Youth Volunteer Programs
Molly Pruitt - Administrator
Year Round Opportunities
Individual and group projects and/or placements:
You can volunteer for as little as one week during the summer or one or two hours every week or as much as every day! There are many nonprofit agencies in Morgan County with opportunities for kids. Some kids have helped at the animal shelter or volunteered at the American Red Cross. Other youth have helped with Special Olympics and Ducky Derby. The Volunteer center will work with you or your group to match your interests, needs, and talents to a volunteer position. These hours may also be applied to the Presidential Service Awards.
VIVA
KIVS
Points
of Light Youth Leadership Institute
Youth
Application
Student
Service Tracking Form
VIVA - Volunteens In Volunteer Action:
This group of Morgan County teens meets weekly to assist area agencies and families. Projects range from doing yard work for those no longer able to do their own to making toys and treats for the animal shelter. We also help with community service and civic events like Taste of the Valley and Walk Your Paws. In 2007, VIVA was awarded a grant as part of Global National Youth Service Day. With these monies the group wrote and produced a video on Gang Awareness.
This is a great program for students 12 and older who want to help with a variety of projects and as their schedule allows.
Points of Light Youth Leadership Institute:
“Learn to lead; if you don’t who will?”
Our mission is to provide youth with the encouragement, peer networks and leadership skills necessary for them to make meaningful contributions to their communities and begin a life-long journey of leadership and service.
The Volunteer Center partners with Morgan County Extension Service and Decatur Youth Services as co-sponsors for the Institute. The classes focus on community analysis, goal setting, team building, project planning, decision making, and other leadership dynamics. Students also learn hands-on field exercises and complete a community service project. Thirty students will be selected. (Minimum age 13.)
Be part of the Points of Light Youth Leadership Institute. There are two sessions each year, fall and summer. Each session lasts approximately eight weeks.
For an application, contact the Volunteer Center at 355-8628
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Kids Care Clubs:
Kids Care Clubs are groups of friends who get together regularly to help their communities. Formed through church, school, scouts or just at someone’s house, KCCs become part of a network of thousands of Clubs around the world working to make a difference.
Locally, KCCs in the Extended Day Programs at Decatur City Schools have sent cards to injured soldiers, made snuggle blankets for kids in a shelter and planted seeds to give to shut-ins.
Join an existing club or form your own by contacting the Volunteer Center at 355-8628. www.KidsCare.org
Summer Opportunities:
Summer Youth Volunteer Program:
Student 12 and older can apply to volunteer at one of more than 40 Morgan County agencies during the summer. There are positions to fill almost any interest. There are activities with children, office or clerical work and hospital positions available, just to name a few. You can volunteer on your own or with a group of friends. Applications are available in March, with the interview process beginning in May.
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KIVS Kids In Volunteer Service:
KIVS is a six week “day camp” for kids 10-12 who want a try a variety of volunteer projects. Kids can meet once a week or as much as four days a week for six weeks. Each two hour morning sees the group doing a different service project around the county. These projects range from stocking food pantry shelves to delivering Meals on Wheels.
Monday-Wednesday projects are in greater Decatur, Thursday projects are in Hartselle.
Like the Summer Youth Volunteer Program, applications will be available in March. Contact the Volunteer Center at 355-8628 for more information.
Helping Hands Summer Service Day Camp:
Designed for 5-10 year olds, Helping Hands introduces young children to service through on-site projects with a storybook tie in. Meeting twice a week for two hours, this fun approach to helping others will include such activities as making toys for the animal shelter and placemats for Meals on Wheels. Time for snack and play is built in to the curriculum.
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