Volunteer Opportunities

The following volunteer opportunities are available at Family Services of Northeast Wisconsin. Please complete the interest form at the bottom of this page to apply.

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Coming Home Project  (Green Bay)

Program Description: The Coming Home Project is a community-based, after-school and summer program that promotes positive self-esteem, good decision making, and positive peer relationships. The program targets minority youth and offers educational support, recreational activities, and opportunities for creative expression, including t-shirt printing. Family Services currently operates a Southeast Asian site and a Hispanic site, though youth of any nationality are welcome to attend.

Volunteer Requirements: Must be at least 18 years of age.

Volunteer Duties: Volunteers may assist in tutoring, recreational activities, community service, supervision of field trips, or the running of process groups. Volunteers have the flexibility to participate in the activities that interest them.

Volunteer commitment hours: Minimum time commitment is 3 hours a week (one day per week). Hours of operation are September through May: 2:30 - 7:00 pm and June through August: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm.

Day Treatment  (Fox Valley)

Program Description: Day Treatment provides intensive counseling services to children and adolescents who are exhibiting behavioral and/or emotional problems. The program offers individual and family counseling, group therapy, and educational assistance, helping parents to set goals for their child and monitor progress toward achieving those goals.

Volunteer Requirements: Must be at least 18 years of age, have a good driving record, reliable transportation, proof of liability car insurance, and complete a background check.

Volunteer Duties: Volunteers in this program would transport up to three youth, ages 8-13, to and from the Day Treatment facility in Appleton.

Volunteer commitment hours: As needed. Days may vary, typically Monday - Friday mornings, 7:30 - 8:30 am and afternoons 1:30 - 3:30 pm.

Parent Connection  (Menasha, Oshkosh)

Program Description: Parent Connection supports families in the Fox Valley area by providing a variety of services including: educational workshops on a variety of parenting issues, family fun events, an early-learning home-based visitation program for first-time parents, a mentoring program for teen parents, and more.

Volunteer Duties:  

Resource Library Assistant: Organize and catalog books, videos, toys, and tapes for resource library; design a check-out/check-in system. 1-2 hrs per week.

Workshop Registrar: Assist facilitators on first day of workshop signing people in, setting up meeting room and organizing child care workers. Dates and times vary - usually evenings, approximately one hour a week.

Child Care Workers: Assist in supervision of children (infant to 11 years) while parents participate in workshops. Occasionally weekday mornings. This is a paid position.

Playgroup Facilitator: Commit to three hours per week facilitating a play group for parents

and children, infant to age four.

Family Fun Event Volunteer: Assist staff and event organizer with games and crafts the day of the event. Children’s activities, serving food, registering families. Events in March, and September. You can sign up for as many as you like. Community Affairs Representatives help staff at information tables during community events.

Teen Mentor: Be a mentor to a teen parent, male or female. Click here for more information

about our Teen Mentor program.

Volunteer Commitment Hours: A weekly to monthly commitment.

Safe Exchange Program   (Appleton)

Program Description: The mission of the Safe Exchange Program is to provide a neutral, child friendly environment to bring about the physical transfer of children without contact between their placement and non-placement parents whereby the children will be assured a safe exchange free from parental conflict and violence.

Volunteer Requirements: Prefer college students enrolled in a Human Services program or related field. Some experience working with families and children is required. Must be 18 years or older.

Volunteer Duties: Volunteers will help provide a neutral and safe environment for children during the physical transfer of the child without contact between parents.

Volunteer Commitment Hours: No specific amount required.

Sexual Assault Center  (Green Bay)

Program Description: The Sexual Assault Center provides advocacy, support and information to victims of sexual assault/abuse and their families and/or friends. These services are provided in Brown, Door and Oconto Counties.

Volunteer Requirements: Volunteers must be at least 18 years of age. No experience necessary, will train. Access to transportation needed.

Volunteer Duties: Volunteers assist in maintaining the 24-hour coverage of the Sexual Assault Center hotline, provide information and referrals to callers, respond to requests for advocates while on call, provide legal, medical and emotional support to victims and their friends/families.

Volunteer Commitment hours: Volunteers staff the 24-hour hotline at least 2 times per month according to their own availability and agree to remain a volunteer for a minimum of one year.

Teen Court  (Green Bay)

Program Description: Teen Court is a program for juveniles, ages 12-16, who commit non-violent ordinance violations. The offenders admit their guilt in municipal court and can voluntarily enter the Teen Court system. There they will receive a sentence from a teen jury as an alternative to the municipal court sentence. High school volunteers are trained to act as lawyers, clerks, bailiffs, and jurors in order to determine an appropriate sentence for the teen defendant.

Volunteer Requirements: Must be in grades 9-12 or a past defendant, respect the oath of confidentiality, and demonstrate maturity and sensitivity.

Volunteer Duties: Teen Lawyers question the defendant and the defendant's parent to make sentence recommendations. Clerks announce the case and swear-in the defendant and parent Bailiffs help maintain order during the proceedings. Jurors listen to testimony before deliberating and arriving at a final sentence.

Commitment Hours Required: Court proceedings are held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Volunteers must attend an initial training session, and should be able to attend court 1-2 times each month, although this is flexible. Volunteers are asked to participate for at least six months.    NOTE: We also need Attorneys of Law to volunteer as judges.

Volunteers in Probation (Green Bay)

Program Description: Volunteers in Probation (VIP) is designed to divert people who have broken the law for the first or second time, from doing so again.  One of the main diversionary tactics used is the volunteer, who serves as a mentor to a program participant, providing guidance & support during the probation period.

Volunteer Requirements: Must be 21 years of age or older and willing to sign and endorse confidentiality policies.  The volunteer must be able to attend a short interview & orientation, and willing to attend occasional informational sessions offered to all VIP volunteers.

Volunteer Duties: Volunteers are matched one-on-one with a client to help monitor progress on required conditions & assist the client in developing better life skills, a positive attitude & better decision-making skills.

Volunteer Commitment Hours:  Able to meet with a client twice a month for a total of 3-5 hours each month. Should be available for at least a six-month period.