SearchWeekly Update
Updates for December 1st - 7th
Justice Opportunities:
Peace and Justice Co-op
Mondays 9:15pm-10:15pm, CCSJ, Harper Center Rm. 2067
Interested in issues concerning social justice? Want to get more involved on Campus? Come join us on Monday nights to learn more about issues of injustice in a globalized world. Educate yourself so you can become an educator for others! For more information you can contact the club president Kendal Agee at kendalagee@creighton.edu
Consider joining a L.I.F.E. Community
What is L.I.F.E.? L.I.F.E. groups meet regularly for prayer, reflection, and sharing about faith and life. They become a tool for discerning our call in everyday life as well as forming deep and supportive relationships with others. L.I.F.E., while reflective of our Ignatian identities, are open to members of all faith traditions. For more information or if you are unable to come contact Marie Hilton in the Campus Ministry office, Lower Swanson; mhilton@creighton.edu or Lydia Reinig, CM Partner; lydiareinig@creighton.edu
Safe Haven Community Center “I Can Make A Difference”
Aluminum Can Drive Fundraiser
Sept. 26 – January 3, 2009
Safe Haven is asking families and businesses to assist in our efforts to support our programs we offer to families in the Greater Omaha community! HOW? By saving all aluminum cans and donating them to Safe Haven’s “I CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE ALUMINUM CAN DRIVE”. Cans can be dropped off at Safe Haven, 2895 Binney St. M – F 9am – 2pm. You may leave trash bags by the garage entrance or call Safe Haven at 932-6103 for pick up.
• Cans Must be Aluminum Cans
• Cans Must be in a secured trash bag or bin
• Any type of empty Aluminum Can is acceptable
By participating, you will be helping to support our ESL & Job Readiness Class, GED Study &Tutoring, Housing Search, Job Search, and our Resource & Referral service.
V O L U N T E E R O P P O R T U N I T I E S
The Arc of Omaha at the Ollie Webb Center
The Arc of Omaha at the Ollie Webb Center is a non-profit agency dedicated to enriching
the lives of individuals with developmental disabilities and their families through support, programs, and advocacy. They are in need of volunteers for their many activities. To learn more go to: http://www.olliewebbinc.org/calendar/index.php
Please contact Dena Launderville at 402.346.5220 ext. 15 or
dlaunderville@olliewebbinc.org to volunteer.
Volunteer Needed for A Woman’s Touch Pregnancy Counseling Center
Monday Evenings, 5:15 – 7:30 (class runs from 5:45 to 7:00)
Are you fluent in Spanish and interested in volunteering in a community that would allow you to continue to work with this skill? The Woman’s Touch Pregnancy Counseling Center in Bellevue is looking for a volunteer to fill the position of EWYL Spanish Instructor - Co-Lead the Spanish EWYL parenting class. This position would include: setting up chairs for class distributing video worksheets and brochures starting videos go over video worksheets with answer key provided encourage class discussion adding up points for clients to shop in Boutique. For more information contact: Tonya Mapes (Program Director) at 933-2988. Volunteer must be able to speak fluent Spanish. The 1st class begins on November 17th
Be a Mentor at Castelar's Community Learning Center
3:45-5:45pm, M-F
Looking for volunteers to assist us with our after-school programming. Any day is possible :) and the program goes until May 2009. No consistent time schedule is required. Just whenever you're available. The main thing is that we're looking for individuals to help us with elementary students that are primary Latino. Great fun and experience to work with kids! For more information contact Itzel Anahi Lopez at 402.686.7433 or visit the website at www.SouthOmahaArts.com
Head Huggers
Do you knit? Crochet? Sew? Would you like to use this skill to help someone who has undergone hair loss due to chemotherapy, brain surgery, burn wounds, etc.? http://www.headhuggers.org/
Back on Track to Learn and Grow
Monday and Wednesdays 3:30 to 5:00
Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:00 to 5:30.
Tutors needed in all subject areas for struggling high school students in North Omaha. If you enjoy working with struggling/ at risk teens then this is a service opportunity for you! For more information contact Nathan Megel at 320-224-1229 or via e-mail at nathanmegel@creighton.edu.
Justice for Our Neighbors
Justice For Our Neighbors, a non-profit immigration law office in South Omaha, needs volunteers to help with filing and other general office work. Contact the office manager Christy Nicolaisen at 898-1349 to get more information.
Metro Community College Adult Education/GED Students need your help!
Volunteers needed to help students improve basic literacy and math skills 1-3 hours/wk. Training is provided. Locations are within 10 minutes of Creighton and just off the interstate. If interested, contact Tara at 457-2315 or email twalnlewellyn@mccneb.edu.
Mosaic Community Development
Mosaic Community Development is looking for students who love music and relationships to volunteer with our organization! To help fund our programs and advocate for our ministries, MCD hosts local concerts. We need volunteers to manage the front door, provide security, run sound equipment, recruit bands and design posters. Also, each Monday night, MCD hosts a meal (called Life on the Brick), to build relationships with the impoverished in Omaha. We are also looking for volunteers to help us set up, to serve and eat with us, and to help clean up. For more information contact Jodi Cooper at Jodi Cooper jodi@mosaiccd.org, 402-933-6672
Helping a young, mentally impaired adult
I am working with a really delightful young woman who is 22 and out of school. She is mildly developmentally delayed. She would like to work at improving her reading skills and would really like to work with someone one to one. She lives near 52nd and Pratt and does not have transportation, so would need to meet the volunteer somewhere within walking distance from her house. I understand that there is a library near her and that might be a possibility. If you would like to enrich the life of this young lady, please call me at 595-1249.
Big Brothers Big Sisters needed at Kellom Elementary
Volunteers meet with children after school for an hour each week at the school. They may meet in the cafeteria or gym, a classroom or computer lab, and will engage in a variety of activities: recreation, educational games, or simply visit together about “what’s happening.” Volunteers are asked to commit to at least a one year relationship with their mentees.
Contact: Sheryl Lindau, Partnership Development Director
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Midlands
10831 Old Mill Road, Suite 400, Omaha, NE 68154 (402) 330-2449 Ext 119
Youth Empowerment Program (YEP!)
YEP! Is a dynamic after-school program that meets the mental, emotional, spiritual and physical needs of children living in Omaha’s inner-city. If you’d like to tutor, serve a meal, share a gift/skill with a class of 10 students (i.e. art, pottery, scrap booking, woodwork, computer technology, etc.), or just hang out. Contact Miriam Blair (402) 679-6060.
Pearl Tri-Community Methodist Church After school Program
M-F between the hours of 4 & 7pm,
Tutors/Mentors are needed to work with at-risk and vulnerable children in North Omaha. Contact Pastor Ralph Gaines or Mrs. Thelma Sims at 453-7440.
Social Settlement Looking for Tutors
Monday-Friday 3:45-5:00 p.m.
Social Settlement is looking for tutors for its after-school club; Tutors will primarily be working with 2nd through 6th graders in math and reading. Contact Molly Watson of Social Settlement at 731-6988 ext. 212 or mwatson@socialsettlement.org to get involved.