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Lead Youth on Engaging Field Trips with Sand Point Housing!

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ORGANIZATION: Solid Ground

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Are you passionate about engaging youth in fun and educational activities?Join our volunteer team as a field trip chaperone for our youngest Sand Point Housing residents!

About Youth Field Trip Volunteers: Volunteer chaperones support Sand Point Housing staff and youth during field trips. In addition to ensuring that all youth are supervised, volunteers provide a safe, accepting environment and foster social, emotional, physical, and cognitive growth. Solid Ground covers admission costs for any activities or site visits (e.g. museums, zoo) and provides transportation from Sand Point to field trip sites.

About Sand Point Family Housing: Our Sand Point Housing campus provides permanent supportive housing, affordable permanent housing, and onsite support services for formerly homeless families. Located in Seattle’s Magnuson Park near Lake Washington, the campus includes renovated historic U.S. Navy buildings and newer construction totaling 183 townhomes and apartments. Today, 400+ people - about half of whom are children and youth - live in a thriving community with onsite support services at Sand Point.

To apply: Interested in volunteering or learning more about the opportunity? Contact Solid Ground Volunteer Services today!

BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color), and people with the lived experience of food insecurity are strongly encouraged to volunteer.

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About Solid Ground

Location:

1501 N 45TH ST, SEATTLE, WA 98103, US

Mission Statement

Our mission... Solid Ground works to end poverty and undo racism and other oppressions that are root causes of poverty. Our vision... Solid Ground believes our community can move beyond poverty and oppression to a place where all people have access to quality housing, nutritious food, equal justice and opportunities to thrive. Our values... Solid Ground is committed to working with compassion, integrity, accountability, creativity and an anti-oppression approach to end homelessness, hunger, inequality and other barriers to social justice. We value collaboration and leadership from the communities we serve.

Description

Our history...

Solid Ground was founded in 1974 by community leaders and concerned citizens of one of Seattle's then most economically devastated neighborhoods, Fremont. Originally called the Fremont Public Association, our services - emergency food bank, clothing bank, and employment program - reflected the desperate needs and determined response of a mobilized and committed neighborhood.

Solid Ground today...

As the scope and severity of homelessness and poverty have increased over the years, so too have our reach to our greater community and our range of services. Now based in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood, our 30 programs and services help more than 60,000 households each year overcome poverty and build better futures throughout King County and beyond.

CAUSE AREAS

Children & Youth
Community
Homeless & Housing
Children & Youth, Community, Homeless & Housing

WHEN

We'll work with your schedule.

WHERE

Multiple locations Seattle, WA 98101

(47.60849,-122.33641)
 

SKILLS

  • Youth Services
  • Child Care
  • People Skills
  • Relationship Building

GOOD FOR

  • People 55+

REQUIREMENTS

  • Background Check
  • Must be at least 16
  • Orientation or Training
  • Field trips are scheduled two weekdays a month in the summer and last 3-8 hours. Volunteers should be available between 9am to 5pm on field trip days – we encourage all to continue volunteering with Sand Point youth in the 2024-25 school year.
  • Applicants must (1) submit a Solid Ground Volunteer Application Form and Background Check Form, (2) clear their background check and reference checks, (3) attend a Solid Ground Orientation, and (4) interview with program staff before they begin.

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