Affiliated Partners
Ability First
Enthusiastic, dedicated volunteers are vital to Ability First! Without people who give of themselves, their time and their talents, we simply would not be able to provide the outstanding programs and services that make such a difference in the lives of children and adults with disabilities. Volunteers work in our programs under the supervision of Ability First staff. They may provide one-on-one assistance to children or adults, encouraging participation, keeping activities going, and have fun! Volunteers – especially the members of our Foothill Guild -- are also essential to staging the many events and fundraising activities that take place at our center. And, they help keep our facility running smoothly by performing a variety of important office tasks. To learn more about volunteering at Ability First’s Claremont Center, email Center Director Julie Martin or phone (909) 621-4727.
Amy's Farm
Amy's Farm is a program of the non-profit Southern California Agricultural Land Foundation (SCALF). They stress equitable access to healthy food is foundational to urban sustainability, as is the preservation of local space to grow this food. They have structured their community supported food program to further these goals. Amy’s farm is a local family organic farm wherein students provide assistance with the farm’s organic vegetable gardens, animal ranch, memorial and educational gardens, CSA (home delivery of organic produce) and farmer’s markets harvests and distribution, and new urban farm outreach programs. Interested parties should contact CEC's Director, Tessa Hicks Peterson.
Clearance Requirements:
Liability Waiver; Photo Release; CEC Ethics Contract; attend mandatory CEC Orientation
Bernard Field Station
The Robert J. Bernard Biological Field Station, an academic resource of Claremont University Consortium provided to The Claremont Colleges, is located within the Claremont Colleges Campus in Claremont, CA. The field station program currently uses approximately 75 acres of CUC land and an additional 11 acres leased to the BFS by Harvey Mudd College until May 31, 2009. Habitat is primarily coastal sage scrub, Riversidian alluvial fan scrub, live oak forest, and grassland. In addition, an artificial lake with surrounding riparian woodland and several created vernal pools add to habitat diversity. The BFS Mission is: To provide facilities and ecological communities for high-quality teaching and research experiences in the biological, environmental, and other sciences, to the students, faculty, and staff of the Claremont Colleges. FMI Jennifer_Gee@cuc.claremont.edu.
The California Wilderness Coalition
The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal. CWC is the only organization dedicated to protecting and restoring California's wild places and native biodiversity on a statewide level. The California Wilderness Coalition seeks student volunteers and interns to help protect wilderness! Interns are persons who work for the purpose of fulfilling educational objectives and receive no compensation or benefits in return from the CWC. Interns typically work 2-10 hours per week (arranged). Interested volunteers should contact the Upland office at 909-946-1855 or email info@calwild.org.
Clearance Requirements:
Liability Waiver; Photo Release; CEC Ethics Contract; attend mandatory CEC Orientation
Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice (CCAEJ)
CCAEJ is a nonprofit of united communities who find common interest in demanding environmental change for their afflicted communities. CCAEJ and students volunteering there are involved in grassroots organizing around environmental crises in San Bernardino and Riverside, including issues of air quality, land use, toxic dumping, perchlorate poisoning and others. Interested parties should contact admin@ccaej.org.
Clearance Requirements:
Liability Waiver; Photo Release; CEC Ethics Contract; attend mandatory CEC Orientation
City of Ontario: Department of Recreation and Community Services
The City of Ontario has established youth and teen service centers throughout the city that provide a safe and supervised location for youth to go after school. They provide free services such as physical fitness, sports, cooking, theatre, yoga and tai chi, ESL and computer classes, family events, and arts and crafts. Student interns are welcomed to get involved with any of the existing activities as well as propose programs of their own. Interested parties should contact CEC's Director, Tessa Hicks Peterson.
Clearance Requirements:
Liability Waiver; Photo Release; CEC Ethics Contract; attend mandatory CEC Orientation
Claremont After School Programs (CLASP)
Student Liason: Uriel Rafael
Program Director: Maia Dean (909) 204-0127 clasp.office@gmail.com
*Volunteer application available at: www.clasp4kids.org
CLASP offers homework help and after-school recreation to low-income elementary students from at four different locations near Pitzer's campus. All are within bike/walking distance and 5 minutes via car. Tutoring schedules are flexible, but tutors must commit to attending regularly. This is an exciting opportunity to get involved in the local community! You will make a valuable and rewarding contribution to the lives of children, while learning from them and enjoying their company.
