Community Engagement Opportunities

Navigating life’s final passage — whether it’s measured in years or months — is a profound experience for individuals and families. At Faith Presbyterian Hospice, we help this transition become less about loss, and more about comfort, enrichment and love.

General Service Needs
Patient Companions, Administrative Volunteers, Greeting visitors to new facility

Summary of what your organization does
We provide end of life care for patients and families in the DFW area.

General Service Needs
We have a lot of different volunteer opportunities in the DFW area. We are looking for patient companions and pet therapy volunteers for our patients who are in their own homes or assisted living facilities as well as at our in-patient unit in Dallas. We also have administrative and greeter positions at our in-patient unit.

What tasks are available for UT Arlington students to help with?
Providing companionship and respite to patients and families who are in their end-of-life journey.

Families to Freedom solves the transportation problem that is often a barrier to freedom from abuse. We are a solution for victims who need to arrive to safety after domestic violence, and for new survivors in shelter who need to reunite with family far away for long term support and security. Families to Freedom mission is to transport victims of domestic abuse to safety.

General Service Needs
Volunteer drivers to make local, regional, and multistate drives.

Tasks Available for UTA Students
Volunteer drivers

Family Outreach Coalition is a Multi-Use facility that is designed to provide the following:

1. Support for our Men and Women in Uniform by providing Care Packages.
2. Support for Disaster Victims by providing Money support and Care Packages.
3. Provide a place for our youths to learn skills designed to help them find employment.
4. Provide a place for College Students to study, relax, and meet others.
5. Provide Parents and Businesses a place where they can promote their business or events.
6. Provide a place where teens can gather in a safe environment to have fun.
7. Counseling programs designed to strengthen the family.
8. Classes for all ages on how to prepare their taxes, create a Business, Manage their finances, and much more.

Volunteers needed to teach classes, mentor students, and assist in the operation of the center.

General Service Needs
• Physical Restoration: Meals, food pantry, feeding the elderly, clothing assistance, healthcare, shelters, hygiene resources, drives, and giveaways.
• Financial Restoration: Job readiness, job placement, financial literacy, benefits acquisition, educational counseling, financial hardship assistance.
• Mental/Emotional Restoration: Therapy and counseling, life skills, support groups.


Tasks Available for UTA Students:
• Supervision, setup, breakdown, directing attendees, providing information.
• Registration, ticket sales, merchandise/food booths, serving food to the homeless.
• Security, first aid, backstage operations, photography, running errands, social media, facilitating activities.

For Love & Art believes that sharing one's experience while viewing great art enriches quality of life psychosocially, cognitively, spiritually and physically.

We partner with community outreach programs of museums around the world and bring their collections, digitally, into senior communities and other venues catering to the sick and/or infirm. Our volunteers showcase the masterpieces engage the residents to share their thoughts and feelings while viewing any of our partner museum collections.

For Love & Art is a 501(c)3 nonprofit enterprise that brings the Art Experience to those with limited mobility. We stimulate art appreciation while empowering caregivers to love people in creative and transformative ways.

General Service Needs
For Love & Art is looking for volunteers willing and able to lead hour-long presentations featuring the works from a particular museum once or twice a month. Training will include how best to appreciate artwork and how best to interact with people to fully realize what art has to offer - mind, body and soul - to people at the grassroots.
Also needed are volunteers willing to approach new senior facilities in the Metroplex and introducing them to our beautiful and creative program.
Other skills are welcomed, including video production, event planning and graphic design.

Tasks Available for UTA Students

• Join us as we celebrate art with seniors.
• Introduce new venues to our program.
• Raise awareness of the need for quality of life services among seniors in our community.

Please check with our volunteer wizard, Seth, for additional opportunities.

Our mission is to ignite a brighter future for urban youth by engaging them today and equipping them for tomorrow.

We feel called to bring hope to the lives of at-risk children by providing resources that will help them break the cycle of generational poverty. Our programs, preschool, after school, summer, mentoring & parent engagement, are designed to ignite spiritually, engage relationally, and equip academically.

General Service Needs
Fortress is always looking for mentors from the community to work one-on-one with our students. The mentor is a positive role model from the community (that has completed high school) that invests one hour a week over the course of at least one school year with their mentee. This can be any hour during our after school program hours (3:00 - 6:30 pm, Monday-Thursday). The mentor's responsibility is to:

• Build a relationship by planning and participating in activities with a mentee.
• Serve as a positive role model and friend.
• Demonstrate positive, appropriate behaviors and encourage those behaviors in a mentee.
• Provide encouragement and support to help a mentee achieve his/her goals.
• Build self-esteem and motivation.
• Are consistently available.
• Have fun together!

Anyone interested in becoming a mentor can fill out our volunteer application at: http://www.fortressydc.org/volunteerapp

Tasks Available for UTA Students
Fortress could also use UTA students to help as tutors in elementary and middle school subjects such as:

• English/Language Arts
• Math
• Science
• Social Studies
• Reading buddies

This opportunity is NOT a weekly commitment like the mentoring program and can be scheduled during times throughout the semester. Interested individuals can fill out our volunteer application at: http://www.fortressydc.org/volunteerapp

Foundation Communities provides affordable housing and the tools that low to moderate income families need to increase their educational and economic standing. Our mission is to create housing where families succeed.

Community Tax Centers is a Foundation Communities program that returns millions of dollars to the local economy by helping families take better control of their finances through free tax preparation and match saving programs.

We are looking for volunteers to help provided free tax and saving services for low- moderate income families through Dallas & Arlington from Jan- April

General Service Needs

• Greeters
• Spanish/English Translators
• Savings Coaches
• Tax Preparers

The Foundation for C.H.O.I.C.E. offers a 27-week mentoring program to prepare at-risk high school students for college and careers. Each student is paired with a mentor for weekly one-on-one sessions, using a curriculum available on our app. We also provide assistance with college applications and scholarships.