Help our LifeWise Academy High School Students Learn Life Skills!

Do you have a passion for working with teens? Do you want to help teens learn new life skills through enrichment activities? Volunteer with our LifeWise Academy program!

LifeWise Academy provides academic enrichment, social emotional support, life skills, and job readiness activities to teens during a critical period of development so that they are better prepared for post-secondary success. Programming is designed to address the barriers that make academic success difficult to achieve which includes limited resources, lack of stability, the absence of meaningful mentor relationships, and the lack of one-on-one attention and guidance. LifeWise Academy staff and community work each day to ensure that our scholars have the resources and the tools they need to ensure post-secondary success for all.

Volunteers are needed to lead Life Skills enrichment sessions once a week to 15-20 teens. Volunteers are needed to instruct a class on Mondays from 5-6pm. Please see a list of potential Life Skills Enrichment ideas below!

• Cooking or nutrition
• How to get a library card and how to use library resources
• How to do laundry
• Shopping for groceries (lists, budgets, coupons)
• Navigation: Forms of transportation, bus, metro, etc.
• How to manage peer pressure
• Finding an apartment
• Social skills: Ways to make friends/healthy relationships
• Basic First Aid
• Basic sewing skills (small mending, buttons, etc.)
• The importance of voting
• Interviewing/Job Etiquette
• Organization
• Car maintenance
• and more!

Please contact Natalie McCollough at nmccollough@lifewisestl.org to learn more about this opportunity!