Case Managers

Work with families/individuals in need; coordinate services for families; help them with issues that got them into trouble; make decisions about financial assistance; mentor; and give them some spiritual direction.

Intake Workers

Answers the helpline and helps direct individuals/families to either a case manager, and/or other service organizations within the county.

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

Keep an inventory and a description of the type of donations; schedule pick up of donations and schedule drop offs to families in need; interview families in need to assess their needs.

Public Relations Coordinator

Manage the timeliness of the quarterly newsletter; develop strategies to publicize the CHI (Christian Help, Inc.) image; send press releases and be involved in special news articles; work with the golf committee on publicizing the tournament; manage a team of helpers; and work 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

Work with John Dickey and the churches fixing up homes; help a family make connections with the church; help to decorate the homes and pick out furniture; and help 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

keep a file of stories about clients; a file of our history of events; a file of pictures; and take 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.
  • Volunteer 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.

    Thank you for all you do. We could not exist without your support and your prayers. You all are blessings from God.