Connection between Northland Safe Families-Host family and biological family, visit once a week and guide the Northland Safe Families-Host Family as they encounter the joys and struggles check up on the children in the Northland Safe Families-Host family. Requirement: complete Bethany Christian Services application process including background check and fingerprinting.
Liaison with Bethany Christian Services as calls for placement are acquired and place with Northland Safe Families-Host Family. Coordinator activities of the Northland Safe Families program roles: case coach, mentors, family friend and transporters. Requirement: complete Bethany Christian Services application process including background check and fingerprinting.
Transport children to the Safe Families-Host family and obtain the required paperwork from biological family and Host Family. Requirement: complete Bethany Christian Services application process including background check and fingerprinting. (minus home visit of the application process)
Provide general assistance to the other volunteers in the Northland Safe Family Program. E.g. donate diapers, formula and gently used baby equipment or professional services.
Come alongside the biological parent as a mentor and guide, to help them make the necessary changes in their lives through modeling, conversation, and assistance in accessing social services. Requirement: complete Bethany Christian Services application process including background check and fingerprinting.
Host children in your home until crisis for biological family is resolved. Two fold ministry, caring for the children and offering yourself up to an on-going relationship with the biological parents, a spiritual extended family. Requirement: complete Bethany Christian Services application process including background check and fingerprinting.
Join in with other Northlanders interested in the topic of human trafficking. The task force (or information group) meets monthly with other churches through the community to discuss and define practical ways to fight the injustice of Human Trafficking within our community and beyond.
Mentor men and women who have returned from incarceration and currently in the Healing and Transition Program. Show God’s love and encourage accountability.
Enter intake forms into the computer program each week from the jail classes and re-entry program.
Serve mens and women in Seminole County jail by facilitating live worship by setting up equipment and providing a positive presence in the jail. Security clearance required and training provided.
Sets room up, prepares for speakers, and cleans up after meetings.
Set up and staff disaster response booths during expo’s throughout the community.
Assist with planning, set up of tables, bin preparation, and staffing of booths during the Disaster Response Weekend.
Assist families in completing the necessary paperwork for those who may need a special needs shelter during a time of disaster.
Looking for individuals that are willing to buddy up with seniors to visit or call before or after a disaster. Transport to a shelter or provide a place for them to stay.
Coordinate and Liason Host Families connection to our partner agency, Bethany Christian Services. Light administrative activities.
Assist with data entry, grant writing, and telephone calls for all SERVE:ministries.
Assist the Family Advocacy Office team with various administrative tasks including photocopying, filing, preparing folders, data entry, organizing and more.
Co-facilitates/facilitates job readiness training and or budget coach with theFamily Advocacy Office program for Seminole County Homeless families with school aged children. Training provided.
Work with one Seminole Co. homeless family with school aged children for 10 hours a month for about a period of three months connecting them to community resources, both school and other related agencies. Training provided.
Willing to do odd jobs for the elderly such as minor home repairs, rides to doctors appointments, meal deliveries, reading, teaching about elder abuse and odd jobs.
Obtain speakers. Set up room, prepare for speakers and clean up after monthly meeting.
Assist in organizing, copying, and preparing material for Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) classes.
Looking for CERT trained individuals willing to help teach the CERT course here at Northland.
Prepares and sets up coffee, water, snacks for various meetings and trainings. Provides a welcoming atmosphere for volunteers and potential volunteers at meetings.
Performs various tasks throughout the week including data entry, photocopies of lessons for jail classes and preparation for monthly meetings or phone calls to volunteers.
Individuals needed to train to assist with the Seminole County Emergency Operation Center- Training provided.
Individuals will serve as a shelter manager during a local disaster. Training provided.
Receives prayer request from all services in correctional facilities and inputs them into the prayer request data base for Northland website. Training provided.
Coordinates incoming correspondence from jails and prisons and assigns inmates to potential pen pals. Training Provided.
Helps to complete minor home repair following storm damage like putting tarps over roofs and boarding up windows.
Coordinates volunteers scheduled to facilitate worship services for the weekend. Maintains and stocks needed supplies for worship services to be picked up by volunteers. Training Provided.
Assist with registration and coordination of volunteers within the impacted areas.
Assists with set up and tear down of equipment including tents during a deployment.
Assist in making site visits to our local partners.
Attend weekly mentor class in Seminole County Jail for men and women. Teach prepared lessons and be a positive presence for the men and women each week.
Assist in helping to engage local partners.
Assist with site clean up, debris removal, raking, sweeping and possible chain saw use.
Collect supplies from donations that have come in that can be used in the Downtown Homeless Ministry and arrange pick up or delivery.
Willing to volunteer time to do minor construction projects with families that have been vetted through the LifeHope process. All construction trades needed.
