Opportunities

Programs at Roberti Community House are only successful with the help of many generous volunteers. By offering your time at RCH, you will not only have the opportunity to see the immediate impact of your contributions, but you will make connections with other like-minded people. For those high school and college students volunteering in our Afterschool Program, we take time after working with the community youth to reflect on the connections made, hearing perspectives from volunteers from different schools, and offering input to improve the program. Let’s work together to make Roberti Community House a welcoming place!

Afterschool Program

Make connections and build relationships with and offer positive role modeling for community kids. Help with homework and reading assignments, make crafts and art projects, play games, lead group in making snacks and recipes.

Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:00-5:45

Sewing

Come support and encourage our community, both adults and kids, to learn basic sewing skills. Learning on one of our donated sewing machines or sharing knitting skills, there are many opportunities to share your talents!

Mondays 9:30-11:30 adult class, Thursdays 4:00-5:30 Afterschool Program

Wellness

We are always looking for new leaders for yoga and other wellness classes. Come share your talents!

Food, Fun & Friendship

Join in and connect with our community friends, Share recipes and nutrition advice.

Wednesdays 9:30-11:30

Slow Cooker Class

Offered in 4-week sessions throughout the year, this class offers healthy cooking and exercise tips. Come lead a class and help exchange ideas on healthy living. Also need kitchen assistants needed to help in food preparation and serving class participants.

Various dates

Summer Volunteer Opportunities

Junior Green Youth Farm

Come join our community kids in this hands-on gardening experience. Cooking, art, and yoga classes as well as various educational field trips are incorporated to highlight healthy lifestyle choices. Team building and group activities are successfully integrated with individual goals so that youth gain self-confidence and inter-personal skills.

Must apply. Tuesday-Thursday 8:30-12. Opportunities available 1, 2 or 3 days a week. Please contact [email protected] or call 224 209-3717 to schedule an interview.

Community Garden

While families visit the Holy Family Food Pantry, we provide a fun distraction for the kids out in the community garden. We help engage them in planting and caring for the garden, provide crafts, and offer samples of foods from the gardens.

Tuesdays 10:00-1:00

Junior & Master Chefs

Help students prepare a different food item (or recipe) each week then enjoy the meal together. Volunteers needed for food prep, student assistance, and clean up.

Tuesdays 12:00-1:30, Thursdays 12:00-2:00

Summer Reading & Math Camp

Help lead community kids of all ages in activities and crafts related to various reading themes and math levels.

Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:00-3:00

Windy City Farm Lunches

Work alongside community members to help prepare lunches for twenty-five to thirty students and staff at the nearby Green Belt Program. Lunches highlight a different fresh vegetable each week.

Mondays 9:00-11:00

Special Programming

Roberti Community House is excited to offer special programming to kids and families in the community. Events will vary and will be posted on our website – so check back often! Always seeking volunteers, individuals or groups, to share their talents – call to discuss planning a special program.