Opportunities From: Volunteers United

Wisconsin is now accepting handmade Personal Protective Equipment masks (with the approved pattern only, available here): https://chw.org/-/media/files/for-patients-and-families/covid-19/mask-guidelines.pdf?la=en).  

During this time of shortages in the face of important need, Children's Wisconsin is inviting crafters, people who sew, and people who want to help make a difference to sew masks at home.    

Once you make the mask per the very specific directions above, deliver them Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.-noon and 1-3 p.m. at the Children’s Corporate Center lobby at 999 North 92nd St., Milwaukee and the hospital will insert filters after masks are provided.

Important items to note:

Do not make masks for donation if there is anyone in your home who: Smokes Has tested positive for COVID-19 Has any symptoms of any respiratory illness  Please prewash fabric, wash your hands and work in a clean environment. Work with the supplies you have at home.   If you do not have elastic options, you can drop off the masks without elastic and the hospital will add elastic and the filters for the pocket.  The hospital is in need of large, thin, metal-free elastic hair ties that are 6” long (pony tail rubber bands with covering).   Please do not try the masks on.

 Thank you for your efforts and you willingness to support our community through volunteering your time and talents!

NO NEED TO RESPOND to this posting.  You need not "sign-up" for this activity. 

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The Volunteer Respite Care Program is a part of Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin- Community Services.  The program offers respite care to children with special needs and their siblings, ages 0-21, in a supervised, safe, and supportive day camp-like setting.  Events are held an average of 8 times a year in collaboration with community partners. 

The Volunteer Respite Care Program is in need of donations of new board games to be utilized at respite events.  Choose and share a game you enjoyed playing with growing up or a list of ideas can be provided to you when responding to this post.  Please contact Sondra Russell at srussell@chw.org to arrange pick up/drop off of any donated items.

Thank you!

The Volunteer Respite Care Program is a part of Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin- Community Services.  The program offers respite care to children with special needs and their siblings, ages 0-21, in a supervised, safe, and supportive day camp-like setting.  Events are held an average of 8 times a year in collaboration with community partners. 

The Volunteer Respite Care Program is in need of donations of new board craft supplies to be used at respite events.  General supplies we regularly use/need include such things as construction paper, washable markers, fabric markers and canvas items to decorate, dry erase markers, Model Magic Modeling Clay, Playdoh, coloring books, stickers, pipe cleaners, felt sheets, foam sheets, origami paper, etc.

Please contact Sondra Russell at srussell@chw.org to arrange pick up/drop off of donated supplies.

Thank you!

The benefits of reading to infants is well documented.  It has been found to contribute to the development of their growing brains, giving them a head start towards a lifelong love of reading.  Reading to infants helps language development and positively affects child development in many areas, including bonding of parent and child. 

The Start Right Program of Children's Hospital of Wisconsin- Community Service, provides prenatal and child development education through home visiting services.  Donations of new board books is needed by the Start Right Program.  These books would in turn be given to families served, providing them a tool to use towards guiding their child's development and strengthening the parent-child bond. 

The program is looking primarily for board and picture books, targeted towards children ages 0-5.  Please contact Sondra Russell at srussell@chw.org to arrange pick up/drop off of any donated books.

 

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Thank you for your interest in learning more about the Robyn’s Nest volunteer opportunity.  We appreciate your interest to volunteer to help us toward our goal to strengthen families and to promote overall health and well-being of children. Our agency is the state’s largest, not-for-profit provider of child welfare services.   Our primary mission at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Community Services is to work with families to ensure the safety and well-being of children. 

Our organization hosts a basic needs repository called the Robyn’s Nest that strictly operates through the ongoing assistance of volunteers who help organize and sort incoming donations and help us ran annual drives to ensure needy families receive back to school supplies and Christmas gifts.  The Robyn’s Nest houses new and gently used clothing, hygiene products, infant items, toys, books and other household goods.  Robyn’s Nest provides these items free to the families within our foster care system as well as those identified to have unmet needs through Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin.

Host a “Drive” for the the Robyn’s Nest our onsite basic needs repository. Please contact Lona Long Velasco at 414-231-4820 to learn what items the Robyn's Nest is most in need as it varies from time to time for a variety of reasons.

For the Season of Caring our greatest needs are highlighted in blue. 

Provide donations to the Robyn’s Nest (clothing, shoes, toiletries, diapers, ect.) “Book Drive” (infants, toddlers, elementary and teens) Children's NEW socks and underwear  “Clothing Drive” (for kids of all ages) “Diaper Drive” (include formula, pull-ups, & blankets) Teen gifts and gift cards for Christmas “Toiletries Drive” (shampoo, conditioner, body wash, deodorant, toothpaste and toothbrushes) “Toy Drive” (include books and games too!) “Suitcase Drive” (include duffel bags and backpacks) “Stuff the Bus” (school supplies and backpacks)

The Volunteer Respite Care Program is part of Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin- Community Services. The main goal of the program is to provide community based respite events for families with children with special needs and their siblings to help reduce instances of child abuse and neglect. The program offers respite care to special needs children and their siblings, ages 0-21, in a supervised, safe, and supportive day camp-like setting.  Approximately 65 children attend each event, with each child being matched with a community volunteer, totally 150 attendees.

At each event a snack and lunch are provided to the children and volunteers that join us for the day.  The sponsorship of an event meal would have a significantly positive impact on the program.  This sponsorship could come in various forms- i.e. grocery store gift card, restaurant gift card, coordination and purchasing of the meal from a local restaurant to be delivered to an event site, etc.  If this opportunity is of interest to you, please respond to this post and a program coordinator will be in contact to explore further.

Upcoming Event Dates and Locations:

9/28/19- Wisconsin Lutheran College, Milwaukee, WI

10/26/19- MSOE, Milwaukee, WI

11/9/19- Whitnall High School, Greenfield, WI

12/7/19- Wauwatosa East High School, Wauwatosa, WI

1/11/2020- Divine Savior Holy Angels High School, Milwaukee, WI