Case Managers
Duties would include: working with families/individuals in need; coordinating services for families; helping them with issues that got them into trouble; making decisions about financial assistance; mentoring; and giving them some spiritual direction.
Bookkeeper
Our volunteer that has been doing our books and accounting will be retiring in June; he has done an excellent job putting our finances in order and he has been a great help on the golf committee. We need a bookkeeper to replace him.
Intake Workers
Duties would include: calling the helpline and gathering the intake information; directing them to other services in the county; and make appointments for case managers.
Volunteer Case Managers for Affordable Housing Program
Work with the families that are in our program. This would be a long-term relationship. Coordinate treatment with Angie, the life skills instructor and parenting guide, and Pam, the director and program planning coordinator.
Furniture Coordinator
Duties would include: keeping an inventory and a description of the type of donations; scheduling pick up of donations and scheduling drop offs to families in need; interviewing families in need to assess their needs.
Public Relations Coordinator
Duties would include: managing the timeliness of the quarterly newsletter; developing strategies to publicize the CHI (Christian Help, Inc.) image; sending press releases and being involved in special news articles; working with the golf committee on publicizing the tournament; managing a team of helpers; and working with the website master.
Fundraising Committee
Be a part of the committee that is in charge of fundraising; helping to develop fundraising strategies and ideas; and working on specific projects.
Assistant to Program Coordinator
Duties would include: working with John Dickey and the churches fixing up homes; helping a family make connections with the church; helping to decorate the homes and pick out furniture; and helping to make the home a warm home.
Child Care Volunteers
We often need someone to watch the children of our program participants while they are in life skills' class or going to classes for the entrepreneur program. This need will grow as we are going to be having more and more classes in all areas of the county.
Historian
Duties would include: keeping a file of stories about clients; keeping a file of our history of events; keeping a file of pictures; and taking minutes at meetings.
Other Volunteer Positions
- Provider of snacks for meetings with program participants.
- Mobile home workers helping to clean mobile homes; helping to paint or any other skill needed to fix up the homes.
- Data input people — Putting data and case notes into our database.
- General office duties — managing the office at particular times of the week during regular business hours.
- People with trucks who are willing to pick up or deliver furniture.
- Help with mailings — stuffing and stamping.
- Help with painting our office — We need some volunteers to help paint the windows of the Franklin office, some woodwork, the small bathroom and clean paint off of woodwork.
- Volunter as a carpet layer
- Grant Researcher — Search for grant oppotunities; research funding requirements and foundation to see if applicable to CHI.
Materials Needed
Donations of building materials, carpet, light fixtures, sinks and toilets etc.
Donations of office supplies, computer paper, notebooks, files, pens, etc.
Donations of gift cards, gas cards, meal cards etc. for individuals taking the life skills classes.
Food items — we keep a small amount of food for emergencies. We can take bread and milk as we have a freezer.
We have a need for someone to donate their time putting in a sidewalk at our office. It can be made out of wood or cement. This would be a nice project for boy scouts.
We will be doing planting and landscaping.