CLASP Location |
Claremont Village Apartments |
Claremont Presbyterian Church |
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church |
Wheeler Park |
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965 W Arrow Hwy |
1111 N. Mountain Ave. |
1700 N Towne Ave. |
626 Vista Drive |
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Volunteer Windows |
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M, T, Th |
M, T 2:30-4:30 |
W 1:30-3:30 |
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Ages of Children |
Kindergarden- 6th Grades |
3rd -6th Grades |
Kindergarten- 3rd Grades |
1st- 3rd Grades |
4th -6th Grades |
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Clearance Requirements:
Liability Waiver; Photo Release; CEC Ethics Contract; attend mandatory CEC Orientation and CLASP volunteer registration form.
County of Los Angeles, Department of Public Health (DPH), Acute Communicable Disease Control Program (ACDC)
Are you interested in health and social justice? Are you curious to understand the basics of public health and infectious disease prevention? There is no need wait until you’ve graduated from Pitzer to discover the world of your local public health department and the communities served by its programs. The mission of the County of Los Angeles, Department of Public Health, Acute Communicable Disease Control Program (ACDC) is to prevent and control communicable disease in Los Angeles County using the tools of surveillance, outbreak response, education, and preparedness activities. ACDC’s Planning and Evaluation Unit develops, facilitates, and analyzes innovative, collaborative, interdisciplinary, community-based infectious disease prevention projects. The selected student intern must make a commitment to this internship by traveling to ACDC’s headquarters, located in downtown Los Angeles (reachable by MetroLink train and a brief DASH bus ride from Union Station) and assisting the Unit in diverse tasks for a minimum of four hours per week throughout the semester or summer. Contact Elaine Waldman, Pitzer Alumnae (Anthropology)
Email: ewaldman@ph.lacounty.gov
Telephone: (213) 989-7214
Program website: http://www.ph.lacounty.gov/acd/
Requirements: Volunteer application, background check, completed agreement of understanding of DPH policies, ID badge, a series of mandatory orientation sessions held in the City of Commerce, and ongoing online training.
Energy Service Corps
Energy Service Corps is a joint project of CalPIRG and Americorps, with chapters on college campuses across California, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Colorado. We serve the community through energy efficiency projects and programs, focusing primarily on education and outreach. Our goal is to educate every child in Claremont in the next three years about energy and its impact on the environment. We also want to give 250 free home energy surveys to area residents to help them realize energy and money savings. Last, we want to do ten energy upgrades/weatherization events at area homeless shelters, food banks, or other community resources. To get involved as either a volunteer or an intern-coordinator, please contact the 5C Campus Organizer Ari Frink at ari@energyservicecorps.org, or call at (916) 276-9788.
First Street Gallery Art Center
First Street Gallery Art Center is founded on the proposition that human potential for creativity and artistic expression is not limited by physical or intellectual disabilities. Through cultivation of artistic expression, people with significant challenges can develop creatively and make important contributions to the cultural and economic life of their communities. First Street Gallery provides clients with professional art training and exhibition resources. In the Center’s studio, more than 50 artists create original works of art in a range of media including: painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture and collage. First Street’s staff is made up of professional artists whose role it is to help facilitate these projects and provide guidance when needed. Internships are available in the following areas: art instruction, arts management, development/fundraising. Contact Program Director Rebecca Hamm at rhamm@tierradelsol.org or (909) 626-5455.
Foothill AIDS Project
Provides services to individuals throughout eastern Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and western Riverside counties in four core program areas: 1) HIV/AIDS medical case management and supportive care centers, including mental health and substance abuse treatment, food, and transportation services; 2) HIV Education and Risk Reduction for Communities of Color; 3) HIV/AIDS-specific housing case management services; and 4) housing services for the general homeless population. Click here for volunteer application.
Clearance Requirements:
Liability Waiver; Photo Release; CEC Ethics Contract; attend mandatory CEC Orientation; TB test and FAP volunteer application form.
