After-school programming at Shechem at Hope Street gives kids a safe place to go after school and have fun. With this typically being the busiest time at Shechem, we need extra hands to keep life going smoothly! We are looking for people who can go with the flow and are interested in building community. This may look like playing uno with kids one day, helping with homework another, and helping with an admin task on a slower day. Many of the youth who come are middle and high schoolers.
Here are times we are looking for after-school volunteers:
Green Space (Homework Help)
The Green Space is our upstairs room at our community center. It is a space set aside for quiet work. The job of the Green Space volunteer is to have oversight over the space and be present with our members. If you are skilled in math (algebra, geometry, etc) or reading/writing, you would be a huge asset to this space!
If you are in that space and no one else is, please stay in that space. You can be:
When members are in the space, we want to see:
Classroom (Crafts and Games)
We have two downstairs classrooms. On a typical day, one of these classrooms is used for planned programming (arts, dance, music, bible studies, financial classes) while the other is more of a free flowing space where kids can choose to join in on a board game, a craft or hang out with friends. The job of the classroom volunteer is to have oversight over the space and be present with our members. Depending on the day you choose to volunteer, we might have you help out the programming provider or might have you have oversight over the more free-flowing classroom space. Oftentimes, this is a space our kids and teens enter into to hang out and have fun. We want to encourage that, but also want to encourage community building and safety.
If you are in that space and no one else is, please stay in that space. You can be:
When members are in the space, we want to see:
Gym Volunteer
We have a gymnasium, the size of a basketball court. This is our members favorite space and is most often used for basketball, though we do want to create more opportunties for volleyball, soccer, dodgeball, etc, to get more kids involved. The job of the gym volunteer is to have oversight over the gym and be present with our members. You can engage with members and help facilitate. Oftentimes, this is a space our kids and teens enter into to hang out and have fun. We want to encourage that, but also want to encourage community building and safety.
If you are in that space and no one else is, please stay in that space. You can be:
When members are in the space, we want to see:
Rooftop Volunteer (Additional Opportunity)
During nice weather days, we could definitely use an additional volunteer for to be present on our rooftop. This is a space where kids love to hang out and chat, eat, etc. We close down this space when it gets too cold, but could use rooftop volunteers each day Sep 16- end of October. You could create space for kids to play bean bag toss or badmittion, get to know the kids, etc.
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
2522 WEST CAPITOL DRIVE, MILWAUKEE, WI 53206, US
Hope Street is the Greenhouse for People on 26th and Capitol. We give broken men, women and children a safe place to grow. We cultivate hope and build community as we live out the ministry of Jesus on the northside of Milwaukee. Hope Street provides housing and healing to about 50 men, women, and children whose lives have been profoundly affected by the toxic environment they grew up in, their own choices, or drug and alcohol abuse. Empowered by the active Grace of Christ, the staff, volunteers and members cultivate a nurturing community in which we can live, learn and develop new habits that help people flourish.
Since 1999, we have provided housing and healing in the Greenhouse for People on 26th and Capitol. We started as a resource for men with backgrounds of drug and alcohol abuse and those coming from incarceration. We soon began welcoming men and women, and eventually in 2012, we began welcoming men and women coming from any form of brokenness. In 2013, when a woman found herself facing the choice of moving out of Hope Street prematurely to care for her otherwise displaced child, we let a child stay at Hope Street temporarily, which eventually turned into permanently. At that time we became the only transitional living facility in Milwaukee that allowed men, women and children, and the only facility that allowed people to stay beyond 24 months.
Located in the Garden Homes Neighborhood in the 53206 zip code, Hope Street has a 24 unit apartment building. Here, we are able to house about 50 men, women and children at any given time. Now we are building Shechem at Hope Street, a community center complete with a gym, classrooms, cafe, resource center and event spaces that will open this August. Shechem at Hope Street will provide our members who move out of Hope Street a place to remain connected. It will also give us room to welcome our neighborhood into the same sort of transformation that happens at Hope Street. Our Transplant Programming will take place in both our current building and at Shechem at Hope Street.
2510 West Capitol DriveMilwaukee, WI 53206
August 16, 2024
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