How You Can Help: Giving Time

Become a volunteer. The Wedgwood Mentoring Program gives community volunteers an opportunity to serve as a friend and positive role model for the youth in our care. Mentors are asked to build a supportive one-on-one relationship with an adolescent (ages 12-17) by spending one to two hours per week with the individual for a six- to nine-month time period. Wedgwood also has an ongoing need for a variety of other volunteer positions including Tutoring, Maintenance Assistance, Clerical Assistance, Transporting, and many more.

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For more information, please email Molly Guillaume.

Become a foster parent. We also need adults who can provide a positive family environment via our Foster Care Program. Foster parents receive the support they need through weekly contact with a Wedgwood case manager. In addition, each licensed home can also receive reimbursement, training and respite care.

For more information, please contact Dawn Harvey at (616) 831-5674 or email.

Become a home provider. We also need adults willing to open their home and provide room and board for youth in our Supervised Community Living program. The relationship between a home provider and a youth is structured like landlord/tenant relationship – but it often grows to be much more significant. Stays typically last from three months to one year. Wedgwood maintains weekly contact and provides orientation, training and financial support for home providers. Formal licensing in not required, but careful screening is part of the process.

For more information, please contact Dawn Harvey at (616) 831-5674 or email.