Foundations Class at Claremont High School
Looking for volunteers to help at-risk freshman high school students. Volunteers needed Tuesdays and Thursdays 10am-12pm though this time/day may be negotiable. Interns would work with two sets of students on content area concepts and reading as well as provide a positive role model for students. Interested parties should contact CEC. Within walking distance.
Clearance Requirements:
Proof of a current TB test (within the last 6 months); CUSD district volunteer form; Liability Waiver; Photo Release; CEC Ethics Contract; attend mandatory CEC Orientation
Garey High School
This Pomona public high school has a substantial drop-out rate, teen pregnancy rate, domestic violence rates and could use the help of college mentors or and/or additional support programs. Pitzer students work at Garey as mentors, program facilitators /assistants and college counselors. Students founded and co-facilitate a unique program called “Girl Talk” for teen girls to create a safe space to talk about issues of peer-pressure, healthy relationships, substance abuse, family crises and abuse or violence. Interested parties should contact Karen Rogel at Karen.Rogel@pomona.k12.ca.us . Pitzer Vans may be available.
Clearance Requirements:
TB Test; PUSD Volunteer Application; Liability Waiver; Photo Release; CEC Ethics Contract; attend mandatory CEC Orientation
Harvest and Deliver Internship Program
Harvest and Deliver was created by Mary E. Petit because she was passionate about organic gardening, nutrition, urban agriculture how all this can help provide healthy food to our youth, the underserved, and the homeless.The main goal of the program is to help maintain a volunteer fruit picking program that supplies fresh produce to local food banks and kitchens that feed the homeless. Interested parties should contact Mary E. Petit.
Contact :Mary E. Petit
740 West 26th Street, Upland CA 91784
Home: 909-608-7438
Cell/Text: 941-276-1150
Clearance Requirements:
Release Form
Hope through Housing
Hope Through Housing Foundation is based in Rancho Cucamonga and provides supportive services to low income families and seniors. For school age youth in grades K-12, Hope offers after school programming located on site in learning centers. The programming is focused on building positive relationships between adults and kids, homework help, access to computers/ internet, a violence prevention/ character development program, reading literacy, healthy snack/ physical recreation, and enrichment programs. Looking for interns, volunteers, and paid staff to help with our programs. Interested parties should contact CEC Office Manager Tricia Morgan.
Clearance Requirements:
TB Test; Live Scan; Hope through Housing Volunteer Application; Liability Waiver; Photo Release; CEC Ethics Contract; attend mandatory CEC Orientation
House of Ruth
House of Ruth’s mission is to advocate for and assist women victimized by domestic violence and children exposed to violence in transforming their lives by providing culturally competent shelter, programs, opportunities and education; and to contribute to social change through intervention, education, prevention programs and community awareness.
Clearance Requirements:
Liability Waiver; Photo Release; CEC Ethics Contract; attend mandatory CEC Orientation.
Inland Congregations United for Change (ICUC)
Through community organizing, youth leaders are making change around issues of violence and racism among youth in the Inland Empire. ICUC has been successful in uniting schools, neighborhoods, religious congregations and others to mobilize for change. Pitzer students have been involved in community organizing, conducting ongoing research and organizing actions for social change. Inland Empire youth serviced by ICUC are in need of college mentorship. Days/times may vary. Interested parties should contact Pitzer in Ontario faculty Tom Dolan.
Clearance Requirements:
Liability Waiver; Photo Release; CEC Ethics Contract; attend mandatory CEC Orientation
Inland Hospice Organization
For nearly 30 years the Inland Hospice Association has provided reliable, professional & comprehensive care & volunteer support to persons who are critically, chronically or terminally ill, as well as supportive services to the family members and other caregivers of these patients. The skilled team of professionals and trained volunteers work together to offer assistance, comfort and education through a variety of programs including general medical assistance services, general social assistance services, medical equipment loan services, bereavement counseling services and patient caregiver support services.
