Volunteer
If you are interested in volunteering, we have many opportunities for you! To learn more about volunteering, please click here to drop a note to Cindy Yost, or call her at (800) 621-8834, extension 120.
Volunteer Opportunities for CHOSEN
Promotional help
Placing posters in targeted communities
Transportation Assistance
Transporting a client to an appointment
Record Keeper
Filing and keeping up of all CHOSEN records as needed (parent and children’s records)
Volunteer Opportunities Good Samaritan Network
Community Assistance
Research and vet community resources
Research viable community agencies that donate goods and services
ESL Tutors
Foreign language interpreters
Wraparound Facilitator
Will guide, motivate, recruit, schedule and organize a wraparound meeting as well as ensure completion of action steps on the treatment plans.
Adopt a Transitional House
Landscaping, supplying household needs, correct maintenance needs.
Good Samaritan Project Volunteer
A GSN Project Volunteer will help by making phone calls to churches and businesses to set up supply donations
Help to count, sort and pull supply orders for GSN Project events
Help deliver and pick up orders and donations
Help Line
Assist a caller during intake, find resources on the internet for specific.
Complete follow up calls
Volunteer Opportunities Safe Families
Promotional help
Calling churches and local organizations to provide information about Safe Families.
Office work
Includes: making packets of information, photocopying, creating files, data entry and making phone calls, and setting up possible appointments.
SUCCESSES!
Note: These stories are taken from our monthly "PrayerGram." If you would like to receive the Prayergram by email, please click here and leave us your address. All names have been changed to protect the identities of our kids and families.
Melissa approved two new families for our Safe Families for Children program. One family is from Faith Baptist Church in Glen Burnie and the other is from North Harford Baptist Church. We also welcomed two new CHOSEN families earlier this month --one from Howard County and the other from Baltimore County. We are happy that they are willing to open their homes to children in need.
There is great news to pass along about Ching Lan, for whom you have been praying over the past several months. She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in January and started a full time job with benefits this week. Ching Lan is now looking at a more stable future.
Darron took his GED test this week. After he receives the GED, he has a job lined up and ready to go.
Kudos to foster parent Tamara Harris for her willingness to stay up all night during a recent hospitalization with her CHOSEN child.
Prayer Requests
...for a foster child who is having difficulty with the transition back to his biological family and is acting out.
...for a foster teen who has not had contact with his biological family for years and is hesitant to respond after they reached out to him through social media.
...for a woman who lost her husband on Monday; she is feeling overwhelmed by the logistics of his burial as well as the grief of losing him.
...for a foster child who is struggling to stay on task at school.
...for a young man who is seeking a diagnosis for chronic abdominal pain.
...for a foster child who has been experiencing suicidal ideations.
...for a man who will undergo cataract surgery next week.
...for a young mother who is recovering from a severe infection in the brain and going through physical therapy.