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Healthy Child Screening Volunteer
About Access Alliance:
Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services is a multi-service community agency that works to improve health outcomes for the most vulnerable immigrants, refugees, and their communities. We do this by facilitating access to services and addressing systemic barriers and poverty. The Centre envisions a future in which Toronto’s diverse communities achieve health with dignity.
Volunteer Position Description:
We are looking for volunteers to provide support at our annual Healthy Child Screening (HCS) events. These events aim to enhance healthy early childhood development as children prepare to enter the school system. At each HCS event, children and their parents (or guardians) visit a series of health screening ‘stations’ and meet with trained professionals.
Focus area: Children and Families
Tasks:
- Assist in the flow of the screening day
- Ensuring movement at each station, preventing backlog
- Support parents with questions and make sure they know where to go
- Will be assigned to assist at individual stations where needed.
Location: Multiple locations
- George Webster Elementary School (50 Chapman Ave., East York) Main Station
- Wednesday, May 17, – 8:30 am – 5pm ~ 50 children [10 positions]
- Secord Elementary School (101 Barrington Ave, East York) walk from Main Station
- Wednesday April 26 – 8:30am – 5pm ~ 50 children [10 positions]
- Crescent Town Elementary School (4 Massey Sq, East York) Victoria Park Station
- Wednesday April 12 – 8:30 am -5 pm ~ 65 children [10 positions]
- AccessPoint on Danforth (3079 Danforth Ave.) Victoria Park Station
- Wednesday May 10 – 8:30 am – 5pm, 50 children [10 positions]
Time Commitment: You can volunteer for one or all four days (April 12, 26, and May 10, 17).
Volunteer shift is from 8:30am – 5:00p
Role Type: Program/Project support
Format: In person
***PLEASE NOTE: Due to public health guidelines and organizational precautions around COVID-19, Access Alliance requires all staff, volunteers and students to be fully vaccinated. While onsite at Access Alliance, you are required to wear a mask and follow COVID-19 protocol***
Skills Required:
- Confidence in public speaking and plain language skills
- Organizational Skills
- Critical Thinking
- Comfortable interacting with crowds
Benefits to the Volunteer:
- Network with other health care professionals
- Receive a letter from Access Alliance to state involvement and contribution
- Strengthen professional skills: screening, public speaking, basic health education, interdisciplinary health promotion
- See a wide range of health practitioners in practice!
Number of positions available: 15
Apply by: until position filled
Start date: April 12, 2023
Save the date: In preparation for the event, Volunteers will be asked to attend a meeting on March 31, 2023 to go over flow of the event and tasks.
To apply:
Complete an application form by clicking here.
Please select ‘Healthy Child Screening Volunteer’ as the “Position Title” in the Application Form
For more information about this program contact, Keisha Cooke, Family Resource Coordinator, kcooke@accessalliance.ca
We welcome and encourage immigrants and refugees to volunteer with us! We encourage applications from volunteers who reflect the broad diversity of communities we work with, including those from racialized and LGBTQ2+ communities.