Jovenes-Street Soccer LA
The Mission of Jovenes, Inc. (Youth, Inc.) is to bring opportunities to disenfranchised youth and families that enable them to become active and integrated members of the community. It primarily fulfills its mission by providing Housing and Supportive Services to youth between the ages of 18-24 who are experiencing homelessness. Jovenes also offers a wide variety of community based services to at-risk populations in Boyle Heights and East LA. Jovenes’s Street Soccer LA targets homeless youth (men and women) between the ages of 18-24. Street Soccer is a growing international movement that uses sports as an effective tool to combat homelessness. Jovenes conducts outreach and practice at different parks throughout Boyle Heights in order to increase the number of homeless youth who are accessing available housing and supportive services, and to motivate our current residents to continue setting and reaching their goals.
Faculty Liaison Nigel Boyle nboyle@pitzer.edu
Contact Johny Figueroa jfigueroa@jovenesinc.org
KIWA (Korean Immigrant Worker Advocates)
KIWA's mission is to empower low wage immigrant workers and to develop a progressive constituency and leadership amongst low wage immigrant workers in Los Angeles that can join the struggle in solidarity with other underrepresented communities for social change and justice. Volunteer your time and learn about our projects and campaigns. KIWA welcomes interns and volunteers from concerned members of the community. College students can intern for class credit and law school interns in particular are needed to help do research on campaigns. Spanish-speakers are always desired to help communicate with workers. Click here to access Community Organizing Internships and Volunteer Positions. Please call Liz Sunwoo at (213) 738-9050 for more information.
Lideres Campesinas
Represents a culmination of decades of work by farm working women (Campesinas). Farm worker women have been the leaders of many grass roots and mobilizing efforts to improve the lives of farm worker communities. Líderes Campesinas provides these long-time leaders and activists with the opportunity to coordinate their work statewide and has built collectives so that campesinas may become agents of change and be a more effective unified voice.
Email: LideresCampesinas@hotmail.com
Phone: (805) 486-7776
Literacy for All in Monterey Park (LAMP)
Since 1984, Literacy for All of Monterey Park (LAMP) has been a leader in adult and family literacy programs. They work to improve human lives by providing high-quality, learner-centered literacy services to the San Gabriel Valley at no cost. Trained volunteers in one-to-one, small group, and classroom settings provide tutoring and instruction. Interested parties should contact Pitzer Faculty Kathy Yep.
LULAC National Educational Service Center (LNESC)
The LNESC MODEL Program provides students at Emerson Middle School in Pomona with one-one-one mentoring relationships. This is a great opportunity for college students to create a bond with a youth and serve as encouraging, positive role models. Mentoring sessions run for two hours and fifteen minutes each day. Interested parties should contact
Marianna Morón: National Program Manager
(202) 835-9646 Ext. 114
mmoron@lnesc.org
Montessori
Exciting opportunity to design and run your own programs with pre-school children . Montessori in Montclair (near the mall) is looking for self-starters to share their interests with kids. Enjoy gardening? Soccer? Painting? Math? This site is very open to student run programming so contact us if you have an idea - work alone or team up with friends. Each program is for 2-6 year olds and can run M-F after 2:30pm. Interested parties should contact CEC. Within biking distance.
Clearance Requirements:
Interview; TB Test; Live Scan; Liability Waiver; Photo Release; CEC Ethics Contract; attend mandatory CEC Orientation
Mount San Antonio Gardens
Mt. San Antonio Gardens is a non-profit, nationally recognized Life Care senior community, set on a beautifully landscaped campus in the college towns of Claremont and Pomona, California. With a wide choice of residences for independent living and the comfort and convenience of outstanding assisted living and skilled nursing care on campus, the Gardens' dynamic residents pursue their busy lifestyles and embrace new life-enriching experiences without the worry of home maintenance or future health care costs or needs. Their combined energy and interests fuel the vitality of this leading Continuing Care Retirement Community and help shape its policies and programs. FMI email: info@msagardens.org
Nahuatl Language And Culture Club
The Nahuatl Language and Culture Club is student-led program whose interests consist of, but are not limited to, indigenous culture and language preservation (through hands-on learning), accessible education, sustainable production & living and community-based economic models. The club is a space by which students, faculty and other interested parties may be given a forum for civic engagement at a local and global level.
