www.bushwickimpact.org - Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteer Opportunities

Summer 2010 Graduate Internship

Job Description

The Summer 2010 Intern will work in the Bushwick community, on (1) supporting the director and the advocacy and leadership coordinator with community-based advocacy and city-level policy work, (2) supporting Parent Advocates and the Activities Coordinator to plan, advertise, implement, track, and evaluate IMPACT’s Child Development and Family Literacy activities, (3) S/he will also work in partnership with IMPACT Parent Advocates to develop and implement special projects

Summer 2010 Social work and Community Intern

Job Description

The Summer 2010 Intern will work in the Bushwick community, on (1) supporting the director with community-based advocacy and city-level policy work, (2) supporting Parent Advocates to plan, advertise, implement, track, and evaluate IMPACT’s Child Development and Family Literacy activities, (3) S/he will also work in partnership with IMPACT Parent Advocates to develop and implement special projects

Summer 2010 Youth Internship, IMPACT Assistant

Project Description

Bushwick IMPACT (Informing More Parents Across the Community Together) is a dynamic family resource center in Brooklyn. Our welcoming storefront helps parents and caretakers of children under eight to access resources and opportunities related to education, child development, special needs, parenting, family literacy, leadership and whole family development. IMPACT strives to empower parents to maximize their children’s potential by strengthening families, enriching community life and influencing the systems that affect them. We build parent leadership, promote family literacy, and provide family support, and child development supports. The organization is staffed primarily by Parent Advocates, trained community residents who offer quality outreach, referrals and parent-to-parent peer support. IMPACT is a project of Agenda for Children Tomorrow (ACT), a 20 year-old public/private initiative that works to build neighborhood coalitions that improve access and quality of service delivery systems for families.