Through our Great Futures and Great Jobs programs, the structured development of healthy supportive peer relationships and the introduction of life skills, study habits, and career development training, 6th, 7th and 8th grade girls create a future for themselves that they are unwilling to forfeit. Mentors needed for middle school age girls. If you are a woman over 18 who is willing to walk alongside a younger person by being a positive and encouraging role model and friend, you are ready to be a mentor. Volunteers will help middle school age girls collect and deliver food to foodbanks. Tutor children in reading and math, and help them with their homework.
Tutors also act as friends and role models to the students.
Six tutoring centers are located in public housing communities throughout Seattle, and are open during the week in the early evening. Students are in grades 1 - 12. Finding Volunteer Opportunities in Western Washington Western Washington and in particular the Puget Sound region can boast the highest rate of volunteering in the United States both in terms of number of individuals involved and total hours contributed. This statistic is matched by the amazing variety and number of volunteer opportunities, literally in the tens of thousands. In fact there are so many volunteer opportunities in Western Washington that we have elected to give you the tools to find information on them rather than attempting to list them one by one.