VOLUNTEER PROGRAM
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Your role as a volunteer is to be a positive social role model. We hope that you will “remember the one” when interacting with our students, meaning you will treat each student like a respected and important adult. |
The Purpose
Thank you very much for your interest in volunteering with ScenicView Academy. Our mission is to help individuals diagnosed with Autism, Aspergers, ADHD, Executive Functioning Deficits, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, or Dysgraphia, or other learning disabilities gain skills that lead to interdependent and fulfilling lives. We are proud of our organization and our mission.
Your role as a volunteer is to be a positive social role model. You will help provide and facilitate positive social skills through interacting with our students. By doing so, you will aid in teaching them skills for an independent life and create positive social and leisure experiences. We hope that you will “remember the one” when interacting with our students, meaning you will treat each student like a respected and important adult.
Volunteering at ScenicView Academy is not only a wonderful and fulfilling opportunity; it will also give you a unique experience in the field. It is also a fun and simple way to volunteer that will change our students’ lives by boosting their self-esteem and confidence. We hope that you will enjoy your experience as much as our students.
Your role as a volunteer is to be a positive social role model. You will help provide and facilitate positive social skills through interacting with our students. By doing so, you will aid in teaching them skills for an independent life and create positive social and leisure experiences. We hope that you will “remember the one” when interacting with our students, meaning you will treat each student like a respected and important adult.
Volunteering at ScenicView Academy is not only a wonderful and fulfilling opportunity; it will also give you a unique experience in the field. It is also a fun and simple way to volunteer that will change our students’ lives by boosting their self-esteem and confidence. We hope that you will enjoy your experience as much as our students.
Volunteer Groups
ScenicView Academy is grateful for all groups interested to volunteer. At this time, we only take volunteer groups for Family Home Evenings. We run Family Home Evenings on Monday nights at 7:30 PM. We typically like to keep groups to 8-10 people. We only welcome larger groups for specific events. Currently, we only accept groups through BYU's Y-Serve. They can be contacted at: scenicview@byu.edu or visit their website here: https://yserve.byu.edu/programs/scenic-view
Individual Volunteers
ScenicView Academy is happy to provide a volunteer experience for school requirements. We especially work with volunteers who are students majoring in recreation therapy, social work, or taking classes requiring volunteer work. We find their professionalism and enthusiasm a tremendous asset to our volunteer program.
Guidelines:
Expectations:
Guidelines:
- Each class that we accept volunteers for has a set number of individuals that are needed for each term.
- Once the volunteer spots are filled those classes will not take volunteers again until the mid-term break.
- The classes that open up again for volunteers at our mid-term will depend on availability. This is determined by the number of volunteers continuing on from the start of the term.
Expectations:
- Please expect to arrive 15 minutes early on your first day of volunteering in order to fill out paperwork.
- You will be expected to be consistent.
- You must keep track of your own volunteer hours.
Volunteer Classes
Below are a list of classes, and their descriptions, that need volunteers. Each class has a specific number of volunteers that are needed each term. Once all spots are filled for a specific class it will appear in RED on the chart below. When all classess are filled we will not take volunteers again until our mid-term break. During our midterm break we will re-open any classess that need new volunteers. Our term starts on January 3, 2017 and we will accept volunteers until classess are full and then again during our mid-term week February 20th-24th.
Classes
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Friendship Building 1-2 pm |
Cooking Class 10-11 am |
KeyTrain 3-4 pm |
Volleyball 1-2 pm |
Resiliency Training Lab 1-3 pm |
Sensory Creations 2-3 pm |
Transition 2 10-11 am |
Transition 1 3-5 pm |
Dating & Relationships 2-3 pm |
Bored to Board 3-4 pm |
KeyTrain 3-4 pm |
Volleyball 1-2 pm |
Power of Me 4-5 pm |
KeyTrain 3-4 pm |
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Transition 1 3-5 pm |
Leisure Education 3-5 pm |
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Social Steps 5-6 pm |
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Transition 2 4-5 pm |
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Social Steps 5-6 pm |
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Transition 3 5-7:30 pm |
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Class descriptions
Transition 1
The primary focus of this course is to teach independence within transportation. Students will be required to attain a bus pass, understand how to read a map, find bus routes and use technology associated with public transit. Upon course completion, students will feel confident in their ability to navigate the community. Students that are a good fit for this class are new students and students who are new to public transit. Independence in transportation is an essential building block in transitioning away from ScenicView and into the community.
Transition 2
The focus of this course is to prepare students to live more independently before moving off campus. Topics covered in the course include community safety, dates to remember, community leisure, apartment needs, apartment applications, living with a roommate, moving out, and talking with your landlord. Students that are a good fit for this class are students who have completed or tested out of Transition 1 or are moving into ScenicView apartments. Upon course completion students will feel prepared to move off campus, live more independently on campus, and be able to identify social and leisure activities outside of ScenicView.
