Volunteer
The Center for Family Outreach relies on volunteer support to help make our organization a success. Our greatest need for volunteers includes administrative office duties and social marketing. Other opportunities for volunteering are listed below.
Volunteering at The Center to Help Serve Youth Means You Can:
(1) Coordinate a Celebration youth dinner once a month for youth who achieved success.
(2) Office/Administrative Work—Help with data entry, filing, printing/stocking new materials, and answering phones etc.
(3) Data Base Support—Provide technical support for developing a data base and program evaluation program.
(4) Cleaning—Get on the ‘cleaning schedule’ and recycling scheduling to help keep The Center clean and presentable.
(5) Building Maintenance—help with painting, maintenance projects around the Center. (Building shelves, fixing doors, finding office equipment)
(6) Furniture Transport—periodically assist in moving furniture and other donated items.
(7) Find items of need for the Center: TV equipment, DVD players, smart boards, white boards etc.
(8) Coordinate and maintain our food pantry for the youth who attend our programs.
(9) Special Events/Fundraising— Assist with event planning through publicity, design work, soliciting sponsors and in-kind donations.
(10) Schedule child care volunteers when families are attending parenting events at the Center.
If you are interested in volunteering with the Center, we would love to hear from you. Just fill out the brief form below or call Mary Wilson (970-495-0084, extension 609), and we will contact you with current opportunities.
Thank you for your interest in The Center. We look forward to including you in our family.
Donate
Almost everyone can picture a troubled adolescent. Perhaps the child is a family member, a neighbor or the child of a friend…
Take Jake. He is fifteen, and lives in Fort Collins with his mom and dad. He is an average student, not very involved with school or sports. Over the summer, Jake gets caught by the police with marijuana and receives a summons to court.
Jake's parents are angry and scared. They believe that Jake is a good kid but their techniques for reprimanding Jake haven't worked.
Jake and his family meet with the district attorney's office about options. Jake can go to district court with the possibility of having a juvenile record, or he can go into a diversion program at The Center for Family Outreach, a Larimer County non-profit organization.
At The Center, Jake takes weekly classes, performs supervised community service and submits to regular drug testing. Jake and his family are in partnership with skillful staff members who provide a positive but firm environment. The program has a high success rate (on average, 86% of participants complete all program requirements and have legal charges dropped from their records).
It costs nearly $900 for every child at The Center. Although all programs are offered on a sliding scale and each family pays at least part of the program fee, a gap remains. This is where you come in.
Few adolescents will come right out and ask you to "believe in me!" -- but their actions often cry out with this plea. Your contribution of $100 or more to the Believe in Me! program at The Center answers the call.