Volunteer as a YELLS Service Coach and become a part of a movement of service with limitless impact. Our Marietta YELLS (Youth Empowerment through Learning, Leading, and Serving, Inc.) Mentoring Program youth are working hard to change our world, and they need your help! Our high school “Bigs” and the elementary “Littles” they mentor are implementing 3 large-scale, youth-led service initiatives.
We’d love to have your involvement as we put our plans into action! We are looking for three to six adult volunteers to help coach our youth through this process beginning this Saturday, November 5th, and continuing on the first Saturday of each month through the school year. As a Service Coach with YELLS, you will help teens develop life-long skills as you guide them to shape their community through service. Coaches assist with project management and coach youth with tasks such as writing proposal letters, meeting with business and community leaders for support, volunteer recruitment, budget creation, and more. You don’t need expertise in these areas, but just a passion to serve and the willingness to help keep our youth on track.
Service Coach responsibilities include:
- Attend First Saturday monthly work sessions (9:00 am – 1:00 pm ) and actual service initiative implementation day(s)
- Provide guidance in between meetings through weekly correspondence (emails, phone calls, or meetings – flexible based on your availability)
- Help coach Bigs to keep up with project planning tasks and provide guidance and assistance where needed
Bigs have spent the last few months conducting a Community Needs Assessment, and have selected the following three service initiatives, each of which needs one to two Service Coaches:
- Franklin Fair Block Party: The Franklin Fair has become an annual tradition and neighborhood favorite ever since our YELLS Bigs and Littles launched it in 2012. This year, our youth plan to make it bigger and better than ever!
- Franklin Gateway Soccer Tournament: Building on the excitement of Atlanta United’s new training facility coming to Franklin Gateway, Bigs and Littles will use soccer to bring neighbors together for a competition between Franklin apartment complexes.
- Parents’ Night Out: Our YELLS families work hard, and our Bigs and Littles want to give parents a chance to relax and have fun by inviting their Franklin Gateway children to play one weekend night each month while parents enjoy a night out.
Monthly First Saturday coaching sessions will take place at our YELLS Community Action Cafe location on Franklin Gateway. If interested in serving, please contact Laura Keefe at Laura@YELLSinc.org or 678-895-2854 for additional details.
