Do you enjoy working with positive people?
Are you ready to make a difference in Whittier, serving our unhoused neighbors?
Together, we'll provide a warm meal, resources, and entertainment for our unhoused neighbors by partnering with local service vendors. Your presence and volunteering will help create a welcoming, supportive, and safer environment for our community.
Why this project matters: Our unhoused neighbors will get some urgent needs met, which everyone deserves. Operation Healthy Hearts, our area partner, is excited to serve at this new location. The friendly folks at the Whittier LGBTQ drop in center offer weekday access to support, case management, a hang-out space, free clothing, and a shower. But there are more needs in this area, so we are partnering to bring nutritious warm meals or snack bags, immediate health care, county resources, jobs training, identification, and housing navigation. We need volunteers to help us set up, run games and activities, serve a meal, and act as event navigators for guests at this location. When we work with fellow volunteers to meet the urgent needs of people living outside, our entire community benefits.
Service hours: 10 am-1 pm
Wear: Please wear clothes you don't mind getting dirty. If you've volunteered with us before, wear your Better Angels T-shirt to show your support!
Tools: We will provide any necessary supplies.
Age: All ages are welcome. Teams with members younger than 14 will participate with their parent/ guardian.
What We Will Do
- Join the Better Angel group at the resource center. Look for our light blue T-shirts and our light blue sign
- Sign in and receive a Better Angels T-shirt, if needed.
- We'll meet up and chat about our plan for each shift's duties.
- Get the tools and instructions you'll need.
- After: Share your experience with the onsite volunteer coordinator and find other ways you'd like to serve. We will also send a brief survey to you after the event.
List of available volunteer roles:
- Booth tables/ chairs set up
- Site/Event Navigator ( Help direct guests to the right resources based on what they tell you they need)
- Charging station set up
- Decor set up
- Breakfast/ Snack Set up
- Servers (Food and Drinks)
- Guest greeter/Counter ( Greet, direct, and count how many guests are entering the site)
- Guest Belonging Attendant ( Making sure guests know where they can leave their items attended and the volunteer will make sure items are not stolen)
- Hygiene DistributorDocumentarian ( Photographer of the event while keeping guest dignity as top priority - cover volunteers and the work they are doing)
- Activity/Game Coordinator
- Take down tables/chairs and decor, and pack up our van.
