Family Friendly Opportunities 

Families play a critical role in volunteering at JFS. Learn how your family can make a difference for those in need in our community below. 

Family Service Days offer families and children increased opportunities to volunteer and make a difference. These shifts will take place around school breaks/days off or in the evenings.  

Please check back here for future available dates. 

Weinberg Food Pantry Monthly Evening Volunteer Opportunity

The JFS Weinberg Food Pantry assists individuals and families facing hunger and food insecurity. For some, the pantry helps weather an emergency; for others, it provides supplemental food to make ends meet without sacrificing a family’s health and well-being. 

Sort and pack food, help clients select items, and assist with other vital tasks.   

Every month on the last Wednesday from 3:45 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. at JFS 3201 S. Tamarac Drive

Ages 16 and older to volunteer on your own. Ages 12-15 with an adult.

Current volunteers - please have Team Lead contact Renee Newhouse at rnewhouse@jewishfamilyservice.org.

Refugee Resettlement Support Teams 

Volunteers who work directly with refugee clients typically go to the client’s house once a week to provide support and information. For many new refugees, this becomes their first U.S. friendship with someone outside their community. Many of the connections made when we match volunteers with refugees become deep and long-lasting relationships that are equally meaningful to both parties.    

The Support Team program matches groups of volunteers with a refugee family to support them in the refugee resettlement process. Groups consist of 2-6 members and work directly with a family to assist them in completing specific tasks. Examples of these tasks include help using public transportation, grocery shopping, ESL tutoring, and introducing clients to their surrounding neighborhood. We ask for a time commitment of approximately 3 to 5 hours per week for around 6 months.    

At this time, we are only accepting already formed groups, however we will be opening this program up to individuals in the future. You are welcome to apply as an individual, but it may take some time before we are ready to process your application.    

We ask that you only fill out ONE application per group. Each group is required to have a Team Lead who will be the primary contact with our Volunteer Services staff. Please have your team leader fill out the application.  

Background check, proof of auto insurance, and driver’s license are required.  

This is a great opportunity for families. Children can volunteer as a member of the support team with a parent or guardian. Parents must go through the vetting process.  

Current volunteers - please have Team Lead contact Marissa Greene at mgreene@jewishfamilyservice.org. 

Justice Necessary Volunteer Opportunity

Justice Necessary works to imagine and implement systemic and sustainable ways to address hygiene poverty in our community. Together with their partners, like JFS, they deliver personal care products to address immediate needs and create structures to ensure reliable access to essentials for our neglected neighbors. 

Volunteers assemble female hygiene kits that help women in the community with this basic need. 

Period kits are bundled and prepared for distribution.  

Boxes of materials can be picked up at JFS and taken offsite to be assembled, then returned to JFS. 

Current volunteers - please have the Team Lead contact Renee Newhouse at rnewhouse@jewishfamilyservice.org.