Volunteer Opportunities
Thank you for your interest in volunteering at BETA Center! For other ways in which you can help support BETA Center, please see our wish list here.
In order to volunteer at BETA Center you must:
- Submit a completed volunteer application. Click here to complete this application online.
- Submit a volunteer reference questionaire found here.
- Attend a Breakfast at BETA which serves as your orientation to the BETA Center.
Breakfast at BETA
Breakfast at BETA is from 8:00 am - 9:00 am on the second Tuesday of every month except for July and August when there is no Breakfast at BETA. Breakfast at BETA is followed by a volunteer orientation from 9:00 am - 10:00 am. You must attend both sessions in order to volunteer at BETA. We look forward to hearing from you for the September BETA Breakfast. For more information or to attend, please send an email to volunteers@betacenter.org
Snack and Learn
In addition to Breakfast at BETA, a Snack and Learn session will be offered on the fourth Thursday of every month, except July and August, from 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm. For more information or to attend, please send an email to volunteers@betacenter.org
How You Can Help
We are always on the lookout for people who can share their time and talents to support our service to clients. BETA Center needs more than 600 volunteers to:
- Food Pantry Helpers - distribute food to clients.
- Pantry Stockers - pick up donations of food.
- Lobby Greeters - answer telephones, provide clients with general information and referrals to other community resources.
- Cuddlers - a little TLC for the infants and toddlers of teen moms during school hours.
- Grandparent Readers - read to children 0-5 attending PLAYShops.
We also need help with fund raising events to ensure their success and that they are fun for all participants. You could:
- Assist with promotion of events to attract participants
- Hold a fundraising event benefiting BETA Center
- Help us to secure donated prizes for all events
- Participate in an event
You can make a difference / Why should I donate?
If we don't help now by supporting families and creating a community environment that promotes healthy lifestyles, resiliency and self-sufficiency, we will later be burdened with the ugly mess and the costly treatments to put our broken children back together.
BETA Center relies upon our community donations to ensure continued funding for our vital programs that educate and support parents, strengthen youth, help stabilize families in crisis and meet the critical needs of pregnant and parenting teens. By investing in our children today, you are investing in the future of our community.
How we make a difference:
- Break the cycle for 180 teen mothers and their children.
- Give 450 parents the information and skills needed to prevent any further occurrence of child abuse and neglect.
- Educate 4,877 parents so their children will have what they need to succeed.
- Provide prevention services to 5,525 at-risk youth and parents.
How you can make a difference:
- $35 - will feed a family for 5 days.
- $50 - helps teen moms build a nurturing attachment to their infants through parent/child labs.
- $100 - provides 9 therapy sessions for pregnant & parenting teens.
- $200 - helps buy a crib for our child care center
- $250 - provides 10 days of shelter for homeless pregnant women.
- $500 -- helps at-risk youth attend an 8-week youth development program
- $1000 -- sends 10 parents to a parenting skills-building course so they will no longer neglect or abuse their children.
Volunteer Projects
BETA Center is currently in need of qualified individuals or groups to complete the following projects:
Marketing/Advertising
- Brochure: Individuals needed to create informational brochure for BETA to distribute. This project must be completed with Microsoft Publisher.
- Display board: Individuals needed to create an informational display board for BETA to use at general events.
Facilities Improvement
- Chain-link fence repair: BETA is in need of individuals with knowledge and experience in this field to repair chain-link fencing around the facility.
- Concrete ramp creation: Knowledgeable and experienced individuals needed for the creation of a concrete ramp for entry into our nursery.
- Landscaping: Individuals with equipment are needed to perform mowing, trimming, tree trimming, and hedge trimming around the facility.
- Floor and carpet cleaning: Individuals with experience and equipment are needed to strip and wax floors inside the facility as well as to shampoo carpets.
- Painting facility: Individuals or groups who can donate paint and have equipment are needed to paint the interiors of the facility.
Annual Giving
"Never decide to do nothing just because you can only do a little. Do what you can."
Annual gifts are critical to the success of our programs, and the numbers of families BETA enter can serve.
- Cash Gift: Regular donations give us the financial security we need to plan ahead, ensuring that our vital projects can help children now and in the future.
- Corporate matching gifts: Your employer may have a matching gift program whereby your company will match whatever gift you make to Beta Center.
- Memorials: Long after the funeral flowers have faded away, donations in memory of a loved one can live on. A donation to BETA Center in lieu of flowers can help transform young lives and help thousands of families succeed.
- Honorariums: What better way to honor a friend, co-worker, boss or a family member then by contributing in their name to help reverse the cycle of family dysfunction - one baby, one youth, one teen mom, one family at a time.