1:1 Peer Buddy Teen Volunteer -- Vocational Skills

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Would you like to make a meaningful difference in the life of one of our members?

At Inclusive World, we embrace a person-centered approach, striving to understand each member of our neuro diverse community deeply and provide meaningful learning opportunities. To achieve this, we need your support as a buddy member!

Attend weekly classes and serve as a buddy to a single student for the course of the academic year. You'll have the opportunity to learn new skills alongside your student and assist with classwork and homework.

This position is for teen volunteers: age from 13-18

Being a buddy entails:
- Smile and greet your buddies as you start working with them to make them comfortable
- Try and understand boundaries
- As a buddy, encourage and positively motivate your member with class work/project
- As a buddy, you do not do the work for your member
- Lead your member to the right answer by asking questions and letting them think
- Use positive and encouraging language
- Demonstrate courteous, warm and kind behavior in every interaction.
- Maintain eye contact
- Execute the week-by-week plans and activities/projects for the spectrum of members enrolled for an academic session

Open classes:
Small Business, MS Excel (Basic), MS Excel (Intermediate), Scratch Programming, Python Programming, Robotics (beginner), Software Testing (Basic), Software Testing (Intermediate), Conversational Skills, Mobile App development, Website development using Weebly or Wix