Homeless Children's Education Fund (HCEF) is seeking volunteers with prior work experience with children ages 5-14 years old to work with our Mobile Learning Program. HCEF's Mobile Learning is an innovative program that brings regular, individualized tutoring sessions directly to unstably housed students. This is a great opportunity to build kids' strengths and confidence by helping our instructors deliver a variety of fun, creative educational activities.
Volunteers will support professional tutors as they lead individualized instruction for K-8th grade students. Typical session activities consist of educational games, homework help, and social-emotional learning activities for between 1-3 students living in a single household. HCEF’s professional instructors will lesson-plan and lead tutoring activities, while volunteers support student engagement via participation in session activities, positive reinforcement, and active listening. Each tutoring session requires a volunteer to take place, so volunteers quite literally make this program possible!
Volunteers for Mobile Learning must commit to at least one 1-2 hour session per week. Session start and end times will vary based on family schedules. These session locations and times are based on accessibility to the students and their parent/caregiver. Mobile Learning will take place during after school hours (3:30 PM-6:30PM). With an HCEF Instructor and our volunteers, Mobile Learning takes place in residences, Community Centers, or our classroom on wheels (Winnie’s Wagon). Session locations are based on accessibility to the student and their parent/caregiver -- some will be on front porches, in families' living rooms, or at a nearby public space like a park or library. Volunteers must be comfortable as guests in spaces that may be unfamiliar to them at first and will need to be able to travel to sessions on their own.
To serve in this role, volunteers will need their PA Child Abuse, FBI Fingerprinting, and PA State Criminal Clearances. We also require our volunteers to attend an in-office training before being able to start supporting our Mobile Learning program.
If you are interested and wish to become a volunteer for this need, please click on the "Sign Up" radio button on the upper right corner of this screen and then email our Volunteer Specialist at volunteers@homelessfund.org to set up an initial screening meeting.