By Daily Press staff
If you’ve got some free time, you may want to consider volunteering to tutor and help local students with their homework.
The Santa Monica Tutorial Network will host a recruiting event on Wednesday, Nov. 20, to attract more volunteers in the community to help local students. The fair is scheduled between 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. at the Santa Monica YWCA, 2019 14th St.
The network is a group of private and public service providers, and agencies working together to strengthen homework and tutorial programs in the community by recruiting and training volunteers, share resources and make referrals.
The recruitment fair will offer interested persons an opportunity to meet with different community agencies to learn about the rewards of being a volunteer tutor/homework helper in academic areas like reading, writing and math. Volunteers are needed to work with students of all ages during their school day and in after-school programs located at the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Monica, the Police Activities League, Pico Neighborhood Youth Center, Virginia Avenue Park and YWCA.
After the recruitment fair, each organization will contact interested volunteers about further opportunities. Some agencies may require a minimum requirement commitment of time and because volunteers are working with youth, a volunteer must have a criminal background check.
“Being a volunteer has been a rewarding experience,” said Harriet Cutler, a tutor for four years through Wise America Reads program at Roosevelt Elementary School, PAL and the school district summer intervention program.
“I am helping children reach their academic potential and providing them with the learning tools necessary to succeed in school and life.”
For more information, call (310) 394- 9871, ext. 452 or (310) 458-8701.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 9, 2002. Read the original PDF.