Cleans and organizes the black trailer. Maintains inventory of black trailer.
Assist at point of distribution sites to distribute food, water, ice and other goods following a disaster
Assist driver in the delivery of red bags to two schools every other week. Some light lifting required.
Willing to serve by providing prayer, counseling, spiritual guidance, coping information, and stress management to survivors and first responders.
Drives Northland truck to deliver red bags to two schools every other week. Some light lifting required.
Drives sorted red bags to warehouse for storage.
Monitors Northland lobby every 3-4 days for late Red Bags and delivers to warehouse for 1 month following the event.
Looking for individuals that can serve by providing emotional and spiritual support on a monthly basis during our local disaster response outreach events.
Assist with picking up red bags delivered by congregation, sort, and package for delivery to warehouse.
Medical professionals needed to assist during monthly outreach events doing such things as blood pressures, teachings, and screenings.
Guide and answer questions for volunteers during the local serve days. Requires meeting before day of event.
Prepares and sets up coffee, water, snacks for various meetings and trainings. Provides a welcoming atmosphere for volunteers and potential volunteers at meetings.
Signs in volunteers during Local Serve Day & assists with handing out tee shirts.
Prepares signs, hangs banners, assists with set up & clean up of The Rink.
Medical professionals needed who can deploy on short notice during a disaster and willing to stay for 5-7 days.
Assist the New Moves program with various administrative tasks including photocopying, filing, preparing folders, data entry, organizing and more.
Walk alongside families in need for several months, providing resources and guidance. Training provided.
Individuals do not need to be medical but willing to do administrative tasks during deployment.
Co-facilitate/facilitates job readiness classes for LifeHope participants.
Qualified drivers needed to transport the kitchen and supply trailers to and from the disaster sites. Driver’s license check required.
Co-facilitates/facilitates life skills classes, job readiness training, and or budget coach. Training provided.
Prepares and sets up coffee, water, snacks for various meetings and trainings. Provides a welcoming atmosphere for volunteers and potential volunteers at meetings.
Coordinates with the LifeHope team and Volunteer Coordinator to serve volunteers through phone calls, emails and scheduling.
Qualified drivers needed to transport the kitchen and supply trailer to outreach events. Driver’s license check required.
Washes and waxes outside of all disaster response equipment on a monthly basis.
Assist the LifeHope team with various administrative tasks including photocopying, filing, preparing folders, data entry, organizing and more.
Meet LifeHope applicants at worship service in Longwood to greet and attend worship with them. Show God’s love through your presence.
Meet with families and individuals in need to listen, pray and help them through the LifeHope process.
Assists in maintenance and repair of kitchen equipment, set up and tear down of the mobile kitchen during deployments following a disaster.
Be part of the LifeHope team preparing paperwork and some research for eligibility of applicants.
Assists in maintenance and repair of kitchen equipment, set up and tear down of the mobile kitchen with our monthly outreach events.
Serve at the front desk of the Care Center Building each week with a smile and create a welcoming atmosphere for all who enter. Duties include assisting visitors with computer access and some admin work.
Help to clean our mobile kitchen after cooking events and upon return from a disaster.
Prepares and sets up coffee, water, snacks for various meetings and trainings. Provides a welcoming atmosphere for volunteers and potential volunteers at meetings.
Help serve food prepared in our mobil kitchen during a deployment.
Review and modify descriptive information on Central Florida service providers in our resource catalog of service providers. Research new social service providers via the internet that would be added to our resource catalog of 1100+ providers. Training is provided.
Help serve food prepared in our mobile kitchen during our local outreach events.
Review new registration requests for user IDs for the Northland’s community on Thecommon.org, oversee new service project descriptions as well as to email documentation on the tool’s social code and how-to instructions to new users.
Helps cook in the mobile kitchen during a disaster. Food Handler Training required and provided periodically or online.
Prepare training materials for case manager academy. Make photocopies, and light computer work.
Train potential volunteer case managers for benevolence and family advocacy program.
Helps cook in the mobile kitchen during our local outreach events. Food Handler Training required and provided periodically.
Connect within social service organizaitons within the Seminole County community (e.g. civic and church organizations) to share awareness of FAO program and obtain new FAO resource advocate recruits and potential resources for homeless families
Assists cooks in the mobile kitchen by prepping food for our monthly outreach. Food Handler Training required and provided periodically.
Assists cooks in the mobile kitchen by prepping food during disasters. Food Handler Training required and provided periodically.
Mentor men and women who have returned from incarceration and currently in the Healing and Transition Program. Show God’s love and encourage accountability.
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Good News Jail and Prison Ministry
Harvest Time International
Healthcare Center for the Homeless
Hospice of the Comforter
Jobs Partnership
Pathways to Care
The Sharing Center
Young Life
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