Volunteer Opportunities

Hello Pre-Dental Society members!

Here are some volunteer opportunities that are quickly approaching.

- Goodwill “GoodGuides” Mentoring Program
GoodGuides engages adult volunteers who can commit to supporting, guiding and being a friend to a young person for a period of at least one year. GoodGuides mentors are good listeners, encouraging, supportive, flexible, patient, tolerant & respectful of individual
differences.

What can you expect if you're interested?
* Pre-service & ongoing training to prepare you to meet the program goals.
* Assistance in matching you with a youth who shares your interests.
* Ongoing support from the Program Manager and Master Mentor.
* Assistance in troubleshooting problems as they arise.
* A safe place to meet your mentee with staff available to help.
* Help in developing projects and activities to do with your mentee
* Staff support in completing all reports for the program.

Training will be offered to all those who are interested on Tuesday, Feb. 16th from 11 am - 1 pm and 6 pm - 8 pm in the VSLC (NUC 212). UCO is the first university GoodGuides is approaching, so please give some consideration to being a mentor to a deserving kid. If you're interested in signing up for the program & for training, or for more information, please contact Liz Tate, GoodGuides Master Mentor @ 405-278-7140 or ltate@okgoodwill.org


- Big Event Volunteers Needed
The Big Event is on Saturday, March 6th & volunteer sign ups have begun! If you aren't familiar with this event, it's UCO's largest one-day of community service. You pick where you do your service from our list of participating agencies. We meet at Plunkett Park at 8 and
you are finished for the day by 1 pm. It's our most popular volunteer event of the year! Your volunteer hours will automatically be logged for you by the VSLC for this event.

The sign-up table is open on the following dates & locations from 10 am-2 pm:
Feb 4 - Comm. building
Feb 8 - Nigh Univ. Center
Feb 9 - Edu building
Feb 10 - Howell Hall
Feb 11 - Comm. building
Feb 15 - Nigh Univ. Center

Sign up anytime in the VSLC (NUC 212).
If you have any questions, please contact Lyndsay Holder @
LHolder3@uco.edu or 405-974-2621.

- On-Campus Volunteer Opportunity
On Feb. 13th from 4-9:30 P.M., the Office of Commuter Student Services is seeking volunteers for our 3rd Annual Parent's Night Out. Students will assist with preparing Legend's for a romantic candle lit dinner for student parents, setting up Pegasus Theatre for a movie and chaperoning children at Unpluggits Play Studio here in Edmond. All volunteer hours will be reported to the Volunteer and Service Learning Center. For more information or to get a volunteer application, please contact the Office of Commuter Student Services at (405) 974-3655, nbox@uco.edu or swing by NUC 115.

- Yoga for Kids/Mandala Arts program Volunteer
The INTEGRIS Health James L. Hall, Jr. Center for Mind, Body and Spirit is looking for a volunteer for the Yoga for Kids/Mandala Arts program. The Yoga for Kids/Mandala Arts program is for children 8 to 12 years old and teaches children to pay attention to the stress in their bodies and learn to clam themselves when they are angry or frustrated, before a test at school or even help them go to sleep at night. Creating Sand Mandalas teach kids self expression through the calming experience of creating art with sand, allowing children to be present and in the moment. These classes will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. on Wednesdays, January 27 through March 17 and another session from March 24 through May 12, at 4900 N. Portland, Suite 102. Class size is limited to 10 children per session. The volunteer would help with room set up, clean up, keeping the children on task, taking pictures, playing games, etc.

As a volunteer you don't need to know anything about yoga but you do need to love children and come with an open heart. Please contact Kerry Ann Richards for more information at: (405) 943-3921

- MDA Summer Camp Volunteer Opportunities
Every Year MDA holds a summer camp for children with Muscular Dystrophy in Guthrie, Ok. The camp will be held June 20th - 25th and volunteers are needed who are 18 years of age and older who are willing and able to provide support for these children. Many of the volunteers find this to be not only enjoyable, but also life changing. Contact Molly McCloud for more information at mmccloud@mdausa.org or by telephone 405-722-8005.

- Tom & Lisa Price Service Learning Scholarship
For all UCO students: please find attached to this email the application form for the Tom & Lisa Price Service Learning Scholarship. Two awards will be made of $2,500 each to recognize a student-proposed service project to be implemented in the 2010-11 academic year.
Applicants must have a 3.0 GPA, and be a returning, full-time student with 30 or more credit hours completed. The deadline is February 15th, and completed applications should be submitted to the UCO Foundation in Evans Hall room 102.

Please contact Josh Krawczyk with any questions.
Director
UCO Volunteer & Service Learning Center
JKrawczyk@uco.edu

**The application for this scholarship can be found here**