ORGANIZATION: OAKLAND SERVES
Oakland Serves is seeking volunteer mentors to help struggling high school students. Oakland Serves is a non-profit volunteer organization that seeks to reduce the dropout rate of OUSD public high school students and help them persist to graduation. We emphasize academic mentoring (get the class assignments done and turned in) as well as classical mentoring (listen, empathize, build trust, offer steady encouragement), offered by trained volunteer mentors. We work closely with the schools - they identify students at risk of dropping out and match our mentors to mentees who agree to weekly meetings. The time commitment is only once a week for about two hours during school hours.
We are looking for mentors for the Fall 2022/2023 school year. We may also be placing summer school mentors.
You can be a mentor! With a background check and short training sessions, you can help a young person graduate high school and open up their lives to new possibilities.
Any adult is welcome to apply. Please find out more or apply at www.oaklandserves.org/volunteer
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
PO BOX 19317, OAKLAND, CA 94619, US
Oakland Serves addresses a critical problem in our city: the alarming number of high school students who drop out before earning a diploma, closing the door on opportunities for well- paying jobs or further education. We work with students identified as being at highest risk of dropping out, helping them persist to graduation and thereby improving their career prospects, their personal well-being, and the quality of life in the community.
Volunteer mentors are matched with an Oakland High School student who needs support and encouragement to graduate high school. Mentors will inspire students to believe in themselves, complete their homework, and turn it in. Mentors need only be compassionate adults who can give their student the confidence and know-how to graduate with a high school diploma.
Multiple locations Oakland, CA 94610
June 6, 2022