Co-President: Eduardo Fernandez
Co-President: Rachel Conrad
Faculty Advisor:
Martha Barcenas-Mooradian, PhD
Associate Director
Community Engagement Center
Pomona YMCA
Do you want to be a volunteer coach?! The Pomona YMCA is looking for coaches for the upcoming T-Ball/ Baseball season.
Time commitment: Two, one hour practices a week and one, one hour game on Saturdays– includes free membership to the Y!!!
If interested, please call 909-623-6433 and ask for Fritz!
Practices begin March 29th!
Project Caring & Sharing
Contact: Pastor Brown (909) 643-5157, www.projectcaring.org
Project Caring and Sharing is a local organization that provides academic mentoring and tutoring for children of incarcerated parents and foster youth, some of whom are at risk of educational failure. The program seeks caring individuals who will help provide young people between the ages of 8 and 14 with academic and social support, direction, friendship, reinforcement and a constructive example. No transportation needed— program takes place on campus; mentors must be available to meet with their mentees weekly for at least two hours.
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Pitzer Campus: Gold Student Center Multi-Purpose Room |
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Volunteer Windows |
Monday 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. |
Wednesday 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. |
Clearance Requirements:
Interview; Application; TB Test; Live Scan; Liability Waiver; Photo Release; CEC Ethics Contract; attend mandatory CEC Orientation
Reach LA
Reach LA offers an Art Program where kids use various mediums to express themselves through art with the assistance of students; a Computer Education Program where students can work with kids to teach them the basics of word processing, Internet use and email; a Health Education Outreach Program where interns can work with kids in the Reach LA program and the surrounding community about health issues related to their every day lives; a Radio Station Program where youth run the Reach LA radio station and interns can work with the kids to produce radio programs; Youth Festivals where interns can organize and participate in youth festivals to disseminate information about Reach LA to local kids from the community; and Queer Resources where interns can be a part of fostering a positive atmosphere and building a place for gay and lesbian kids to be themselves and to seek information. Contact Professor Gina Lamb for more information or visit the Reach LA website.
Reeder Heritage Foundation
The George C. and Hazel H. Reeder Heritage Foundation welcomes volunteers and student interns interested in local history. Volunteers are needed to assist with general cataloguing of the large collection that includes objects, photographs and documents. Students interested in more focused intern projects might catalog a selected group of items or research a specific topic for the Foundation. The Foundation is working to preserve the Reeder Citrus Ranch in Montclair that was owned and occupied by members of the Reeder family for more than a century. The ranch is exemplary of the family-owned citrus farms that dominated the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Valleys for the first half of the 20th century. For more information, contact Annette Johnson at reeder@reederranch.org or 909-624-1560.
School of Arts and Enterprise (SAE)
The School of Arts and Enterprise (SAE) is a state-certified public charter high school located in the Pomona Arts Colony. SAE emphasizes two unique areas: visual and performing arts and business skills. The curriculum is delivered through a Project-Based Learning (PBL) learning approach to instruction, one which minimizes traditional lecture and recitation. Each semester students are assigned an experiential, community oriented learning project that demands research and problem solving and represents authentic, marketplace situations. Students learn by doing. Utilizing a community-based approach, students have the opportunity to participate in physical education, arts classes and after school programs throughout the Pomona Arts Colony, including the YMCA and the dA Center for the Arts. Students also interact with local artists, gallery owners, arts related businesses, entertainment companies and public agencies through internships and other coordinated activities. Interested parties should contact CEC.
