Grooming Project
Location:
5829 Troost Ave, Suite B, Kansas City, MO 64110, US
Mission Statement
To Empower single parents living in poverty in living wage, family flexible trades so they can do their most important job of all...raise their children out of poverty.
Description
The Grooming Project is devoted to helping impoverished families become self-reliant through job training in the high-demand, high-pay trade of pet grooming. The Grooming Project’s education-based approach not only financially empowers single parents in poverty through equipping them with credentials in a competitive market, but it also ensures that they focus on improving their family’s future as a whole through parenting and budgeting classes, mental health support, life skills courses, and other needed medical services coordinated with many local organizations.
The grooming school program entails 644 classroom hours in 23 weeks, taught by experienced instructors, and an internship in a commercial grooming salon. The parenting program teaches students the importance of active parenting, higher education, budget management, nurturing skills and resources. Each student has a volunteer mentor who meets with her or him weekly to help with household budgeting and parenting questions. Mentors are people from the community who are sensitive to the hardships our students face and encourage success.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
5829 Troost AveSuite BKansas City, MO 64110
DATE POSTED
November 2, 2018
SKILLS
- Budgeting
- People Skills
- Mental Health
- Problem Solving
- Relationship Building
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 25
- Orientation or Training
- 9 months