General Volunteer Opportunities
Also see our URGENT VOLUNTEER NEEDS
If you are interested in volunteering with Yonge Street Mission, please see below for our most current volunteer opportunities. Determine where you see yourself fitting in, where you can be of service and what works with your timing, skills and interests and then contact the person on the posting. If you don’t see something that interests you at this time you could either check back next week or head to our “Contact Us About Volunteering” page HERE. Don’t forget to check out our Urgent Volunteer Needs too or if you are representing a group you are welcome to go to our Volunteer Groups page.
CURRENT INDIVIDUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Foot Care Clinic Assistant No experience necessary – training will be provided. Evergreen seeks to provide essential services to street-involved youth, while promoting a sense of dignity and community. The primary purpose of this position is to provide help to our nurses in our youth foot care clinic by assisting where needed, cleaning and sterilizing foot baths, starting youth on their foot bath treatments, welcoming youth to the clinic and engaging youth in meaningful conversations. We will need your commitment: each Tuesday afternoon 1:00pm-4:30pm. Qualities we seek in volunteers for this role: reliability, caring, respectfulness, exceptional interpersonal skills, responsibility. Role requires standing, lifting basins of water, bending and stretching. To apply for this opportunity contact Ruth Pentinga at: rpentinga@ysm.ca or call 416-929-9614 ext. 4236
Sorting Volunteer We seek an adult volunteer who loves to work with a team, can follow directions and can bend, reach, lift and carry large bags of clothes, household items and furniture. We seek a trustworthy, energetic, reliable volunteer for Mondays or Tuesdays or Thursdays or Fridays during the day for at least 3 hours between 10:00am and 4:00pm. Help us to sort donations to get them out on the floor for sale in our Double Take store at Parliament and Gerrard. This is a great way to get involved! To find out more and apply for this position please contact Kelly DeVries at: kdevries@ysm.ca or call 416-929-9614 ext. 4278
Volunteer Security Guards
Security guards are to be a presence in the store, walk around the store and make their existence known as they watch people to ensure the safety and security of the store and its contents inside and outside. Security guard training and/or theft prevention training an asset. Volunteers must have high energy, enthusiasm and be trustworthy, confident and take the role seriously. We are looking for volunteers who can commit weekly for the shifts of Monday afternoons between 12-7pm or Sundays from 12-5pm. We rely upon our volunteer security guards to commit to this role each week. To find out more and get the full position description and/or to apply for this opportunity contact Kelly DeVries at: kdevries@ysm.ca or call 416-929-9614 ext. 4236
Skilled Instrumentalists We are seeking 6 skilled instrumentalists to play on the Church at the Mission worship team on Sundays. In particular we need: Conga player (+ percussion if possible) player; or Strings (violin, viola, cello, double bass), or Reeds (sax, oboe, clarinet) or Horns (trumpet, Flugel horn, French horn, trombone). Critical to this request is that players be experienced, highly proficient on instruments, and be able to improvise their parts when supplied with basic chord charts and MP3 archives of worship songs. Rehearsals are Sundays at 1:30pm. All music must be learned by each instrumentalist before each Sunday, as the rehearsal is simply working out the arrangement and a partial song run-through. It is a high-pressure situation that requires a high-level of musicianship and flexibility. Auditions will be required. This would be an ongoing, occasional opportunity. Minimum commitment would be once a month, Sundays from 1:30pm-5:00pm. To learn more and apply for this position please contact Kelly DeVries at: kdevries@ysm.ca or call 416-929-9614 ext 4278
Book Fair Volunteers The Yonge Street Mission Book Fair is an opportunity to offer free used and new books to our community members. The Book Fair provides community members with the chance to own their own books. In 2011 we served over 1500 community members! This year we require up to 14 volunteers a day to help serve community members during the book fair. Volunteers need to be able to read English and must be 14+ years of age. We are seeking individuals or small groups. Dates are from June 13th-June 16th. For specific dates or information please contact Kelly DeVries at: kdevries@ysm.ca or call 416-929-9614 ex 4278
Pinch Volunteers We have last-minute volunteer opportunities that come up on occasion and we wonder if you would be willing to be a pinch or “on-call” volunteer for YSM. We may call you only a day or two ahead to ask if you can lend a hand to a project or initiative. Please let us know if this would interest you. Flexible timing is a must. Rarely opportunities come up on weekends so we mostly seek folks who would be available Monday to Friday during the day 9am-5pm or weekday evenings. To apply for this opportunity contact Michael Frank, Volunteer Administration Assistant, at 416-929-9614 ext. 4224 or mfrank@ysm.ca
Attention Health Care Professionals!
If you are seeking a rewarding volunteer experience and an opportunity to use your skills in the community, consider joining Evergreen Health Centre’s team of committed health care volunteers working with street-involved youth aged 16-24 years. Health care professionals licensed and registered in good standing with their Ontario regulatory body and available to commit to at least one afternoon each month are needed. Volunteers must also be able to walk up/down stairs.
We have specific requirements for:
- Foot Care Nurses (Tuesdays – from 1pm to 4:30pm) – full training will be provided if not experienced
- Chiropractor (2nd Thursday of the month – from 1pm-4:30pm)
- Optometrist (one or more Monday or Wednesday afternoons from 1pm-4pm)
If you are keen to dedicate one afternoon a month, bi-weekly or weekly we would love to hear from you! To find out more and get the full position description and/or to apply for this opportunity contact Ruth Pentinga at: rpentinga@ysm.ca or call 416-929-9614 ext. 4236