Volunteering with Citizens For Safe Schools
By becoming a CFSS Volunteer, you join an agency and its community partners dedicated to being supportive adults for 'At-Promise' youth. You can also share your talents, skills, and connections to the community by serving on the Board of Directors. Submit an application to become a Mentor or join our Board today!
Research is overwhelmingly clear; when youth have at least one responsible adult in their life, they are significantly more likely to improve their connection to school, become advocates, and develop critical thinking and decision making skills. Mentors are positive role models for youth. They do not replace parents or guardians; mentors guarantee youth have someone that cares about them, listens objectively, and encourages them to pursue their goals. Klamath County has an overwhelming number of youth impacted by adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Mentors exemplify good character and inspire their mentee to do the same.
Mentoring with Citizens For Safe Schools
Our organization follows evidence-based standards for recruiting, screening, and training mentors in order to provide quality programming. All mentors undergo a complete state and national criminal background check, personal and/or employment reference checks, and must maintain a current driver’s license and auto insurance. A new Mentor orientation and basic training are provided and required. Kids in the Middle Mentors must be 18 or older, with preference for having a driver's license. Matches are expected to spend 1 hour a week together for at least 1 year. We are here to support you as much as possible through your mentoring journey!
Other Volunteer Opportunities
We recognize that becoming a mentor in the KIM program poses a significant time commitment that not everyone can accommodate, but we have plenty of other opportunities for volunteering that require much smaller time commitments!
- Center-Based Volunteering: We will always appreciate extra helping hands in our Youth Center, the CIC! You can help with tutoring, facility support tasks, hobby workshops, career exploration, spending time engaging with youth, and just by being an extra set of eyes! Whether you want to just come in every now and again or want to come in on a regular basis, we would love to work with you to set up some time and get you some volunteer hours!
- Fundraising/Event Volunteering: If you would ever just like to help us out with some fundraising tasks or a specific event, we would absolutely love to have you! Event planning, prep, set-up/tear-down, donation asks, donor relations, event staffing, resource gathering- all of these are things we could use your help with as a volunteer!