Clearance Requirements:
Live Scan; Liability Waiver; Photo Release; CEC Ethics Contract; attend mandatory CEC Orientation
Soledad Enrichment Action (SEA) After-School Program
Soledad Enrichment Action (SEA) is a charter high school that provides educational opportunities to students that have not been successful in traditional schools, have been expelled from traditional schools, or have been incarcerated. Most of the students are reading far below grade level and are more than a year behind on high school credits. The school has small classroom sizes in order to provide students individualized attention. SEA has also implemented an after-school program to provide students with more personalized assistance. The goal of the after-school program is to increase students’ progress toward reaching grade-level proficiency in reading and mathematics, as well as improved performance in the four content areas: history, math, English and science. Students work one-on-one or in small groups with a teacher, teacher assistant, or tutor to complete activities that reinforce concepts learned during the week. Activities such as projects, data collection, novel reading, poetry writing, and research are utilized to expand students’ understanding of the topics being studied. Interested parties should contact CEC. For more information contact the Administrative Office
Tel: (213) 480-4200
Clearance Requirements:
Liability Waiver; Photo Release; CEC Ethics Contract; attend mandatory CEC Orientation
Study Buddies
Program Director: Dena Anderson (909) 624-6101 studybuddies@gmail.com, http://www.kidcare.org
Study Buddies, an after-school enrichment and mentoring program designed to meet the educational and sociological needs of underprivileged children, was launched in 2003 by Kid Care International. The goal of Study Buddies is to address child illiteracy by helping local K-12th grade students gain mastery in the basic skills of Language Arts and Math. The students come from schools in Ontario, Montclair, and Pomona. Study Buddies seeks 20 tutors and is within walking distance from campus.
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Kid Care International |
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Clearance Requirements:
Volunteer Application; TB Test; Live Scan; Liability Waiver; Photo Release; CEC Ethics Contract; attend mandatory CEC Orientation
Tutors for a Cause
Club Facilitator: Pitzer student Andrew Kemble akemble@students.pitzer.edu
On-campus and student run, the objective of our tutoring and mentoring program is to attend to the underserved children of our own community. By working with children of our dining hall staff, Pitzer students are able to cultivate personal and meaningful relationships with staff members who work hard for us every day, yet remain nameless faces to the majority of students served. Tutors for a Cause was founded in 2007, when members of our dining hall staff expressed concern that they could not provide their children with critical homework help. To meet this need, founder Nancy Murillo (PZ '10) envisioned a program in which Pitzer students would share both their academic and non-academic abilities with the children of our staff. Tutors and students work and learn together in Pitzer classrooms on Saturday mornings from 10 a.m. –12:00 p.m. and participate in educational and fun group events after lunch until 2 p.m. Approximately 25 tutors needed for a mix of elementary and high-school aged students.
Clearance Requirements:
Liability Waiver; Photo Release; CEC Ethics Contract; attend mandatory CEC Orientation
Faculty Advisor/ Liaison:
Martha Barcenas-Mooradian, PhD
Associate Director
Community Engagement Center
Uncommon Good
Volunteer Coordinators: Nancy Dufford and Shelley Randles (909) 625-2248
Location: 550 Harrison Ave, Claremont • send mail to: 435 Berkeley Ave. Claremont, CA 91711
*Volunteer application available at: http://uncommongood.org/?page_id=137
The Connect to College Mentoring Program is designed to inspire at-risk, low income children to stay in school, go to college and break the cycle of poverty. College students are needed as one-to-one volunteers to tutor and/or mentor middle and high school students who want to go to college. In addition to being a supportive role model and friend, each mentor and tutor helps their student envision themselves on a college campus, and inspires them by example. It's easy, fun, and flexible, and it makes a big difference in a child's life. Work/Study positions available: mentor/tutors, Connect To College Volunteer Coordinator Assistant, and Parent Leader Coordinator.
Clearance Requirements:
Liability Waiver; Photo Release; CEC Ethics Contract; attend mandatory CEC Orientation, fingerprinting; interview
Faculty Liaison:
Martha Barcenas-Mooradian, PhD
Associate Director
Community Engagement Center
Vina Danks Middle School
1020 N. Vine Ave.
Ontario, CA 91762
Contact: Mark Lim
Tel: (909) 459-2947, (909) 983-2691
Fax: (909) 459-2959
Key Issues: school success, youth outreach
4-H Mentoring Program
The 4-H Mentoring Program is a San Bernardino City Unified School District based program and is in need of qualified mentors for a 4-H sponsored science, engineering, and technology project in middle and high-school grades. Knowledge of science, engineering, and math is not necessary because the focus of the program is to offer at-risk youth a caring/listening adult while the youth learn about technology in groups during the school day. The program will begin in September 2011 and end on December 9, 2011. For a press release about one of the many events put on by 4-H for students click here. For an overview of the 4-H Mentoring Program and for more information please contact Bonnie Konowitch.
Contact: Bonnie Konowitch
Tel: (909) 797-2545