Welcome to Children's Bureau Volunteer Resources!

Thank you for your interest in volunteer opportunities within the agency. Our program organizes activities into four classifications:

1. Direct Contact
2. Indirect Contact
3. Special Event
4. Service Group

Direct Contact volunteers work hand-in-hand with our staff providing services to our clients. As an example, volunteers may be organizing a Saturday activity for the children in the Children's Shelter, helping with the babies and toddlers in the day care, or working on life skills with our group home youth.

Indirect Contact volunteers provide the much needed behind the scenes support for our programs. Positions might include: research for advocacy, assembling training materials for foster parent certification classes, mass mailing production, or general clerical.

Volunteers for our Special Events love to party! In an effort to raise funds for our programs, Children's Bureau hosts several large special events: The Tom Zupancic Golf "Fore" Kids, The Children's Bureau Celebrity Cookoff (formerly the Dave Thomas Celebrity Cookoff), and a sports trivia challenge named Spirit of Sport. There are also several smaller events throughout the year where volunteers are called upon to lend a hand: appreciation picnics, recognition events, and advocacy training, to name a few.

Service Groups also enjoy supporting the agency through a variety of one-time service projects. Groups are from churches, schools, philanthropic organizations, scouts, or community outreach programs. We work with these groups to develop a project that fits their objectives and the needs of an agency program. A project might be a supply drive, a spring spruce-up in a facility (cleaning, moving mulch, trash pick-up), creating birthday cards, or organizing a party for a group home. These projects are an opportunity to let your group's imagination and talents really shine!

Sound like your kind of community service? Great! We'd love to hear from you.

For the safety of our clients, staff and volunteers, we have a volunteer application/screening process. We encourage you to review the volunteer application requirements and process then come to a volunteer orientation. During the orientation we'll discuss our volunteer policies & procedures and the volunteer opportunities within the agency. The orientation is a way for you to learn more about the agency and how you can assist in fulfilling our mission - to help Indiana children in need. At the orientation you'll also receive a volunteer information packet with a volunteer application and other forms that are required to get started. A one-on-one volunteer interview is schedule after the orientation. This is when the completed forms are returned and we'll discuss your specific interests and desires to get involved. For more about this process visit the Getting Started link.

We hope that you find an opportunity listed that fits your time and talents. However, if you don't see what you're looking for, please contact us. We are always interested in exploring new and creative ways to involve our community friends and partners.

We look forward to hearing from you soon!