Community Care Initiative

Our program exists to build the communities kids need. We do that by partnering with area schools, community organizations, and individuals in the community willing to come and volunteer to provide some really awesome kids with fun activities based on any hobby or interest they are passionate about sharing. We are passionate about intentionally building relationships with the kids in our care and ensuring they feel seen, known, and understood as much as possible. We believe caring grown-ups can change the world! And we'd love to have you change it with us!

Mondays-Thursdays we have 30 students at each of our sites ready to go after-school for 45 minutes of academic time with school tutors followed by an hour of programming that encourages students to try something new, builds skills, or get curious. Our kids span the ages of 1st-6th grade and are accompanied at CCI by a site coordinator and two program aides. 

Our programming has covered topics from cooking, to dance, to STEM, to birding, to art and drawing, to book clubs, karate, basketball, acting, soccer, and board games. We encourage our volunteers to come and do their program on any activity they love to do themselves! That might look like 3-4 weeks of a volunteer programmer teaching the kids about gardening and invasive species or an entire semester of acting activities with the kids. We work with volunteers to help them create a program around anything they'd enjoy doing with a group of 10-15 kids and provide them with the support and space to do it! 

We make sure to be as flexible as we can to work with whatever time you can give. If that's a one-time presentation, a mini-series program for 3 weeks, or a whole semester program for 10 weeks- we are just grateful to get to expose our kids to as many topics as we can!