The Ann Storck Center provides year-round sports training and competition in a variety of sports for persons with mental retardation. The Center needs volunteers to serve as coaches and general games volunteers. Minimum age: 16 years old

The CAREing Foundation is a drug and alchohol prevention program using arts as the vehicle. There is a need for teens to volunteer approximately one day a week as: -Volunteer Site Artist Mentors to work with the artist once a week at sites around Palm Beach County. (They will find a site near you.) -Volunteer Office Assistant to update the database, answer phones and mail out letters.

Sunset Sudbury is a school where students are free to pursue their own interests and find their own passions all day long. We need responsible teens who like working with young children. You may be helping them with an art project, teaching them to find stuff on the computer, or just hanging out in the garden. Contact us for a visit to see if this is the right environment for you.

Breakthrough’s innovative Students Teaching Students model partners middle-school students with college and high school students who serve as teachers, role models and mentors, providing real-life examples that it’s ‘cool to be smart’. Teaching with Breakthrough is a volunteer experience, but living expenses stipends are provided, along with housing and AmeriCorps Education Awards at select locations. Contact us for more information.

Service with the Special Olympics begins with the Indoor Games in September. Students can help with Bowling competitions on September 18th. In addition, volunteers are needed to help with various sports practices both fall and spring. Volunteers assist coaches through enthusiastic encouragement of the athletes and often participate in physical activity.