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1 person is interested
Classroom Support Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: Center for Changing Lives
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1 person is interested
Center for Changing Lives
Classroom Support Volunteer Description
Background:
The Center for Changing Lives’ vision is a community where everyone thrives. Too often lack of resources and economic opportunity limit participants’ choices and capacity to achieve their goals. CCL partners with people in order to uncover possibilities, overcome barriers, and realize their potential. This partnership can include coaching, training, educating, coalition building, advocacy, and
organizing. In order to support participants in accessing the resources and economic opportunity to achieve their vision for their life, CCL members uncover economic possibilities, overcome barriers to their financial goals, and realize their full financial potential.
Position Overview:
The Classroom Volunteer will work in collaboration with our Employment Coaches to facilitate an engaging learning environment for Center for Changing Lives’ Office Careers Training Program.
The Classroom Support Volunteer will support the class facilitator, co-facilitate, and answer student questions on class content. Topics depend on volunteer availability and include:
- Microsoft Office
- Basic Math and Language Arts Skills
- Digital Literacy
- Social Justice
- Job Readiness Training
What we require:
- Interest in nonprofit work, social justice, and adult education
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Linkedin, and basic math and language arts
- Detail oriented
- Organized with the ability to prioritize time-sensitive assignments
Details:
We are looking for volunteers to fill the following time slots through September:
- Tuesdays 10am-12 pm
- Tuesdays 12:30pm to 2pm
- Wednesdays 10am-12pm
- Wednesdays 12:30pm-2pm
- Thursdays 10am-12pm
- Thursdays 12:30pm-2pm
Please send resume, letter of interest, and any questions to LaShelle Newland-Jordan at lashelle@cclconnect.org.
More opportunities with Center for Changing Lives
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About Center for Changing Lives
Location:
1955 N. St Louis Ave, 101, CHICAGO, IL 60647, US
Mission Statement
Center for Changing Lives mission is to provide comprehensive support to serve, empower and advocate for community residents experiencing homelessness and housing instability so they may obtain and maintain permanent housing.
Description
Center for Changing Lives (CCL) is a little agency making a big impact. Successfully providing a range of innovative services, CCL brings financial coaching to a population traditionally deemed unprepared for it: Households currently experiencing or at risk of homelessness. The agency offers a mini-continuum of bundled services that include housing, financial and employment coaching coordinated and integrated with income support and homelessness prevention services. CCL is at the forefront of utilizing coaching and financial capability services to prevent and end homelessness, particularly among the predominantly Latino population on the Northwest side of Chicago. CCL believes integrated, comprehensive services delivered in a long-term, highly transformative, empowered partnership are needed to ensure households move beyond crisis to stability, from immediate considerations to future ones. That belief has informed a model that is both qualitatively and quantitatively successful and has resulted in increases in participants’ financial capability, income, and self-sufficiency.
CCL’s mission is to provide comprehensive support to serve, empower and advocate for community residents experiencing homelessness or housing instability so they may obtain and maintain permanent housing. The vision is to transform lives and inspire neighbors to build a stable, supported and connected community. Financial instability, including under- and unemployment, continues to be a leading reason why many of CCL’s clients are experiencing homelessness. In response, CCL utilizes the Center for Working Families (CWF) model to increase employment, mobilize subsidies and mainstream benefits, and reduce household fees and expenses simultaneously, taking a holistic approach to building financial stability necessary for long-term housing stability. CCL is unique in that it is the only organization using the CWF model to serve households, including single parents with children, experiencing and at-risk of homelessness who are living in shelters. By successfully utilizing this model with those experiencing homelessness, CCL is bridging the workforce, financial and homeless services systems and developing an evidence-based argument for using financial services to addresses housing instability.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
1955 North St. Louis Ave101Chicago, IL 60647
DATE POSTED
July 16, 2019
SKILLS
- Teaching / Instruction
- Adult Education
- Reading / Writing
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Orientation or Training
- 2-4 hours per shift