Form a voluntary mentorship for a child, teenager or young adult in residential youth care
Büro für Bürgerengagement der AWO Kreisverband Köln
- Kids & Teenagers
- Mentoring, Sponsoring & Career Coaching
- Sports & Leisure Activities
About the volunteering opportunity
Our association is looking for approachable, reliable volunteer mentors who would like to meet a child, teenager or young adult at eye level, give them time and build a sustainable relationship. As a mentor, you become part of a stable support system and can help a young person to gain confidence, develop self-esteem and discover new perspectives.
Who are the young people?
- Girls and boys between the ages of approx. 6 and 27
- Children, adolescents and young adults in residential youth care
- Children who want a constant caregiver outside their institutional environment
- Young people who need someone who is simply there - to listen, for joint activities, as a guide on the way to an independent life
Your Tasks
You organize free time with the children (playing, talking, cooking, going on excursions), provide support when questions arise and offer the young people a sympathetic ear.
You do not have a therapeutic mandate - what you need is humanity, empathy, patience, tolerance, presence and reliability. Preparation, support and supervision are provided by our own specialists.
Our services
Our services
- free introductory seminar
- Instruction by specialists
- Service meetings
- Exchange of experience
- Liability insurance
- free excursions
- free events
- Supervision
- Accident insurance
What's needed
For this volunteering opportunity, advanced German skills are required.
- Age (at least) 18 years, preferably 25 - 60 years
- extended certificate of good conduct required
- a stable personality who is firmly established in professional life
- Experience in working with children and young people
- social streak
- open approach to children and young people
Time required
Regularly
Discussed individually
- regular meetings over a long, indefinite period of time
- every 14 days approx. 5-7 hours
Location
Büro für Bürgerengagement der AWO Kreisverband Köln
The Office for Civic Commitment of the AWO Cologne is a consulting service. People who are willing to volunteer will receive advice and will be placed in organisations that work with volunteers. Further priority will be given to LESEMENTOR Cologne, young volunteers, further education and voluntary refugee work.