Be a Life Skills volunteer
The Life Skills Institute (LSI) offers education and activities for
personal and professional development and self-esteem building,
teaching its clients to live successfully and productively. MIFA
Housing Opportunities residents enter the program at any time during a
fiscal year and can remain in residence for up to one year, during
which time they must compete personalized life skills curricula.
LSI
evaluates each client in terms of education, work readiness, literacy,
family psycho-social well-being, finances, nutrition and health, and
parenting skills. The program focuses on improvement in the areas of
money management, gaining and keeping successful employment, preparing
for home ownership, effective parenting, and healthy lifestyle choices.
Work with parents
Volunteers play a large part in helping families in MIFA Housing
prepare to live successfully and productively after they graduate from
the program. Volunteers can serve as mentors for parents or teach
classes to groups of parents. Some classes include:
Financial literacy
Parenting
Healthy lifestyle choices
Home ownership
and more!
We are open to your teaching a class about something that you are
passionate about, so if you believe you can help, please get in touch!
Contact Tonya Crowder at (901) 525-7766 or
tcrowder@mifa.org.
Work with children
With up to 180 children living in MIFA Housing at any given time, the
need for programs for children is great. Children take part in
activities at the Life Skills Institute while their parents take
classes. Opportunities for volunteers include childcare, education, cooking classes, art classes, and
others.
Requirements
A partner of the Life Skills Institute offers expertise to the program
or our clients. These partners may be mentors who work one-on-one with
clients in transitional housing for homeless families, teachers or
guest lecturers in Life Skills classes, or coaches for families working
to improve their lives. Volunteers should be able to commit to the Life
Skills Institute for a prolonged period.
If you would like to volunteer, please fill out our volunteer application.
To learn more about our other volunteer opportunities,
click here.