The Family Basic Needs focus area provides volunteer opportunities emphasizing basic needs, family cohesiveness and supporting those who have been neglected or abused.

BEAR . . . BE A Resource for CPS Kids

Volunteers staff Child Protective Services (CPS) emergency supply rooms at the various CPS locations located in Harris County. They also assist caseworkers in acquiring clothing, toys and other necessities for children who have been removed from their homes.

Casa de Esperanza de los Niños

Volunteers help break the destructive cycle of child abuse by serving as positive role models for children who have been abused, neglected or affected by HIV. Depending on the needs of the specific house, volunteers read to children, play games, assist with tutoring of special needs children, soothe and feed infants, and work on arts and crafts projects.

Dress for Success Houston

Volunteers assist job-ready women in their selection of interview attire and provide interview preparation counseling to help the women thrive in work and life. Volunteers also participate in an evening program, Dress for Success Houston’s Professional Women’s Group, providing guidance and support to the agency’s clients.

Houston Food Bank

Volunteers assist the Houston Food Bank by sorting food donations and preparing pallets for distribution to food pantries. Volunteers also help put together boxes of food for the elderly, disadvantaged and disaster victims.

IMPACT

This project enables the League to assist community agencies that do not have a need for League volunteers on an ongoing basis but may have a need to staff a one or two-day special event or have a one-time need for extra volunteers. Volunteers work in a variety of short-term assignments with many different community agencies. Agencies may request volunteers by submitting the online form.

Kids’ Meals

Volunteers meet at Kid’s Meals Garden Oaks on Monday and Wednesday nights to prepare 1,200 nutritious sack lunches each night for underserved children. Volunteers also participate in delivery sessions in the community.

Project C.U.R.E.

Volunteers will help sort, pack and prepare up to $1 – 2 million in medical supplies each month for doctors and nurses to treat disease, deliver vaccines, perform life-changing surgeries and ensure safe childbirth in developing countries.

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Houston

Volunteers assist with activities, provide fellowship and stress relief and serve dinner delivered from the Junior League Tea Room to families with seriously ill children at Holcombe House. Volunteers also provide respite and comfort to parents and guests of patients in satellite locations of Ronald McDonald House, located in Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital and Texas Children’s Hospital.

Star of Hope

Teams of volunteers work at the Women and Family Emergency Shelter mentoring, tutoring and assisting the children in various cooperative learning centers. The program focuses on social and personal growth, as well as academic development designed to meet the special needs of the shelter’s homeless, at-risk children. Volunteers also write notes of encouragement to the Star of Hope clients.

VIEW (Volunteers In Evening Workshop)

Volunteers meet on a weekly basis to design and construct various handcrafted items that are distributed to a number of agencies, schools and hospitals with which the League is involved.