Transition 3
This course is for students who live off-campus. The purpose of the class will be to reinforce residential skills learned at ScenicView in the off campus environment. Additionally students will learn to create social experiences and community leisure activities, as well as navigate new relationships such as; roommate relationships, neighborly relationships, and tenant/landlord relationships.
Social Steps
Using our social skills textbook, Bridges We Build, and a variety of activities and modalities, we identify and practice various social skills.
KeyTrain
Our online computerized program, KeyTrain, is designed to help students prepare for higher ed coursework, vocational paths and functional life skills by learning basic math, pre-algebra and reading comprehension strategies using realistic problems.
Sensory Creations
Students will have a sensory profile done on them and will be making sensory tools that will be helpful to their sensory needs according to their sensory profile. They will have opportunities to create a kit of items personally helpful for them.
Volleyball
Students will learn the rules and basic techniques of volleyball. They will be able to play proficiently by the end of the term. Each first half of the classes will be purely instruction time and the second half of each class will be play time.
Resiliency Training Lab
This lab focuses on implementing Why Try interventions while working on social skills.
Leisure Education
This group aims to help students reach their leisure goals whether they are living on or off campus. The goal of the group is to help students become aware of leisure opportunities that are around this area of Utah County so that when they leave ScenicView, they can continue to live full, enriching lives.
**Volunteers should have their own transportation. We will be doing most of this class off-campus**
Bored to Board
Students will have opportunities to participate in social games with volunteers, students, and staff to improve social skills as well as enhance positive leisure skills.
Friendship Building
Students will participate in different activities that will help them practice skills that will help them to build more meaningful friendships with others. Conversation skills, feedback skills, and other social skills will be addressed.
Dating and Relationships
Students will learn how to date others, including hygiene, greeting, approaching others, qualities to have in order to succeed in dating, and how to build and maintain appropriate romantic relationships.
The Power of Me!
Students will engage in discussions and activities that are centered around self-empowerment and how self-empowerment allows one to create stronger connections with others.
The primary focus of this course is to teach independence within transportation. Students will be required to attain a bus pass, understand how to read a map, find bus routes and use technology associated with public transit. Upon course completion, students will feel confident in their ability to navigate the community. Students that are a good fit for this class are new students and students who are new to public transit. Independence in transportation is an essential building block in transitioning away from ScenicView and into the community.
Transition 2
The focus of this course is to prepare students to live more independently before moving off campus. Topics covered in the course include community safety, dates to remember, community leisure, apartment needs, apartment applications, living with a roommate, moving out, and talking with your landlord. Students that are a good fit for this class are students who have completed or tested out of Transition 1 or are moving into ScenicView apartments. Upon course completion students will feel prepared to move off campus, live more independently on campus, and be able to identify social and leisure activities outside of ScenicView.
Transition 3
This course is for students who live off-campus. The purpose of the class will be to reinforce residential skills learned at ScenicView in the off campus environment. Additionally students will learn to create social experiences and community leisure activities, as well as navigate new relationships such as; roommate relationships, neighborly relationships, and tenant/landlord relationships.
Social Steps
Using our social skills textbook, Bridges We Build, and a variety of activities and modalities, we identify and practice various social skills.
KeyTrain
Our online computerized program, KeyTrain, is designed to help students prepare for higher ed coursework, vocational paths and functional life skills by learning basic math, pre-algebra and reading comprehension strategies using realistic problems.
Sensory Creations
Students will have a sensory profile done on them and will be making sensory tools that will be helpful to their sensory needs according to their sensory profile. They will have opportunities to create a kit of items personally helpful for them.
Volleyball
Students will learn the rules and basic techniques of volleyball. They will be able to play proficiently by the end of the term. Each first half of the classes will be purely instruction time and the second half of each class will be play time.
Resiliency Training Lab
This lab focuses on implementing Why Try interventions while working on social skills.
Leisure Education
This group aims to help students reach their leisure goals whether they are living on or off campus. The goal of the group is to help students become aware of leisure opportunities that are around this area of Utah County so that when they leave ScenicView, they can continue to live full, enriching lives.
**Volunteers should have their own transportation. We will be doing most of this class off-campus**
Bored to Board
Students will have opportunities to participate in social games with volunteers, students, and staff to improve social skills as well as enhance positive leisure skills.
Friendship Building
Students will participate in different activities that will help them practice skills that will help them to build more meaningful friendships with others. Conversation skills, feedback skills, and other social skills will be addressed.
Dating and Relationships
Students will learn how to date others, including hygiene, greeting, approaching others, qualities to have in order to succeed in dating, and how to build and maintain appropriate romantic relationships.
The Power of Me!
Students will engage in discussions and activities that are centered around self-empowerment and how self-empowerment allows one to create stronger connections with others.
Volunteer Paperwork/Training
Below you will find the documents that need to be reviewed and signed before you start volunteer work here at ScenicView Academy.
Code of Conduct |
Confidentiality Agreement |
Volunteer Agreement |
Remind App Instructions |
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