Each year, over 850 volunteers assist D.A. Blodgett for Children with the children and families we serve. These volunteer opportunities are great ways for you to help transform the lives of children in need.  Another plus, high school seniors and college students are often able to secure volunteer hours required for some degree areas by volunteering at D.A. Blodgett for Children.

Volunteer opportunities include:

• Big Brothers Big Sisters Program
• Mentors – Community Based  – mentoring children in our community 2 – 3 hours per week
• Mentors – School Based  – mentoring children in our community schools 45 minutes per week
• Mentors – Amachi  - mentoring children of incarcerated parents 1 hour per week
• Office Assistance
• Making Application Packets
• Copying
• Support for Bowl for Kids Sake and Golf for Kids’ Sake Fundraisers
• Program Assistance from Home
• Making phone calls to complete volunteer and parent surveys
• Bowl for Kids’ Sake Phone Banks (at home or DAB)
• Obtaining donations of gifts for Annual Christmas Party
• Follow up letters asking for Bowl/Golf For Kids’ Sake raffle items
• Follow up to volunteer inquiry calls
• Recruiting Bowling and Golf teams
• Program Assistance from Home

• Foster Care
• Clothing room assistants (organize the clothing room donations and care bags on a regular basis - weekly, monthly)
• Conduct a clothing drive for the clothing room
• Clothing room assistant for clinic times. The volunteer would help the foster parents when they come in for the medical clinic and need help and supervision in the clothing room.
• Make reminder phone calls for medical and dental visits - 2 days before scheduled appointments.
• Volunteer who would regularly contact businesses in the community, state, or nationally for donations for foster children and their parents.
• Bake cookies and goodies for Foster Parent events.
• Office support - filing
• Hold a garage/yard sale with the proceeds going to our clothing room needs.
• Send birthday cards to foster children and foster parents - maybe add a gift certificate for the foster child/foster parent.

• Adoption
• Department office support - copying training or home study materials.
• Filing
• Creating photo/memory albums for the kids
• Pregnancy Support—help take moms to medical appointments
• Facilitating sibling visits.

• Pregnancy Support Services
• Volunteer to mentor a pregnant or parenting teen.
• Create a care bag for a new mom and baby

• Jerome Weber Medical Clinic
• Copy/assembly Foster Parent Training Medical Information Packet
• Make Personal Protection Packets (as needed)
• Wash toys in Clinic Waiting Area
• Tidy up bookshelf area
• Education Hand Outs (Make copies, file)
• Medication Information Hand Outs (Make copies, file)

• Offices
• Filing, typing, misc.
• Lobby upkeep/decorations
• Library Organization
• Finance Department
• Foster Parent Check mailing - 10 th of the month
• Medicaid - To check Medicaid eligibility online each month for our foster children. This involves use of the Internet to check on this for approximately 200 children each month. The volunteer would work with the Business office. Estimated 2 – 3 hours/month.
• Cleaning/dusting kitchen, stairwell and blinds in the building

• Marilyn J. Olson Guild
• Meets 9 times a year to assist with agency needs, fundraising events, etc.
• Planting flowers/weeding around the agency’s three buildings
• Outdoor landscaping/Courtyard