Volunteer Opportunity Details:

Be a youth worker for the Excel Program, you can be deployed in our office helping with administration, development, or youth work.

Since 1996, GDS has empowered more than 500 teens to make unprecedented changes through a comprehensive therapeutic program of educational and personal guidance, practical skills, and positive peer interaction. The core mentorship program is enhanced by individual and group counseling, psychotherapy, and crisis intervention.

Annually GDS initiates its teens at Camp Excel in Upstate New York where they begin a process of healing without feeling threatened by
the rampant negative influences in their neighborhood. After bonding at Camp Excel, the teens return prepared to attend our after-school program, where they set and achieve personal goals through the innovative Reach Your Potential behavior modification model, which rewards teens for improving academic achievement, school attendance, and social behavior.

Volunteers must contact the office, complete an application, be interviewed by the clinical staff, submit an updated medical form, and have a background check.

This opportunity is sponsored by: Growth & Development Services, Inc.

This volunteer opportunity is available to the following types of volunteers Group/Corporate Groups Welcome Senior Citizens Welcome We need volunteers who are free at these times Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Morning X X X X Afternoon X X X X Evening

Contact Person: Greg Fuchs, Assistant Director, (212) 740-7040, (email) View all organization contacts

Address:

216 Fort Washington Avenue New York, NY 10032 (See a map)

Directions:

We are in Upper Manhattan, in the 168th Street Armory,across from Columbia Presbyterian New York Hospital. Fort Washington is parallel to and one block west of Broadway. We are between 168th Street and 169th Street.   Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: A, C, & 1 Trains 168th Street,   Walk distance (in minutes): 3 minutes

Miscellaneous Information

Borough
	Manhattan
Volunteer Shifts
	Monday through Thursday, 2-6 PM